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When this week's challenge was announced, I thought great, an easy one with lots of potential. It was only when I went on the prowl for knobs in my house that I found I had a dearth of the things. I do still have a few but they have all but disappeared on modern electronic devices. This is the volume control knob for my trusty portable AM/FM radio. Area shown is about 45mm square.
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Draagbare radio in een strohoed, gemaakt door een Amerikaanse uitvinder. Verenigde Staten van Amerika, Plaats onbekend, 1931.
Portable radio in a straw hat, made by an American inventor. 1931.
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Somewhere around the Worcestershire Beacon, Malvern Hills, Great Malvern, Worcestershire, England, United Kingdom. Date unknown, likely to be in the Summer, circa 1985 to circa 1995.
About this photograph.
This is a British firefighter on an emergency call-out to fight a wildfire on the Malvern Hills.
Only one side of a single hill was on fire, it was not an extreme inferno, but simply a very large patch of fire coving almost half of one side of the slope, and the weather was hot, but not a heatwave.
The Country of Hereford and Worcester Fire Brigade were on a call-out to go up the hills, and attempt to fight the fire. They had managed to get the fire under control, while many people were still hiking and walking all over the hills.
Here, you see the firefighter wearing the late 20th century uniform long before they were replaced with a more modern ones.
Notice that in one of the photos, you can see the helmet did not have a protector visor, because in the old days, helmet designs were very much like that, before the more modern with visors started.
The photo shows one of the firefighters pouring water, using a water gun, on the side of a hill, from a footpath, while people were still going for a walk, as seen in the background.
The photographs were taken with a Minolta X-700 35mm SLR film camera, possibly with a 28-200mm zoom lens, and either a Kodak or Agfa colour film.
I am unable to remember the date, let alone the year, as I have lost my notes, but I know it had to be sometime between 1985 to 1995, during the summer. This is because 1985 is the year I got my X-700 and 1996 is the year I moved to a new home (explained below).
About the event.
At that time, I lived with my parent in a top floor apartment, with a view to the Worcestershire Beacon, thus if there was a fire on the hills, I would see smoke. This is when I decided to grab my camera and head up to the hills to try some photojournalism-style photography.
In those days, health and safety rules were a bit lax, there were people still going for walks up and down the hills even when the firefighters were trying to get the fire under control.
There weren’t any police officers trying to get people off the hills, and the civilians were simply going for a walk, this was why I was able to freely move around and try to take some shots of the firefighters.
The colour shots were sent off for developing and printing, as I only develop and print black and white myself.
About 30 years later, the prints were scanned to the computer, using a Brother A3 multi-function printer/copier/scanner/fax machine, so I could upload them to my Flickr Photostream.
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Lizabeth Scott says “It plays where you play!”
“If there’s a whisper of a signal in the air, count on this extra-power portable to pick it up. Pulls in distant stations beyond the range of most portables, with full volume and tone . . . owes its super power to an improved high-gain Ferrocore Antenna. Plays AC, DC, or on batteries . . . from $29.95 to $49.95” [From the ad copy]
It really is staggering when you put it in perspective. In 1953, a portable radio was cutting-edge technology — a marvel of miniaturized tubes, clever antenna engineering, and sleek styling. That $30–$50 price tag, equivalent to $350 to $580 in today’s money, represented a serious household investment, much like buying a smartphone today.
Radios were the gateway to music, news, and drama. Having one you could carry to the beach or the park was revolutionary. Companies like Westinghouse emphasized the “long range” reception and Ferrocore antenna as proof of innovation. Linking the radio to Lizabeth Scott’s Hollywood glamour made it aspirational, not just functional.
Comparing then and now: The 1953 radio was a single-purpose device, AM broadcast only, tube-based, limited battery life. The 2025 smartphone with a similar cost is a multi-purpose device with global connectivity, streaming, GPS, camera, and more – essentially dozens of radios, TVs, and computers in one. What was once a luxury item is now so ubiquitous that we barely notice the miracle of carrying a world of information in our pocket. The technology and cost-to-capability ratio has shifted almost unimaginably in just one lifetime.
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The endorsement by Lizabeth Scott connected the product to contemporary pop culture — she was starring with Dean Martin and Jerry Lewis in the 1953 Paramount Picture “Scared Stiff,” giving the radio extra Hollywood cachet.
“The movie is about the accident-prone busboy Myron Mertz (Jerry Lewis) and his suave nightclub-crooner pal, Larry Todd (Dean Martin), who get caught up in both a gangland slaying and a mystery involving the comely Mary Carroll (Lizabeth Scott). She has just inherited an island castle off the coast of Cuba that her lawyer, Cortega (George Dolenz), insists is overrun with ghosts and zombies. Attempting to save Mary from a mysterious stranger who wants her dead, Myron and Larry sail with her to Cuba.” – Google
Movie trailer: www.youtube.com/watch?v=XDBGV-aferc
A nostalgic black and white photograph from the 1960s in Hungary, depicting a woman sitting outdoors with her dog, sharing a tender moment while a portable radio sits nearby.
I like old radios and I like shortwave, DX, ham-radio;-)
Some of my old travel & portable transistor radios for listening to shortwave and a tablet for more relevant short-wave infos (open: www.dxzone.com - What's On Shortwave right now)
Sony ICF-SW 2001D (current station: 9420 khz - Helleniki Radiophonia - VOG - Voice of Greece - ERA - with a very strong and clear signal here in Austria - I can listen to this great radio station even without extending the integrated antenna)
Sony ICF-SW 7601
Sony ICF-SW20
Sony ICF-SW22
For the case you need more informations about great shortwave-radios in German or English:
Bluetooth-Soundsystem, FM-Radio, USB-Port, Mp3.
Inzwischen habe ich ihn 10 Jahre.
Hinter dem "Kassettenfach" steckt der USB-Port und es ist Platz für kleine 2,5-Festplatten (leider sind nicht alle kompatibel, bzw. man muss sie mit FAT32 formatieren).
CCM helmet from the 1980 US Olympic "miracle on ice" gold medal-winning hockey team. It's on display at the Smithsonian Castle in Washington, DC.
Blogged:
www.welovedc.com/2010/02/16/capitals-hockey-2010-vancouve...
portableradio.edublogs.org/2011/03/02/p-o-v-season-5-epis...
ethiopia
1976
passenger cabin
ethiopian airlines dc-3
part of an archival project, featuring the photographs of nick dewolf
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ethiopia
1976
passenger cabin
ethiopian airlines dc-3
part of an archival project, featuring the photographs of nick dewolf
© the Nick DeWolf Foundation
Image-use requests are welcome via flickrmail or nickdewolfphotoarchive [at] gmail [dot] com
Kofferadio Ilona (Made in GDR) Hersteller: VEB Funkwerk Halle, 1959/60
Leider eine Aufnahme durch das Vitrienenglas, aber es war mir das Wert, da ich solch ein Gerät mal besessen hatte.
(gesehen im DDR-Museum in Pirna)
chiang mai province
northern thailand, 1972
local men with portable radio
part of an archival project, featuring the photographs of nick dewolf
© the Nick DeWolf Foundation
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Taschenradio "Cosmos-M" mit Tasche und Ladegerät für Knopfzellen (UdSSR) war vor 1970 im DDR-RFT-Handel im Angebot.
Remember when the compact cassette ruled the world? Before CDs dominated music, there was the humble compact cassette invented by Phillips in 1962. It was invented as a replacement for reel-to-reel tapes, and initially used in Dictaphones by office staff who dictated letters onto the tape and then passed it to an audio typist to type the letters etc. In 1965 it was adapted for music use and when Dolby added their noise reduction system (Dolby B) in 1968 the sound quality became much better. The introduction of Chrome and later Metal tapes raised the sound quality to that of vinyl. Sony introduced the Walkman cassette player in July 1979 and the rest is history as they say – they went on to sell 200 million worldwide.
This Sanyo unit from the 1980s is 400mm long by 120mm high, boasts Automatic Music Selection System (AMSS) to find tracks, normal, chrome (CrO2) and metal tape compatibility, LW, MW, SW and FM radio, 4-speakers, a timer, individual left and right input level adjustment and volume, built-in stereo microphones, a mic input socket, headphone socket, input and output for other audio devices via phono sockets and output to external 4-8 Ohm speakers. It takes five HP-11 batteries but can be powered from the mains.
The only problem is that I don’t have any cassette tapes!
Erster DDR-Kofferempfänger "RFT 6D71"
Hersteller : Stern-Radio-Berlin (Bj.1952).
Das Antikradio ist noch mit Röhren bestückt und ist wahlweise über Netzt und Akku zu betreiben und verfügt über einen Mittelwellenbereich.
Man beachte die ausziehbare Stahlband-Antenne (Rollmassband) !!
Motorola 56L1 Radio, 1956. This still had the old Eveready batteries in it - I'll have to post a photo of those too. Missing the power cord, so not sure if it works or not.
My Dad was a coal miner and this is a photograph of the radio he used to take down the pit for light entertainment during his piece break. It may even have been my grandfather's radio.
Dansette was a British manufacturer of portable mono record players with a built-in speaker.
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This analogue goodies stood outside Seoul's P'ungmul flea market this past spring - with temps in the minus-10 Celsius range this weekend, they'd be groaning if they were kept outdoors. The radio-phonograph combo looks a little dusty, but with TLC it may sing again... ;-)
A very 1950s photo of Mom being hip with a portable radio and the case to the Voitlander Bessa II with which the photo was taken. As a radio man myself I can tell you that this radio is very, very compact for it's time. It may be a Phillips or a Crosley, I am not sure yet. can anyone help me? I will be uploading the restored version soon. Aha! The radio is........see below!
As advertised in the May 8, 1948 Saturday Evening Post, this is a tube-type AM radio. Transistors and FM became popular in later years.
A very good performing receiver. I've had great listening adventures with this on AM and shortwave. This once served as an RDF (radio direction finder) on a speedboat to find our way home in heavy rainstorm in the middle of the sea with zero visibility. A station located in the hometown was tuned in and we steered the boat in the direction of the strongest signal. The RF gain was set so that the slightest signal fluctuation would show on the meter. At home, the sound on FM is very good when connected to a high-fidelity speaker system.