Realy Nice old radio's Rich
it suprize's me that such a young fellow in the boat world has such an interest, that's just too cool.
I grew up in a town in south east Ok. about 2500 population then, just a bit more now, we lived 5 1/5 miles south west of Antlers, Ok. My grandpa traded a battery powered electric fence charger my dad gave him for an old battery powered raidio, that was in 1959 it was not quite as big and pretty as the one's you have, but the battery was about 2ft tall by about 6 or 8" kinda square looking, and an extra battery was stored inside the radio, got no idea what kind it was, but it just had one dial in the middle kinda near the top. It was His radio, and no one else could turn it on, he was always worried about how long the battery would last, but every night, just after dark, he had grandma mix him up a hot toddy, half a glass of corn, and the rest hot water, with a spoon full of sugar, and he listened to Herbert Armstrong.
However ... om Saturday night, he did tune in into clear channel 650 Nashville Tenn. and we got to listen to the grand ole opry, good memories.
We got electricity pulled in a little after that, had a light in both rooms, and dad bought a tv, quite a deal, several people around the area would come to watch it, and Saturday nights was the "wraslin" and one family drove a wagon and team of horses over every sat night with a coal oil lantern on a pole stuck up the front side of the wagon, Gene loved to watch wraslin, he was a scraper, he and grandma would carry on like they was in the ring, grandpa would laugh out loud at her and Gene carrying on and telling them it was fake for tv, but we didn't care, it was all fun.
Thanks Rich for the memories.
