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The district faced a sad demise but it clearly had a good 40+ year run .. I’d have to believe that many of the merchants had an opportunity to open up shop elsewhere in the city however many opted not to for various reasons, I’d imagine .. It’s interesting to mentally picture the towers on the eastern edge of Lower Manhattan, where Rockefeller had initially proposed to build it

I am 85 and live in the UK . As a kid I used to build crystal radios with my father . We used toilet roll cardboard tubes as coil formers . I later built short wave crystal sets . With a long aerial and good earth I used to receive foreign stations at night . Later on I built valve receivers working on batteries . Even now I still restore vintage receivers . It's a great hobby and I still get pleasure from it . Sadly many short wave stations have closed down now because of the internet . As with many things , the glory days are past .

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.

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”.

Why no women? At home with the kids.

Throngs of well dressed people on the streets... everyone even kids wore neckties.

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 .

Late 40's early 50's the go to place for early TV sets, like with 6" screen and magnifiers along with color screens.

Fascinating history lesson on several levels. I hit the "subscribe" button on this one. Glad I found your channel.

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.

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

Remarkable!!!

Can you date the video? By the cars, I'd say mid-late 30's? Don't see any postwar cars.

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!

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!

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?

Why was the trade center built on radio row instead of having it on the future extension of west Manhattan

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

Very interesting, thanks for including the footage at the end!

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 good video…………..

My family always bought Zenith televisions and steros....SHAME they are gone, we miss them

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.

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!!!

Fantastic! Thank you!

Was this supposed to be alive chat?

Excellent stuff once again. Thank you, Sir.

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 UA-cam's fault. At any rate...........

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!

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.

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!!!

Kevin's family has quite an interesting history. Thanks for sharing!

Great video, thanks

I have 2 Eveready floor model radios. They are called Eveready 52. they both work good. You can look it up on the net.

I'm 67 and when I was about 7 or 8 I built a crystal radio. I use a metal fence for the antenna.

Does anyone know what band are playing the opening tune, Pennies from Heaven.

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!!

Good to see you, looking forward to the interviews! Hope ARF gets back to normal soon. 😂

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

Looking forward to hearing from these folks. Nice to meet you!

Great video, thanks!

He was such a gifted person!! Thanks for your research.

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!!!

Since when did WW1 (The Great War) start in 1917? Better not tell history, they thought it was 1914