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Philco at Mammoth Cave National Park
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05-18-2019, 02:46 AM
I pulled this from MCNP archives it was taken in 1939. Philco was extremely popular here in south central Kentucky specially the mammoth cave area.
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Guide and a young woman standing at a Philco radio in Snowball Dining Room 1939 MCNP.
   
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05-18-2019, 08:45 AM
Very cool!    Never gotten to MC.    Thanks for sharing.
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05-18-2019, 08:01 PM
So cool but never.... I am way too scared of spaces like that..

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05-20-2019, 06:28 PM
Looks like it was in a cave...……Any reception down there?? Blank
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05-20-2019, 09:33 PM
I've been down there, it's 267 feet below ground level. If they got radio reception down there I'd buy everyone lunch. Icon_wink
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05-20-2019, 11:11 PM
Philco claimed it picked up stations down there.
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05-20-2019, 11:17 PM
Westinghouse claimed it also. 
   
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05-20-2019, 11:46 PM
The radio might have been underground but I suspect there was a (really) longwire antenna involved. Icon_biggrin
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05-26-2019, 11:18 PM
Kirk wrote:
So cool but never.... I am way too scared of spaces like that..

Me tooo!! My chest got a little tight just looking at that pic!!
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