I have two new projects to work on this summer. The first is a “transistor radio” made by RCA Victor – RCA , of course, short for Radio Corporation of America – sometime around 1962. I always liked ...

KCAL Old Time Radio recreates radio shows from the 1940s and 50s and performs them live. Before television shows like ours, families used to gather around the radio and listen, not just to music, but ...

My most prized possession was once somebody’s trash. It’s a blocky, black radio that was manufactured in 1941, the year my father was 12 years old. I snatched it from the county landfill when I was 13 ...