 Museum of Radio and Technology Huntington, West Virginia (update: I've replaced the image with a slight cropped version that I think makes a bit of difference. View the original one here.) Here's a photograph from my outing with Mike Adkins. I've known for quite awhile that the museum was there but I never expected that it was such a fabulous collection of vintage radios, televisions, computers and everything related to broadcast media. If you visit, give yourself several hours to take it all in. Visit their website here. The old radios reminded me of my Grandmother's journal for 1936 where she mentioned on several occassions of sitting in front of the radio on Saturday night. There's something comforting about that, imagining that she was sitting there sewing while my grandfather might have been listening to the show while smoking his pipe. From her entry of August 10th, 1936: 'Daddy's birthday- 36 yrs. Gee! how time does fly. I wrote in and had Lee Moore to sing 'Maple on the hill' for him. He was sitting in front of the radio. How he laughed!....' Maybe we need more 'radio nights' ourselves. Thanks for visiting. Comment (3) | Permalink |
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