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ALEXANDRA Palace ~ 90th anniversary of TV broadcasting coming ~ 2nd November
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Permalink Reply by Richard Albert Watson
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As a kid, I was born in early 1940, I was interested in radios which I usually got from jumble sales and junk shops. The best one that I had had all the wave bands on it including the TV sound channel. From my bedroom window in Palmers Green I had a clear view of the Ally Pally TV Mast and would listen occasionally to the broadcast TV sound. This was in the fifties and we did not have a TV. I wish I could remember the radio model. It was in a brown Bakelite case about 14 inches tall x 9 inches wide with the tuning knob on the right and the volume knob on the left. The backlit dial was behind a curved plastic window between the knobs. You could spin the tuning knob and it would travel from one side of the dial to the other making a jumbled sound of the stations as it spun. had a lot of fun with it. Happy days.
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Permalink Reply by Clive Carter
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Ah, radio nostalgia … bakelite, plastic, knobs and Magic Eyes!
The art deco style is normally associated with architecture. However, was there any wider application to consumer products, than to the façades of pre-war (valve) radio sets?
Here's a collection of some wacky pre-war styles from NZ/Aotearoa.
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I understand there will be events to mark the anniversary and that details will be posted next week on the AP website ~
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Thank you for that, Clive. I will have a look next week