[Jayce]

Dad and I decided to visit a family we know to check out some antique tractor parts he had been offered. While there on the old farm, we mentioned our trip up to Mentor, Ohio yesterday to pick up an old radio and remembered one he had stored away in the old milkhouse a couple years back that his wife's relatives had never come around to claim. Apparently it had spent most of it's life in the attic of an old house in town and he said it was pretty filthy and the push-buttons were all broke. He asked if I wanted to see it and I said yes, of course, and what I discovered was a Philco 39-40 console that was indeed filthy, but a definite diamond in the rough. After talking it over with his wife, I nabbed the radio for $60 and even found the mostly intact owner's manual laying inside. After an initial cleaning (sooty with a helping of muddy cat paw prints) it is looking pretty good! Buttons are toast though, as is the cord which fell off.