Second-hand Second Hand Rose

[Bob Fitzke]

In the late 30s my very own bedroom "radio" consisted of a crystal set with
about 60 feet of copper aerial between my bedroom and the garage.

Bob

Scott Swanson wrote:

> On Sat, 4 Mar 2000, Roger Shuy wrote:
>
> > I remember The Baby Snooks and Daddy show too; listened to it often when I
> > was a boy, sometimes with my radio under the covers so that my parents
> > would think I was asleep after my bedtime. Older people (like me) have
> > told me that they played the same trick on their parents.
>
> Just curious, and completely off-topic, but in pre-transistor days wasn't
> the common household radio at least the size of a toaster? I am also
> curious as to approximately when the radio became inexpensive enough that
> youngsters would have one of their own in their bedroom? My father's
> stories of listening to radio seem to always feature the family sitting
> around a large set in the living room. (My grandfather always liked to
> tell the story of the first radio in this small Montana community - the
> proud owners invited several guests in to their home in order to show it
> off. The assemblage were quite impressed to hear a signal from a Chicago
> station. One man stated wisely: "Imagine it coming all that way; and
> against the wind, too!")