Too expensive, unobtainable or critical part. However, also finding chassis at the shops, less the cabinets.įrom my uncles shop which was moved, twice the rogue chassis was the result of a radio owner who abandoned the repair for what ever reason. Having cleaned radio technician estates as well as going to country auctions, I have found my share of "gutted" cabinets. It's a shelf queen, I have not had the time to work on it. When she passed my brother gave it to me as he was moving into the home. My mom stored it rather than throwing it out. What year model was the Panasonic?It is an RE-784. Simply, though some would move on a radio for style, others kept it until it was no longer cost effective to repair it. FWIR she got a solid-state set for a lot less than the repair estimate for the Panasonic. My Moms' kitchen Panasonic went for more than 10 years then it started to hum. In my family it was three to five years, some a lot longer. Last edited by radiomania on Feb 4:54 am, edited 1 time in total.
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So, my conclusion based on this and the other posts, somewhere between 15 and 25 years.
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And, my mother had a '50s vintage Motorola AC-DC portable which she used in the kitchen every day I don't think that one works anymore and looks like it went through a war! It was replaced by a solid state radio sometime in the early 70's which is now long gone, but the Motorola is still around stored away somewhere. My parents still have their c1970s Philips stereo component system in their living room which they used regularly on weekends back in the day but today hardly ever, although it still works and still looks like it came out of the box. So 15 years for that one and probably a few more after that.Īs far as recollections of the family stuff goes, my grandparents had a Stromberg Carlson AM-FM Phono console c1950 which I remember still being in use in the mid 1970s.
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I have a Philco on the bench with a chassis date of 1935 and a tube from it with a 1950 checked date. So, two different generations, two different periods in time, two different outcomes.
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I don't remember it making the transition to our second house though, and my dad had an AM tuner/record changer built in, along with a 23" B/W TV set mounted in the wall of the living room, with a wood cage around it's chassis and tube neck behind. My folks had a console radio in the living room of our first house. So their radios were hung onto until the end. They also had a Bakelite table set on a shelf in their breakfast room, which also would have still been there until the cleanout. I inherited it when he was moved into a nursing home, and the house cleaned out.
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My grandfather had a TRF console in his bedroom, which I'm guessing was moved from their living room once they got a TV set. I don't think that there's any one size fits all answer to this question. Last edited by nipperscousin on Feb 3:46 am, edited 1 time in total. I can't say I remember other examples like that. As far as I can remember it wasn't a novelty for them, the radio still worked and it looked nice, so they used it. It seemed though that that was an exception. I would hear stuff like "Band on the Run" coming out of this old 40s radio. The family of a kid I knew in my neighborhood in the early 70s had a wooden console model (can't remember the make) and I remember being over there listening to the local Top 40 AM station. Unless maybe if you count the rise in FM radio, was there any real enhanced features that were that much different in those 30 years that would make people ditch their old radios for new ones? I was born in 1966 and I do remember very few instances where I saw old radios still in use when I was a kid. With the exception of solid state versus tubes the technology was basically the same. In other words were radios purchased in say, the late 1940s still getting usage in people's homes 10-15 years later? Was an AC powered tube radio from like 1962 still sitting in someones's bedroom in 1969 and getting played as usual? Not for nostalgia but as a function of the shelf life of the radio.
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That is how long did people hang on to their radios and actually use them in prior decades, mainly the 1940s thru the 1970s.