Hey Padgett......love those Zenith Trans Oceanic shortwave radios. Amazing in their day. I stick with the smaller transistors for space reasons. Young kids today don't realize how revolutionary it was to carry around your radio in a pocket. In the late 50s an AM transistor radio was selling for the equivalent of a month's rent.

 

In the late fifties I worked at a company that made transistor radios, TVs etc, by some weird coincidence the apprentices were all walking around with radios made from purloined company parts because they could not afford the real thing. There were lots of capacitors, resistors etc laying around, the transistors were all locked up but they still managed to find themselves liberated.

 

I Would love to see pics of that inside and out!

 

Growing up on the coast of Florida it seemed like every household had two things: an emergency generator and a Zenith TrandOceanic both in case of hurricane and I spent many hours BCBDXing late at night because those big Wavemagnets(c) really worked.

Later a big transistor model accompanied me on a tour in SEA. So late in the last century I set out to find out everything there was to know about them.

Today there are far better/smaller communications receivers around, I have a Roberts R809 I bought in the UK for travel but I still have at least one of every TO model amd a couple of companions. Kind of lost interest when my hearing declined and found other hobbies.

By that is why the fixation on TOs (and Hickoks). If tubes come back, I'm ready. Also steam engines...

 

Hi Greg,

The '37 is in re-pair, I have new aluminum skin all the way around, everything but the two top end caps, and a new floor, otherwise, it's gutted. Attached are a couple of pictures I have of it on my computer. I also saw a couple of pictures of the Airlight and one of the '36 that I thought was good.

Dave

 

I found a couple more pictures of the '37... a lot of rivets on that gal, but the new aluminum is exactly like the old, even down to the last rivet.

 

I collect and drink bourbon. Some of it is rare or hard to find stuff, some is old.

I will try to post a photo of the bar I made in the basement, but needless to say the 9 foot x 2 foot back bar is completely covered and I have already moved several boxes of spirits to storage

 

i know we have other avid golfers on the forum but any golf ball collectors??

when i was growing up... friends and i would search the pond on the 12 hole at the muirfield g.c. in dublin. at 12 or 13 years of age ... the coolest & most popular ***** were the multi-colored ping ***** (produced in the late 70's & 80's)...

i have been collecting rare golf *****, solid black nike ones & pings... which come in over 180 different color combos... the 2 colored ***** fetch the bigger bucks... some of the rarest combos can go for over $1,000 a ball... nutz...

any others out there with the same interest?

thought i would share some pics of the goodies...

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a couple years back i scored the mother of ping golf ***** ... paid $31 (seller must of not known what he had)... purchase from a blurry picture of several old golf ***** in a lot.

an extremely rare 'mustard/brown' key chain ball - only a few seen by the larger collectors.

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and the golf ball is worth $1,100 + in the ping golf ball world according to several major collectors.

it's always fun looking for the color combos i don't currently have after collecting for many years!

i love seeing what others collect too...

 

Nice collection Andrew, I like the way you displayed them too. That's the cool thing about collecting, you can collect almost anything. When I was in eight grade I had a pen collection, some really nice pens too, but I have no idea what happened to them. I guess the old saying, "men are gatherers and women are nesters" is true, we love the hunt.

Dave

 

I have been into restoring pinball and arcade machines from the late 70's


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That looks like a collector's room, I wish you were close by, I have some old juke boxes you might be able to fix. Nice collection Travish!

Dave

 

Terrific idea Gary. I notice you don't have a crossfire or Fontana patch in that quilt. Do you need to wear one out or grow to another shirt size?

 

And by the late sixties one could have a pocket sized Transistor radio for the small price of filling the gas tank with a minimum 8 gallons. They gave them away for $0.38 per gallon gasoline.
My dad had a Dino Supreme one he treasured for years.

 

One or the other....whichever happens first

 

I've been collecting model cars (ERTL, AMT, etc...) since the '80's. Have over 60 mainly Mopars including early Vipers, Prowlers, PT Cruisers and even a minivan. Of course there are a bunch of Xfires in the stable. Here's a shot of some in my office....