There’s something magical about the clunk of a heavy 1950s portable radio – the solid thunk of Bakelite, the warm hum of tubes glowing to life. This is exactly why [Ken’s Lab] took on the restoration ...

Today’s Historical Treasure from the Vigo County Historical Society Museum is a Philco portable radio from the 1930s. The radio has a wooden case and a beautiful Art Deco dial with the word Transitone ...

It was called the “Golden Age of Radio” in the 1940s and 1950s. Although thoughts recall the radio programing of the day when we hear the term, the equipment itself was also “golden,” so to speak.