Greetings, sort of neighbor (Southern New England, anyway) and fellow radio lover! Thanks for the great memories! I bought a pristine Radiola 60 with the fancy shmancy Radiola 103 speaker in the summer of 1985 at the antique shop on the second floor of that big store near the Oxhead Tavern in Sturbridge, MA - I was going to college in Waterbury, CT at the time and picked it up one afternoon before class, and it worked beautifully! It wasn't cheap, but man, was it worth it! Such a beautiful set...
Todd, they really did know how to create style! That is part of the mystique. If you don’t still have your 60 there are plenty of them still available at reasonable prices. And I think I know the store you described. I once bought a large music box disk there. Thanks for the comment.
@@kb1awv glad to comment. I'm tempted to buy another but I'm overwhelmed with stuff as it is right now. Maybe I will down the road. The shop in Sturbridge was right off of Route 20 near the road (the Oxhead Tavern was set back from the road quite a bit at the back of a large parking lot), and there was a restaurant on the first floor. There was a balcony on the second or third floor and the building, which was actually a big house, was white. It was a great antique shop.
I acquired a 60 from a friend. Changed several capacitors. When I turn it on, as it warms up, it squeals and squalls just like in the old movies! It has great sound.
Got one I bought off of eBay about 10 years ago and just scored a Radiola 103 speaker to go with it. I have replaced the ST style tubes with the original working globe tubes and now I will be in the process of getting this 87 year old baby working.Thanks for the tour!
Glad to do the tour, Leonard. How is your Model 60 coming along? You have the right idea about putting in globe tubes - it's a nice original enhancement.
Thanks for the positive comments, Ken. I am waiting on the .5 and 2.0uf caps to replace the ones that are in the output choke can. Once that happens I will be powering it back up and then doing the realignment of the IF. I just got through replacing the speaker grill with an reproduction from the RadiolaGuy and it looks perfect.
I have one of these, and I love it! It was a royal pain to align, since I had to remove the tuning capacitor in order to do so. I live in northern Michigan, and I only get two local stations with an indoor antenna, but at night I can pick up Canadian station AM 740 CFZM "Zoomer Radio" (about 58 on my dial), which plays oldies music, and, around 9:30 PM eastern time, a program called "Theater of the Mind", which is old-time radio shows. Pretty cool to listen to old-time radio broadcasts on an old-time radio! I also have a low-power transmitter so I can listen to pre-recorded music and shows if there is nothing worth listening to on the two local stations (which, since they are news/talk/sports, there seldom is... :P ). I switch back and forth between a Radiola 100A speaker and a Peerless Reproducer - hard to decide which one sounds better.
I see you are having a lot of fun with the Radiola 60 too. It is a great radio. I have also received the Old Time Radio (OTR) broadcasts from a Toronto AM Station ... 7Khz, I think.
Beautiful set... thanks for sharing, Ken. The two chassis in that set look similar to the ones in the 1929 RCA Radiola 66 console, too.... upon closer inspection I see that the 60 has one more tube on the RF deck than the 66... I remember my Dad's 66 and it had six '27s and one '45 on the RF chassis and one '80 on the power-supply chassis. I did a quick search on that $239 price and got this result: "$239 in 1928 equals $3,470.79 in 2019.".... wow!... definitely a top-of-the-line set there. ;-)
I recently acquired one of these and two speakers (they have a flower boquet on there grill cloths, not sure the model) for FREE on the side of the road during a town junk clean out day. All the tubes work and are original. Needs some minor cabinet restoration and the speakers work but are cosmetically shot. Hope to have it refurbished by summers end as i have two to finish beforehand. Nice video.
Wow, Alan, that was a lucky find! Please let me know when you post a video of your restored system so I can watch it and post a link here. There are new parts such as grill cloth and back bonnet cover available for those speakers. You can probably restore them too. Good luck to you and thanks for watching this video.
Tom, thanks for watching. This is a nice radio. Now I need to get it out of the basement (finished area) and to a better spot upstairs. It's time to make more storage shelves!
Greetings, sort of neighbor (Southern New England, anyway) and fellow radio lover! Thanks for the great memories! I bought a pristine Radiola 60 with the fancy shmancy Radiola 103 speaker in the summer of 1985 at the antique shop on the second floor of that big store near the Oxhead Tavern in Sturbridge, MA - I was going to college in Waterbury, CT at the time and picked it up one afternoon before class, and it worked beautifully! It wasn't cheap, but man, was it worth it! Such a beautiful set...
Todd, they really did know how to create style! That is part of the mystique. If you don’t still have your 60 there are plenty of them still available at reasonable prices. And I think I know the store you described. I once bought a large music box disk there. Thanks for the comment.
@@kb1awv glad to comment. I'm tempted to buy another but I'm overwhelmed with stuff as it is right now. Maybe I will down the road. The shop in Sturbridge was right off of Route 20 near the road (the Oxhead Tavern was set back from the road quite a bit at the back of a large parking lot), and there was a restaurant on the first floor. There was a balcony on the second or third floor and the building, which was actually a big house, was white. It was a great antique shop.
I acquired a 60 from a friend. Changed several capacitors. When I turn it on, as it warms up, it squeals and squalls just like in the old movies! It has great sound.
Got one I bought off of eBay about 10 years ago and just scored a Radiola 103 speaker to go with it. I have replaced the ST style tubes with the original working globe tubes and now I will be in the process of getting this 87 year old baby working.Thanks for the tour!
Glad to do the tour, Leonard. How is your Model 60 coming along?
You have the right idea about putting in globe tubes - it's a nice original enhancement.
Thanks for the positive comments, Ken. I am waiting on the .5 and 2.0uf caps to replace the ones that are in the output choke can. Once that happens I will be powering it back up and then doing the realignment of the IF. I just got through replacing the speaker grill with an reproduction from the RadiolaGuy and it looks perfect.
I have one of these, and I love it! It was a royal pain to align, since I had to remove the tuning capacitor in order to do so. I live in northern Michigan, and I only get two local stations with an indoor antenna, but at night I can pick up Canadian station AM 740 CFZM "Zoomer Radio" (about 58 on my dial), which plays oldies music, and, around 9:30 PM eastern time, a program called "Theater of the Mind", which is old-time radio shows. Pretty cool to listen to old-time radio broadcasts on an old-time radio! I also have a low-power transmitter so I can listen to pre-recorded music and shows if there is nothing worth listening to on the two local stations (which, since they are news/talk/sports, there seldom is... :P ). I switch back and forth between a Radiola 100A speaker and a Peerless Reproducer - hard to decide which one sounds better.
I see you are having a lot of fun with the Radiola 60 too. It is a great radio. I have also received the Old Time Radio (OTR) broadcasts from a Toronto AM Station ... 7Khz, I think.
Beautiful set... thanks for sharing, Ken.
The two chassis in that set look similar to the ones in the 1929 RCA Radiola 66 console, too.... upon closer inspection I see that the 60 has one more tube on the RF deck than the 66... I remember my Dad's 66 and it had six '27s and one '45 on the RF chassis and one '80 on the power-supply chassis.
I did a quick search on that $239 price and got this result:
"$239 in 1928 equals $3,470.79 in 2019.".... wow!... definitely a top-of-the-line set there. ;-)
I recently acquired one of these and two speakers (they have a flower boquet on there grill cloths, not sure the model) for FREE on the side of the road during a town junk clean out day. All the tubes work and are original. Needs some minor cabinet restoration and the speakers work but are cosmetically shot. Hope to have it refurbished by summers end as i have two to finish beforehand. Nice video.
Wow, Alan, that was a lucky find! Please let me know when you post a video of your restored system so I can watch it and post a link here. There are new parts such as grill cloth and back bonnet cover available for those speakers. You can probably restore them too. Good luck to you and thanks for watching this video.
Beautiful radio Ken, Thanks for the tour!
Tom, thanks for watching. This is a nice radio. Now I need to get it out of the basement (finished area) and to a better spot upstairs. It's time to make more storage shelves!
Hi, would you know if the radio gram version of this was very widely distributed? And are parts for the radio hard to come by?
Sorry for the late response , Adrian . I am not at all familiar with Radio Gram.