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Walter H. Nussbaum & New York's Radio Row
In this video we tell the story of New York's "Radio Row" and one man who became its most "notorious" business owner.
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The Antique Wireless Association - Check it out!
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The Antique Wireless Association (AWA) is dedicated to the preservation of radio history and the great radios that brought the news, entertainment and much, much more into the homes of America for over a century. So go to their website and discover the world of radio history and consider joining! Here's the link - www.antiquewireless.org/homepage/
"The Interview" with Alfred H. Grebe's grandson!
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This second installment of Roaring Twenties Radio , "The Interview" series, features an interview with George Meir, the grandson of Alfred H. Grebe. Alfred Grebe founded the A.H. Grebe Radio Company. George tells his grandfather's story and provides photos, home movies and other items never seen before by the public. Tune into the Roaring Twenties Radio channel to hear Alfred Grebe's story like...
AntiqueRadios.Com
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Antique Radios is the top website for collectors, restorers and people who are interested in radio and radio history. Members of the Antique Radios website are knowledgeable and willing to help you in your radio restoration project or provide information on radio history. Check out the site at AntiqueRadios.Com today and sign up to be a member, its free.
The Story of Albert Devere Silva, Atwater Kent's Chief Engineer - Part Two
Просмотров 1982 месяца назад
In this video Albert's grandson, Kevin, continues the story of his grandfather's career after leaving Atwater Kent, and goes on to tell the story of Albert's sons and his own amazing story in the music industry and the famous recording groups and singers that have been his clients.
The Story of Albert Devere Silva, Atwater Kent's Chief Engineer - Part One
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This is a very special presentation of the Roaring Twenties Radio RUclips channel. It's the channel's first in "The Interview" series. We'll interview a 1980's rock'n' roll singer who has a connection to 1920's radio, specifically, the Atwater Kent Radio Company and another radio company from a slightly later era, which we will go into in part two of this video. See part two here - ruclips.net/...
Big News!
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News about upcoming videos on the Roaring Twenties Radio channel.
James Clerk Maxwell
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His work was the foundation for all radio communication along with many other accomplishments and the greatest physicist of the 19th century, yet he's comparatively unknown compared to Einstein and Newton.
Wireless Specialty Apparatus Company
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This radio company was founded in 1907 and fourteen years later ended up going bananas! ( In the video I stated that WWI started in 1917. It actually started in 1914. The U.S. did not enter the war until April of 1917, before then it didn't effect life in the U.S. very much.)
Harkness Counterdon Counterflex 3 Tube Radio
Просмотров 2265 месяцев назад
We follow up our video on Kenneth Harkness with a video to let you experience the Counterflex circuit at work in one of Harkness's radios, the Counterdon-Counterflex three tube receiver.
Kenneth Harkness
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Who was Kenneth Harkness, really? Thanks to my friends and fellow Antiqueradios.com members dogged determination, we found out! You can see one of his radios here..... roaringtwentiesantiqueradiomuseum.com/radio-gallery-4 Just scroll down to see the radio after you arrive at the page.
William Priess
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In this video we delve into the shadows of radio history, a place where the radio pioneers that received little attention for their part in radio history reside. William Priess is one such radio pioneer.
Brightson Laboratories, Inc
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George E. Brightson went from being a huge success at one company to a rapid failure at another.
Who was Lucien Levy?
Просмотров 2046 месяцев назад
I discovered this French radio pioneer while doing research for another video documentary. I had never heard of him or read anything about him posted on the internet, which really surprised me after finding out about his career in radio. Now you can learn him too in this new video. Please subscribe if you haven't already, I'd greatly appreciate it.
Klitzen Radio Manufacturing Company
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Klitzen Radio Manufacturing Company
Wondeerful information and vintage film. Thank you so much!
Cheer~~telegraphy using radio transmission.😊
FYI , when radio row was to be demolished one of the shops moved his shop to astoria queens NY. Located on stienway street and 28th Avenue. It was called SL jack that is where I would buy parts and tubes. Jack was a WW2 vet and a good business man. He spoke much of radio row and how he bought out stock from other shops that decided to fold. He told me about all of the radio stuff from the 1920s that was tossed in the trash because it was considered obsolete. Those were the good old days.
As a 20s radio collector, I wish I could take a U-Haul back in time and fill it with some of that valuable trash. ;)
Products employing radio in their names remind me of “ RKO Radio Pictures” movie company and thevred “ Radio Flyer” child’s toy wagon. These were metal rather than wood. “ Radio” in the 1930’s was synonymous with the word “ magic”.
There was even a "Radio Milk Company", although I'm not sure of what the connection is between milk and radio.
Money.
What does the very doctor Michael biel have to say bout this😺
Why no women? At home with the kids.
Their rightful place, raising the next generation.
Be careful there or wifey may show you another use for her rolling pin. ;)
@@OldCanadianguy953 Which should have stayed like that.
@@Radio1920s There is nothing wrong with being a housewife. Only to feminists who ruined the world and took away a women's right to be a mother and homemaker.
Throngs of well dressed people on the streets... everyone even kids wore neckties.
Dress standards in public do seem to have dropped quite a bit.
@@Radio1920s Remember kids, Spandex is a privilege, not a right.
I was a regular visitor to the radio rows of NYC and Philadelphia on the 1950s. Lots of war surplus equipment that could be repurposed for ham radio or audio systems.
After the World Trade Center was built a very few remained . I was in 9th grade living in Jersey city and took the Path train in . I could not pass the Morse code exam for a ham radio license so I took the test for a third class commercial license at the FCC office nearby downtown . You had to take it in person . The man that gave the exam was a guy that was in an old book on getting a license .
that Morse code test was hard, my daughter passed it when she was eight.
I applied for a "Restricted Radiotelephone Operator's Permit" in 1982 to work in a radio station. As I recall it was a matter of mailing in an application card to the FCC stating that "I can speak and hear" and "I can at least roughly fill out a station log". It was stated to be "good for the lifetime of the holder" unless suspended or revoked. I still have it, stamped December 8, 1982. Some of the older guys had the nice frameable Radiotelephone Third Class certificates that had an expiration date. Mine was just a wallet sized card.
Late 40's early 50's the go to place for early TV sets, like with 6" screen and magnifiers along with color screens.
It certainly was, Robert.
Fascinating history lesson on several levels. I hit the "subscribe" button on this one. Glad I found your channel.
Welcome aboard, John. Glad you found me.
Transistors and solid state circuits were changing the electronics business in the ‘60s. Coincidentally, radio row disappeared about the same time. Even without redevelopment those stores probably would have been doomed anyway. As far as Nussbaum, there are eight million stories in the naked city.
While Radio Row was a bit run-down, it was still a thriving area for businesses. It didn't disappear, it was taken by the city under "eminent domain". The stores were selling modern electronics at the time and it could have gone on for many more years. Thanks for watching!
@@Radio1920s Thanks for the video and responding to me. Eminent domain in NYC is well understood. I watched as the World Trade Center was being built. I’m an amateur radio enthusiast from NY that’s interested in the history of broadcasting and radio in general. Thanks again.
@@Radio1920s, the stress of the legal fight against eminent domain literally killed several of the store owners, who suffered heart attacks or strokes.
@@goodun2974 was it worth it see 3000 people killed?
GREAT VIDEO AND INFORMATION……MY UNCLE TOOK ME THERE WHEN I VISITED THEM IN LONG ISLAND….AND I WOULD BUY RADIO BOOKS THAT I STILL HAVE…I WAS IN MY LOW TEENS…..HOW I LOVED GOING THERE..I AM FROM JERSEY….. AND DID NOT LIKE THE WORLD TRADE CENTER MOVING IN AT ALL..WHEN MY UNCLE TOOK ME THERE I THOUGHT I DIED AND WENT TO HEAVEN……DANG IT WAS A GREAT PLACE TO VISIT……WOULD SURE LOVE MORE INFORMATION OF RADIO ROW
Who knows? Maybe a more in depth follow up in a future video. Thank you for watching.
@@Radio1920s, Antique Radio Classifieds magazine (now defunct) printed a 3-part article about Radio Row a couple decades or so ago. Perhaps you can scare up a copy.....
Remarkable!!!
I'm glad you enjoyed it, peacetrain.
Can you date the video? By the cars, I'd say mid-late 30's? Don't see any postwar cars.
I agree with your assessment. Arrow Radio's store is in the film and it opened in 1935, so late 1930s seems about right judging from that and the cars. Still plenty of 1920's radios for sale in the shop windows, which kind of surprised me.
I absolutely loved Radio Row. As a kid of 11, 12 years old, I could take the bus from New Jersey, or, the Newark subway to the PATH trains into big bad NYC. Imagine that, today? I could spend hours and hours walking around Canal St and Cortland St in those stores. It was all so gloriously beat-up, the storeowners were grizzly old guys in a bad mood, the rustier the piece of junk they had, the more they wanted for it. I was into electronics and it was heaven on earth. Radio must have been all the rage back in the 20's and 30's. Fully the equivalent of internet frenzy, it was absolutely a gold rush. Everybody wanted in. The stories of guys buying tubes and relabeling and repackaging them are great. WW2 surplus must have dumped megatons of junk onto Radio Row, and all these guys sold stacks and stacks of aircraft radios that amateurs converted into ham outfits. It was a good time, not all of it, but most of it. Imagine...horse-drawn trucks pulling loads of radios around. Come on!
I love it when people share their stories, thanks Alan!
@@Radio1920s You're welcome! Thanks for extending my understanding of the history of Radio Row back into the 20's. I kind of thought it was a only a post WW2 war-surplus-dump phenomenon. There were lots of gritty-industrial businesses down in that area. It was really kind of like the pix you see of the Boston or Baltimore docks in the 1890's. This was as late as the 70's. There were big machine tool guys, there were stores where guys had hundreds of wooden barrels of who knows what piled up onto the sidewalks. And then it all came down for the WTC. Not too many people know that New York, meaning Manhattan, had many, many factories that produced all manner of goods in the early 20th century.
some of the prices of stuff on Canal st. were outrageous.Taken from The Price Gougers Handbook.
My grandfather learned television repair (on the GI Bill) after the war and was a machinist at the Brooklyn Navy yards and he spent most of his time on radio row looking for bargains. Grandpa Red used to build crystal radios as a boy! His favorite store he used to take me to was Job Lots (or Big Lots) on Canal St. and they had lots of bargains and electronics. He would bring home all kinds of toys and gadgets like a solar car, flashlights and calculators. Because of him I learned basic electronics and pursued a career early on as a technician in the computer and television fields. His most memorable purchase was when I was a toddler and he brought home a 19" B&W Panasonic Television with "Solid State" electronics to watch the Moon Landing on! I was 18 mos old and remember that clear as day!
he learned television repair and became a machinist.So he machined parts for televisions at the navy yard television factory.Admiral televisions,right?
Thanks for sharing!
What a life! Great story.
I went to radio row many times when I was a kid and living on Long Island. In the early to mid sixties, that was a monthly Saturday morning trip on the subway.
Didn't a lot of these stores start selling Hi-Fi equipment?
Hi-Fi, Televisions and all the other electronics that were around in the fifties and sixties.
Why was the trade center built on radio row instead of having it on the future extension of west Manhattan
Originally the plan was to build along the East River, but the Governor of New Jersey objected to it because there was nothing in it for New Jersey. The plan was then changed to the west side along with some side deals the governor's made to close the deal.
Many places moved to canal street to become a new radio row in the 70s to the 90s but since many of the electrical and electronics places have been replaced by legitimate business or just sit empty
Didn't know that Tony, thanks for enlightening me.
Recall such a store in Ontario, California, just off of Euclid avenue. I recall going in there many times in my early teens and getting the drools…
Very interesting, thanks for including the footage at the end!
Your welcome, freightgod!
I was on Radio Row when I was 11 on a family trip to NYC. I remember lots of surplus radio stuff just by the entrances of the shops.
Very true. Many of those shops were very small and they were just so stuffed with product they had to display it on the sidewalks as well. Did you or your family buy a radio there?
@@Radio1920s No. My parents wouldn't let me near that stuff. My dad bought a Sony tape recorder from Harrison. I remember it was $78, and the regular price was $100.
@@daveschmarder-1950 And that was a fairly big deal, because most items were "fair traded" back then, there was one price no matter where you bought it.
@@alanpecherer5705 Oh yeah. I remember the Fair Trade. They didn't charge us sales tax as we lived out of the area and that is before we had a sales tax here in Western New York. Imagine remembering before there was a sales tax. I'm old.
Very good video…………..
Thank you, Mike.
My family always bought Zenith televisions and steros....SHAME they are gone, we miss them
Find out more about Zenith History on my channel - ruclips.net/video/Mbs-pZHcXdg/видео.html
Thanks to George and Dan. It’s amazing that Grebe radios are still around and working today - a statement of the quality of their quality.
Glad you enjoyed it, Robert.
Awesome video, Dan and George!...the new interview format really makes early radio history come to life!!...absolutely fascinating to hear the personal accounts of these radio pioneers as recounted by their descendants!!!
I am so glad you enjoyed it. I had a great time with George, after we finished taping the interview he bought me dinner. It always a bonus to make a new friend like George.
Fantastic! Thank you!
You're very welcome, Dave. I'm glad you enjoyed the video.
Was this supposed to be alive chat?
I think that's in a couple more hours.
No, I just wanted to tell people about the Antique Radios website.
@@Radio1920s Thanks.
Excellent stuff once again. Thank you, Sir.
Thank you, Edward, for watching my channel.
You know, this is really good content. I am a bit surprised that you don't have more subscribers, but that may very well be partially RUclips's fault. At any rate...........
I'm glad you enjoyed the video. When I started this channel I knew that the subject matter would be of interest to a limited audience. The subscriber numbers have increased steadily, but very slowly. I did think they'd be a bit higher by this point, but it is what it is. My videos have improved considerably from earlier ones and I've got another interview taped and trying to line up two more. I'm hoping the interviews might generate more interest. Since this is my first, I'll reserve judgement for now on whether its helping. Time will tell. Thanks for watching.
I recently started working for Magmotor Technologies out of Worcester; a DC brushed / brushless motor company. Turns out, Atwater sold a motor design to the parent company of Magmotor: Kendrick & Davis out of Lebanon, NH in the early 1900's. Small world!
That's interesting, thanks for sharing that with the group!
Thank you! So wonderful to finally know the complete story of Zenith, still going strong in 1980. However they chose not to embrace printed circuit board technology, instead advertising the "handcrafted quality" of obsolete point-to-point wiring in use since the beginning of radio. Already in 1975 we were working 7 days a week in Motorola's Quasar television factory in Franklin Park, Chicago, installing the Japanese assembly lines coming over in container ships to enable high-volume production of televisions not only on a single PCB, but also featuring a single, large integrated circuit instead of many individual components. Zenith was top quality, my father bought one in 1963 and it ran nonstop for more than 20 years, requiring no more than an occasional shot of "tuner cleaner" spray. This is a testament to the superb quality of vacuum tubes and components of the day. When it was finally time to say goodbye to the old black-and-white Zenith, it still worked perfectly.
Thanks for telling your story about Zenith, Kevin.
Congratulations on a great start to your interview series!...Lots of reasons why the amazing accomplishments of these early radio pioneers faded into history instead of being handed down…really exciting when they are brought back to life by their descendants!!...Great that so much of early radio has been and is being preserved for future generations!!!
Thanks Mr50s, most of the credit should go to Kevin Silva, he put a lot of time and effort into preserving his grandfather's history.
Kevin's family has quite an interesting history. Thanks for sharing!
There's a lot more to his family's story, this was the tip of the iceberg.
Great video, thanks
Glad you liked it!
I have 2 Eveready floor model radios. They are called Eveready 52. they both work good. You can look it up on the net.
The Eveready 52 was made in 1929
I'm 67 and when I was about 7 or 8 I built a crystal radio. I use a metal fence for the antenna.
How well did the fence work as an antenna?
@@Radio1920s The fence worked really good as an antenna. I built the radio out of parts not a kit. I spent my entire life working at the highest levels of technology and still had a hobby of old radios. I was a specialist with one of the biggest tech companies in the world. I retired years ago and still care for my antique radios.
@@RottenAnimal Same here as far as our jobs, I was into computerized manufacturing and one day I bought a restored cathedral radio and thought, "I can do that", and that's how I got started collecting radios.
Does anyone know what band are playing the opening tune, Pennies from Heaven.
Eddy Duchin and his Orchestra, 1936.
@@Radio1920s Thank you - much appreciated.
Great video. The Japs lost the war but won, and are still winning the economic war so as to speak. And, coming not far behind are the Chinese.
Great to see you!...Idea for the interviews is outstanding!!
It will be a while longer to get them created and posted, but I think you'll find them worth the wait.
Good to see you, looking forward to the interviews! Hope ARF gets back to normal soon. 😂
Me too!
As usual, I was just looking at my invisible wristwatch because it felt like time for an episode! I'll settle for an update. Good luck, it sounds interesting
Thanks for your patience, Freight. I've been trusted with hundreds of documents and photos that I have to sort through and scan. I've scanned about 230 so far with many more to go. There will be a lot more work for me to do with the interview episodes. The interviews are done, but producing the videos will take longer.
Looking forward to hearing from these folks. Nice to meet you!
Thank you, John. The interview videos will take more time to produce than my usual videos, so please be patient. They are being worked on and I am waiting on more materials from the subjects of my interviews. I'll do my best to make sure it was worth the wait, for you and my other subscribers. Take care.
Great video, thanks!
I'm glad you enjoyed it yardley.
He was such a gifted person!! Thanks for your research.
You're welcome, John.
Thank you for another awesome video!...have been interested in this topic since learning about United Fruit’s participation in the Radio Corporation of America patent trust!!...had connected the dots back to the Wireless Specialty Apparatus Company, but was fascinated by your well researched history of WSA!!!
Thank you for your comments, Mr.50
Since when did WW1 (The Great War) start in 1917? Better not tell history, they thought it was 1914
The U.S, entered WWI in April of 1917. Before then the war didn't have much affect on life in the U.S.