[Scott D]

Very cool guys,

Here's mine... a Bendix 676D AM/SW radio phonograph.  Here's the kicker.  My mom loved to "antique" every piece of dark wood furniture with an antique white paint with gold trim.  She thought it made the beat up stuff look classy. 

When I was in high school, I came home one day after football to see my Dad swinging an ax into the radio cabinet. He said it was old, didn't have room and was headed to the dump. I pleaded with him to stop and got a brief stay of execution.  I took the radio, glass, and speaker out... then he went back to work.  

I listened to the BBC and all sorts of stations til finally died.  I buried it the back of my closet in a box.  There it remained safe and sound for years, until I was old enough (and smart enough) to recap it.

Some years later I found the same radio (un-axed - LOL) in Hayward, California and bought it for 5 dollars.  It sits in my great room, the radio that got me started.