10-28-2009, 08:59 AM
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I just bought this from a thrift store here in San Diego. I paid just under the original price! I was thrilled to learn that it was designed by Norman Bel Geddes when I looked it up here! My buddy who helped me move it said he remembered seeing a some kind of tag inside the cabinet with his name on it. I didn't plug it in, but everything looks original and pretty good! The radio unit is gigantic, and one of the tubes is the biggest I've ever seen! One day when I move it to a bigger place, and have someone there that knows something electronically, I'll plug it in... There's nothing on AM radio here in San Diego anyway! FM for that matter! I thought maybe I could fix it to play my ipod through the speaker and put a night light in the cabinet to light up the dial for effect to play the era's music and radio shows from it. It's a beautiful cabinet in pretty good shape! The only noticeable problem is the torn speaker cloth. The cabinet is all solid (and heavy!)... the only veneer is that part in the front with the deco design.
Someone brought in a bunch of old Radios and Phonographs from the '30s and '40s. One of the others that sold was a chairside model Philco! I just don't have room for this kind of thing! As it is my 112 went right to a storage unit! This is the chairside Philco that was sold already:
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And they seemed to thing that these two went together... I'm not sure... but I bet you guys know! They said one was a radio and the other some kind of amp/speaker or something...
There are still more junky ones left like this Zenith and Silvertone:
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...and a couple of others that aren't pictured... I remember one was a (looked like) '40s tabletop Philco with a very art deco grille.
I'm not intending to "advertise" ... but these units are still sitting in this thrift store waiting for someone to love them! If anyone is interested in these, I'll gladly give you the location.
I just bought this from a thrift store here in San Diego. I paid just under the original price! I was thrilled to learn that it was designed by Norman Bel Geddes when I looked it up here! My buddy who helped me move it said he remembered seeing a some kind of tag inside the cabinet with his name on it. I didn't plug it in, but everything looks original and pretty good! The radio unit is gigantic, and one of the tubes is the biggest I've ever seen! One day when I move it to a bigger place, and have someone there that knows something electronically, I'll plug it in... There's nothing on AM radio here in San Diego anyway! FM for that matter! I thought maybe I could fix it to play my ipod through the speaker and put a night light in the cabinet to light up the dial for effect to play the era's music and radio shows from it. It's a beautiful cabinet in pretty good shape! The only noticeable problem is the torn speaker cloth. The cabinet is all solid (and heavy!)... the only veneer is that part in the front with the deco design.
Someone brought in a bunch of old Radios and Phonographs from the '30s and '40s. One of the others that sold was a chairside model Philco! I just don't have room for this kind of thing! As it is my 112 went right to a storage unit! This is the chairside Philco that was sold already:
[Image: http://i160.photobucket.com/albums/t183/...2310-1.jpg][Image: http://i160.photobucket.com/albums/t183/...2311-1.jpg]
And they seemed to thing that these two went together... I'm not sure... but I bet you guys know! They said one was a radio and the other some kind of amp/speaker or something...
There are still more junky ones left like this Zenith and Silvertone:
[Image: http://i160.photobucket.com/albums/t183/...2307-1.jpg][Image: http://i160.photobucket.com/albums/t183/...2312-1.jpg]
...and a couple of others that aren't pictured... I remember one was a (looked like) '40s tabletop Philco with a very art deco grille.
I'm not intending to "advertise" ... but these units are still sitting in this thrift store waiting for someone to love them! If anyone is interested in these, I'll gladly give you the location.
