BUYING A PHONOGRAPH RECORD PLAYER NEEDLE It can be quite complicated finding a needle (also called stylus)for your turntable if you don't have an identifying number for your needle, or the paperwork that...
by Ron Mansfield (eBy ID childhoodradio) Which transistor radios are collectible?Collectors have their own favorite time periods specialties, but generally, collectible transistor radios were made between...
A guide to the market for printed telephone directories Old telephone directories can be hard to find. Most of each edition gets thrown away or recycled. Libraries often keep old local telephone books, but...
You've probably seen them at flea markets and antique malls-- Hand-cranked phonographs. They are often called Victrolas or Grammaphones, both of with are trade names of phonographs that have become an almost...
While novelty radios have been around a long time, it was the 60's and 70's that brought us most Novelty radios. They are still being made today but in fewer styles. Some are figural; some are advertising for...
As a collector of old Victrolas, phonographs gramophones, I want beginners to know there are fake and reproductions being sold by sellers not telling the buyers this or by misrepresenting them as old...
Thomas Edison was one of Americas inventive heroes, and if you search under "Edison" on E-bay you will find an amazing array of Edison paraphenalia. Not bad for a guy that died in 1931! Did he really invent a...
RADIO DRAMA is the form of audio storytelling broadcast on radio. With no visual component, radio drama depends on dialogue, music, and sound effects to help the listener imagine the story. In the early...