Ray Likar was instantly drawn to the 1947 short wave radio at the tag sale. When Likar found out the owner was asking only $25 for the unit, he snatched it up. "As soon as I turned it on, the Yankee ...

You are able to gift 5 more articles this month. Anyone can access the link you share with no account required. Learn more. AUBURN – Back in the late 1940s, they weren’t so unusual, radios with ...

A single radio from high school was all it took for La Palma resident John Eng to hunt down the 28 radios now displayed at the OC Fair’s Collections — plus over 200 others in his home. Looking at the ...

Where would mankind be without obsessions? Denver's Bill Cawlfield admits he has one. Over 25 years, Cawlfield has assembled one of the largest collections of old radios in the world. From the ...

Elegant wood-encased tube radios that look like antique furniture. Plastic-encased transistors that mimic cigarette packs, Coke bottles, measuring tapes and spray cans of WD-40 along with so many ...

Maybe it’s a hand-me-down from an elderly relative. Maybe you found it at a flea market, or it has been hidden in the attic for far too long. It could be an anonymous-looking black box with big dials ...

Tom Carlson remembers when the radio bug first hit him: He was staying at his grandfather's cabin when he saw a 1963 Zenith radio high up on a shelf. Carlson recalled that he was either 10 or 12 when ...

The Zenith Z-1000 Stratosphere was Zeniths top of the line and marketed as a rich man’s radio. It sold for $750, which was higher than the average price of a new car in the mid 1930s. The Stratosphere ...

Purchasing, refinishing and selling antique radios is a home based business that can be started by just about anyone on a full- or part-time basis. Antique radios are highly sought-after pieces of ...