Who remembers what a transistor radio was?

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I got one for my 12th birthday. You would go to the beach or walk in New York and everybody had the music station or a baseball game tuned in.

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My MIL still has one that she got back in the early 60's. It still works too I think. She keeps it in her end table by her chair because she used to listen to the news on it when the weather got bad and the lights went out.

I remember getting a transister radio when I was 12 years old for Christmas,( I think I still have it but I'm not sure where it is,)

I moved on to a bigger radio later on when I was a teenager.

I loved my transistor radio. I listened intently to the Too 100 of 1968 on WABC with it. Baseball games in the schoolyard. Music at Jones Beach on Long Island.

I had to look it up to see what they were and I have probably seen them before. I just didn't know they had a proper name.

I think those are what I call the wireless.

Some people call them trannies.

We must have walked by each other a few times. Do you remember in 1970 when it was the Heavy 100 of the Year? I used to do Cousin Brucie imitations and ended up embarrassed a few times when people walked in on me (Hyperfocus ). I would get angry if a song I did not like got to number one on the Tuesday night survey show. I think every teen in the New York area did not go to sleep when they were supposed to because they had a transistor radio planted to their ear listening to Chuck Leanord in bed.

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Well, me. Then again, I've been into radio and electronics since I was knee-high to a duck and I've been a radio amateur for nearly forty years.

Feeling old now.....................

got a little portable one when I was about 13, had a larger plug in one at 11 on my bed.

ASpart: did you grow up in Queens? Cousin Brucie is on Sirius Radio Channel 6. I bet you got that imitation down to a tee!

You mean teeeeeeeeeeeeeh.

Grew up in Nassau still there. Don't have Sirius. The man was a genius at communicating with teenagers.

Still in Queens. Work my first job in Nassau. Dan Ingram was great; he grew up in Freeport, I believe.

Yes siree them were the good ol' days. cept Pap said them confounded gadgets were of the Devil, and if I held it up to my ear for too long I'd get a brain tumor.

I certainly do remember what they are. However, being raised in Finland which was considered Eastern Europe politically, I think our transistor radios didn't have all the interesting wavelengths. This is not as bad as it may sound. The Finnish TV, for example, was allowed to send a variety of American TV shows which were keenly watched in the former Soviet Union (close to the border, that is). The situation was bizzarre, but what wasn't in those days?

I used to have one that also got tv audio.

"Bye Now Kemosabe","Roll your bod"

With no friends I spent many hours listing to that station.