I have always wanted to listen to old time radio shows on a console radio with the great sound. I did listen to some Kansas City Athletics baseball games in the late 50′s on my grandfather’s console radio. It was my first time to hear a major league baseball game on a radio.
This is a console radio similar to the one my grandpa had on his Missouri farm back in 1959. I have always wanted to have a working radio like this but they are cost prohibitive.
These radios came from another time but it was a special time when families gathered around their radios to hear such great shows as Gunsmoke, Amos and Andy, Jack Benny and Boston Blackie and many others.
These were truly the good old days when a family would gather around the radio on a cold winter evening and listen to the great old time radio Christmas shows while snow was falling outside.
The days of old time radio may have been gone for the last 47 years but those days will live on in the memories of those of us who remember those days. Even today these same shows can be bought at very nominal prices. I bought 360 Dragnet shows just recently for a total of $7.00.
Televison may have caused old time radio to vanish from the airwaves as radio converted to an almost strictly news and music format. There have been some attempts to bring back old time radio but it never reached the popularity again that it had in the 30′s, 40′s, 50,s and the first couple years of the 60′s. There were a few shows that went on the air in the 20′s but the sound quality on those shows is nothing compared to the technology of later years of old time radio when the sound was crystal clear. Gunsmoke which came to old time radio in the 50′s in an excellent example of how old time radio improved with the superb sound and the expert sound technicians who recreated the sounds of the wild west so we could enjoy the shows many years after the last gunfighter in the old west had retired.
