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The theatre pipe organ played a vital role in the production of programs during Radio's "Golden Age." For a listing of all known pipe organs and organists in North American, UK and Australian radio stations, click here.... |
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Our own Wurlitzer studio pipe organ,
which is occasionally used for the re-creation of vintage radio programs. |
Be sure to check out these MP3 samples of radio themes that I created on the organ shown above. The announcer at the beginning and end of each sample is authentic from transcriptions of the original shows as indicated, but the organ music on the tracks was performed by me in 2010 and dubbed into the original old recordings.
ONE MAN'S FAMILY from NBC Radio 1945 
WLW's Moon River broadcast from 1949
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"BACK IN THE OLD DAYS" |
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A mid-1960's view of the electronics laboratory in
the college where I received my electronics training. This school was
one of the best in the country, and it produced most of the electronics technicians and broadcast engineers in the area for
over fifty years. Unfortunately, it closed in the 1970's. |
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The radio above is a Farnsworth chair side radio model
GK267. When I was a very young child, my family had a radio exactly like this. Every night, in the days before television entered the home, we sat around the radio and listened to programs such as "Mr. Keene Tracer Of Lost Persons," "Life With Luigi" and "The Beulah Show." My first recollections of Radio, and indeed some of my fondest memories of times with my family, in the post WW-II years, were very much rooted in this radio. The 1947 photo below shows our living room, in the years immediately following World-War II. The Farnsworth GK267 is visible in the lower left corner of the picture. |
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A photo of my ham shack dating back to 1962. Equipment included a Hallicrafters SX-140 receiver and a Knight-Kit T-60 phone/cw transmitter from Allied Radio in Chicago. Morse Code was copied using my 1935 Underwood "Noiseless" manual typewriter. I was able to work 20 countries, on 40 meter CW with this rig. Below, my original QSL cards printed by World Radio Laboratories. |
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BELOW: A 1979 PHOTO OF ME CLIMBING THE 60 FOOT ROHM TOWER AT MY HOME IN NEW ORLEANS. ATOP THE TOWER WAS A TRI-BAND YAGI FOR 20, 15 AND 10 METERS. |
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"AND HERE WE ARE, 40 YEARS LATER,
IN RICHMOND, VA. " |
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This is my present day ham shack in the basement of my home in Virginia. I am running a Yaesu FT-757GX all mode transceiver into a Cushcraft 160-10 Meter all band vertical antenna. The station is located approximately 90 miles inland from the Atlantic coast, and about 200 feet above sea level, so our RF propagation is excellent up and down the East coast and over into West Virginia, Pennsylvania and Ohio.
The shack is fully equipped as an emergency operations center, and it is
outfitted with a multi-fuel emergency generator, stand-by air conditioning system,
and facilities to communicate on all ham bands and most emergency radio
frequencies in time of disaster. Having weathered Hurricane Katrina in Louisiana, I
went to extensive lengths to make my new "communications center" able to
function in just about any emergency situation. |
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These photos are of my main display room where the bulk of my collection is housed. |
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Display case which holds miscellaneous small artifacts from the collection |
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And now, please spend a leisurely visit walking through
our museum gallery.
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THE MUSEUM OF YESTERDAY
ANTIQUE COMMUNICATIONS COLLECTION
BY CATEGORY |
