Americana "last gasp" AM only transistor radio

[Sandy G]

I have the Tooob era equivalents of these Bad Boiz-a couple of pre-war Arvin sets-One has 2 tubes, & the other one has 3. They were salesmen's or travelers' sets, designed to be thrown in a suitcase, & they do a reasonable job of picking up the local Angel Modulation station in whatever town you found yrself in. They were both under $12, I think, new, so even back then if they got "borrowed" or lost it wasn't a big deal. The mighty 2-tube special, I think, ALMOST picked up WLAC, 1510 in Nashville one night...