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Old 04-15-2004, 01:35 PM
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Chick-ogg-o? My folks are from there. I recall the Marathon gas stations as well as Sinclair. Used to have one of the green plastic NY Worlds Fair Dinosaurs too, below is a pic of one from eBay. At that time there were all manner of injection molding machines are various museums---these usually used a sort of molten wax and had a particular smell.

I got a bust of Lincoln's head at the Chicago Museum of Science & Industry and right after it popped out of the machine (still warm and a little soft) I stuffed a pencil thru it's head........"the bullets trajectory" is what I told people. GARSH, I'm sick! LOL

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Old 04-15-2004, 01:37 PM
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From some dusty corner of my memory: "Drive with care, and buy Sinclair"

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Old 04-15-2004, 02:40 PM
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Anthony, you ARE a sick B*st*rd....But I love you, man !! Gimme a beer !! HehHehHehHeh....Yep, Dino was still warmish & a little soft when the Sinclair dude handed him to me- Funny how you can remember nonsense like that all these years later. I can still remember the Disney "It's a Small World" marionettes show-they gave us a 45 record of the song, which I still have somewhere. Paula, I can clearly remember the doctor makin' house calls- & the local cleaners picking up & delivering clothes. We had a little galvanised box outside our back door that the milkman delivered glass bottles of milk into. You'd pull into a filling station & get yr oil & water checked, & yr windshield cleaned. My gran would always rap on the windshield & point out to the guy where he missed a spot. .20 a gallon-By god, for THAT kinda money, they'd BETTER clean the damn windshield !! Who do they think we are, Jay Gould ?!?....Those were the days !! -Sandy G.
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Old 04-15-2004, 03:55 PM
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"Who do they think we are, Jay Gould?"

Heh. My town partly is named after that ba****d.
John PARAmore and Jay GOULD (Railroad tycoons) = Paragould!
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Old 04-15-2004, 05:26 PM
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Well what do you know?

Here's one of those Sinclair radios up for bid right now! That's exactly what mine looked like.

Maybe they're not as rare as I thought...
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Old 04-15-2004, 10:55 PM
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My Grandaddy owned a Sinclair station in Bradenton, Fla. That was in the 60's. He refused to work on foreign "crap" and could still make a living. I would hate for him to see it now, though it would be nice to have him around.
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Old 04-15-2004, 11:13 PM
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My dad worked for Sinclair for about 20 years.

I have a few Sinclair pieces including the radio on auction.
Also have lighters, and a few other Sinclair pieces of his, from his Sinclair days.

He traveled from station to station in his area checking with dealers, then later was a budget analyst, and other jobs, in an area office.
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Old 04-16-2004, 08:24 AM
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I didn't know if anybody would catch the "Jay Gould" reference or not. But, this being Audiokarma, & basically populated by WAY above average intelligence folks, I should have known better. Anyhow, ol' Jay was who my gran was always accusing me of trying to bankrupt-" You're sendin' your poor little daddy to the Poorhouse ! I bet you could bankrupt Jay Gould !!" Y'know, its no wonder I'm so warped.....<grin>- Sandy G.
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Old 04-16-2004, 08:54 AM
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On Transistor Radios

I started collecting transistor radios when I found a Zenith 500 at a garage sale that all the "hawks" had passed up and left sitting for .25. That radio pretty much started me on vintage audio collecting as I kept finding beautiful equipment at the sales and could not pass it up.

I love history and what fascinated me about transistors was the fact that the decision not to put tariffs on them is what eventually handed almost the entire electronics industry to the Japanese. The invention of the miniature tuning capacitor by Mitsui made the shirt pocket size transistor radio possible. Before that, the US made radios were what was called "coat pocket" radios due to their larger size.

There are a few good books on the subject, the best probobly being 'The Portable Radio in American Life" by Michael Brian Schiffer. It covers the entire scope of the development of the portable radio and the section on transistors is very good.

His main point in the book is that "cryptohistory", the rewriting of history by large corporations is rampant in the history of the portable radio, to the point that the CEO of Sony at one point went on TV claiming that Sony produced the first transistor radio, when in fact it was the Regency company and the TR-1. That radio was introduced in November 1954, one month before I was born(!).

The rest is history, as they say.

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Old 04-16-2004, 07:09 PM
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Well, I don't know if this lil' Sony is worth anything, but this was my first transistor radio when I was a kid. It still works, and sits proudly on top of a bookcase now.
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Old 04-16-2004, 09:20 PM
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Here's a radio I had as a kid, some day I suppose I'll get another one just like it.

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Old 04-16-2004, 11:29 PM
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Update: The Ruby has landed

The overall level of quality and workmanship is surprisingly high, easily exceeding my expectations in that regard.

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Old 04-16-2004, 11:47 PM
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Here's another view of the Ruby, showing the original earphone that was included with the radio.
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It's very cool that the earphone matches the radio !
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Old 04-17-2004, 12:04 AM
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It's very cool that the earphone matches the radio !
The color was one of the main reasons I wanted this particular radio.

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