This is a Spartan console radio that belonged to my grandmother. My
father bought it for her before he went off to the war (WW2). At the
college I attended, the electronics lab had a huge stash of tubes
which I used to replace the worn-out ones. I also refinished the
cabinet and replaced the grille cloth. When I first turned it on, they
were playing big band tunes. For a moment, my wife and I thought we
were in the Twilight Zone. However, the radio had nothing to do with
my present love of Old Time Radio, since at the time, I was unaware
that it existed. My first exposure to OTR was by a cassette of a
Lights Out episode bought at the gift shop of the Chattanooga Choo-Choo.
It rang a bell because I remembered seeing ads in the back of the
Famous Monsters of Filmland magazines I bought as a kid offering LP's
of the show. But it wasn't until after I had a computer and access to
the web that I discovered the huge variety of programs that were every
bit as varied as the TV programs I grew up with. This website was
created to share my growing collection of programs with those, like
myself, who believe that TV will never be able to compete with the
"Theater of the Mind".
June 15, 2008
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The accompanying program histories were borrowed, either wholly or in part, from John Dunning's book "TUNE IN YESTERDAY - The Ultimate Encyclopedia of Old Time Radio 1925 - 1976", in addition to my own opinions and observations.