Radios were a pivotal 20th century phenomenon. Developed initially for wireless telegraphy, they carried voice and music after 1920. Although radios faded in home status as television took hold in the ...

You’d be forgiven for being surprised at the notion that a man who repairs vintage radios was so buried in work that he had to open a shop. After all, it’s the digital age. What even are tube radios?

Something old and something new.

There are lots of things you no longer have in your living room here in 2023. A century ago (or even less) you would likely have had a piano. Even the most modest of families couldn’t do without one, ...

I inherited my grandpa’s old console radio because no one else wanted it. It hadn’t worked for decades. It was slightly beat-up, and somewhat large and heavy. Think NFL player. Well, that’s ...

When La Palma resident John Eng looks at a piece of what some call “dead technology,” he doesn’t think of something that no longer works. Instead, he envisions the devices’ heyday. A curvy Zenith ...

We stumbled upon Steve Johnson’s beautiful collection of radios and couldn’t resist passing it along. Stay tuned to a future issue for a snapshot of his tube testers. All information courtesy Steve’s ...

Long before television there was radio. First tabletops then consoles made their way into the living rooms of Americans. Families would gather around their radios to listen to the nightly news and ...

It was called the “Golden Age of Radio” in the 1940s and 1950s. Although thoughts recall the radio programing of the day when we hear the term, the equipment itself was also “golden,” so to speak.