If you had a radio of your own as a child or teenager, what model was it?

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  1. audiomixer

    audiomixer As Bald As The Beatles

    Sears portable transistor radio.
     
  2. gd0

    gd0 Looney Tunes and Merrie Melodies

    Location:
    Golden Gate
    Mid-60s. Not entirely sure, but I think it was the little guy shown below, identified there as 1R-81.

    Couldn't have been any bigger than 2.5 x 2.5 x 1. At night, from my centralized location in Omaha, I could pull in AM stations from as far away as Denver, Texas, Chicago (WLS!)

    Back then, Sony was this exotic, mysterious, distant entity where magic happened.

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  3. Colin M

    Colin M Forum Resident

    Rented in a package deal with the TV & VCR! An ITT Pinto
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  4. Burt

    Burt Forum Resident

    Location:
    Kirkwood, MO
    I had several radios, but my first "REAL radio" as far as I was concerned was one of these, or a slight variant thereof:
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    Mine was in rough cosmetic condition and the speaker cone was torn, so I threw it out and used a salvaged speaker from a Wollensak projector.
    It was great for both broadcast and shortwave.

    I was about nine.
     
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  5. Erik Tracy

    Erik Tracy Meet me at the Green Dragon for an ale

    Location:
    San Diego, CA, USA
    In the early 70's I had a small portable Westinghouse FM transistor radio in the leather carrying case.
     
  6. sbsugar

    sbsugar Representing Benton County since 2010

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    Go ahead - laugh it up.....


    NJB
     
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  7. chodad

    chodad Hodad

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    USA
  8. PaulKTF

    PaulKTF Senior Member Thread Starter

    Location:
    USA
    The Smurfs are awesome! I had a sandbox with a Smurfs protective cover. :)

    There were a bunch of other Smurfs radios released apparently.

    http://bluebuddies.com/Smurfs_Smurf_Radios.htm
     
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  9. Aftermath

    Aftermath Senior Member

    Model 850-1447 AM Transistor Clock Radio

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    This little box had amazing reception. I lived in Santa Barbara California, about 100 miles west of Los Angeles, and remember tuning in the following stations late at night in the 1970s:

    KOMO : Seattle Washington
    KSL: Salt Lake City, Utah


    Also tuned these in (barely), which I could scarcely believe, but may have done so off my dad's Marantz receiver through the house antenna:

    KGYN: Guyman Oklahoma
    WWL: New Orleans, Louisiana
    WLS: Chicago, Illinois
     
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  10. Subvet

    Subvet Forum Resident

    Location:
    Southern Maine
    I had a small AM radio that I mainly used to listen to Jack Buck announce Cardinal baseball games. I've no idea what model.
     
  11. Obtuse1

    Obtuse1 Forum Resident

    Location:
    Florida
    I had a few...a small GE AM/FM Transistor radio, and a GE clock radio (this model):


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  12. PaulKTF

    PaulKTF Senior Member Thread Starter

    Location:
    USA
    That's cool that they made the numbers neon!
     
  13. forthlin

    forthlin Member Chris & Vickie Cyber Support Team

    No idea what the brand was, but it came from Western Auto and was $4.00. I got it for my 9th birthday in 1963...the day JFK was shot. Man I wanted one of those rocket radios. A neighbor had one he bought at a neighborhood drug store, but they never had them in stock again.
     
  14. Obtuse1

    Obtuse1 Forum Resident

    Location:
    Florida
    ...also had a couple of "boomboxes".

    A GE Superadio w/cassette (Great tuner.....and rechargeable!):

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    ...and this Sears boombox (no pic, but I do have a scan of the manual):

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  15. Thrakintosh

    Thrakintosh Well-Known Member

    Location:
    Hudson Valley, NY
    A Hallicrafters S-120 and a GE clock radio like Ntotrar's. Shortwave radio had almost as much an effect on my taste in music as my parents' Beatles and Moody Blues albums did. :cool:

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  16. Jamey K

    Jamey K Internet Sensation

    Location:
    Amarillo,Texas
    I was a really little guy, when I got my first one. We got it at the Green Stamps store, and it had to be upside down, to play. My transistors and such, all
    came from Radio Shack.
     
  17. geo50000

    geo50000 Forum Resident

    Location:
    Canon City, CO.
    A circa-1962 Zenith battery operated clock radio my older brother bequeathed to me in 1966;
    I used to electrical-tape it to my bike's handlebars.
     
  18. Vidiot

    Vidiot Now in 4K HDR!

    Location:
    Hollywood, USA
    Proving once again that everything is on the net, I just found a photo of the radio I listened to almost every day from about 1965-1972 or so:

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    Every major hit of the 1960s, I heard on this GE portable radio. God knows where it wound up, but it lasted a good long time. Just an AM radio.
     
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  19. Mal

    Mal Phorum Physicist

    SONY DIGICUBE (silver):

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  20. Michael

    Michael I LOVE WIDE S-T-E-R-E-O!

    back in the 60's I always had a pocket AM radio with me...went through a few. Don't remember the models but they were Panasonic IIRC.
    I had a wonderful AM/FM Radio Cassette recorder that I would love to own again...NEVER see it for sale anywhere...It's from 1970/71?
    PANASONIC RQ-448S
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  21. llama

    llama Forum Resident

    I had a zenith racetrack style Bakelite tube am radio. With markers for the civil defense stations in case I needed to duck and cover. I still have it.
     
  22. PaulKTF

    PaulKTF Senior Member Thread Starter

    Location:
    USA
    Just remember to hide under your desk!

     
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  23. telliott

    telliott Senior Member

    I had that one too. Loved the fold up design.

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  24. BrewDrinkRepeat

    BrewDrinkRepeat Forum Resident

    Location:
    Merchantville NJ
    My dad gave me one of these when I was five or six to listen to Phillies games (and the school closing numbers on snowy days!):

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    My first "real" stereo was a Sanyo AM/FM/Cassette combo, long since tossed, not sure of the model# (I've been trying to find it on the interwebs for years now with no luck).
     
  25. chervokas

    chervokas Senior Member

    I used to hang one of these from the handlebars of my bike!
     
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