Home Forums Hunting & Shooting Hunter's Campfire I Miss the Old Transistor Radios.

I still can’t believe Neil Peart is dead.

I have an old Grundig version of your radio. Still works perfect.

I liked those little TRs - they were handy and very mod for a while - had a few oer time. Some companies had them made for advertising - I used one that was made to look just like a Sunoco gasoline vending pump, blue and yellow with all the proper lettering, etc. Still have that one.

Don't forget to put the battery on your tongue for a real throw back moment.

Got radios all over the house, a Sangean MMR-88, a GE Super Radio, a repro Grundig, and some others. One little Sony uses a single AA, lasts a good while. The Sangean has solar and a crank, plus a rechargeable battery, and even a flashlight. Lot of radio for about $50 and the sound, especially voice, is good.

Used to pick up old floor models when I was young. One Philco had electric tuning: a motor turned the dial to presets.

Fred Gwynne is buried in an unmarked grave in a cemetery adjacent to my nephew's property in MD. When we visited him last year we walked thru the graveyard and he said, "Oh, the guy who played the judge in "My Cousin Vinny" is buried here in an unmarked grave. I said, "What!! Herman Munster is buried here!" He replied, "Herman who?" Ah, the generation gap.

Apparently Fred was a humble and unassuming man who didn't want his grave in this small cemetery to pose a problem for them with fans seeking it out and leaving crap. Well because it's unmarked, now people go there to try to figure out where he's buried.

Got one of those little shirt pocket transistor radios for a birthday present in the early 60's. It was from Western Auto and I forgot what name they used on their radios, ( Revelation ? maybe?). Worked pretty well and I had it quite a long time. Nowadays I have a couple of the small pocket models from Radio Shack. One's about 10 years old and still going good. It's now discontinued and I just got the newer shirt pocket model. It's even smaller, runs on two AAA batteries for a claimed 50 hours and puts out high quality sound like a much bigger radio. Also has digital tuning with presets, as digital tuning is much better than trying to fine tune that station dial just right all the time. They list for 24 bucks at radioshack.com Catalog Number 1201849. For such a tiny radio it's impressive so far, as I just got it a few days ago. Also has a flexible antenna embedded into the wrist strap that I like because those old extendable metal antennas are pretty fragile. Never saw an antenna like that before but it works good.