October Snow Day
by Lee Dos Santos
Title
October Snow Day
Artist
Lee Dos Santos
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October Snow Day. The console radio was the center piece of household entertainment in the era of radio, they were big and expensive running up to $700 in the late 1930s. Mostly for the wealthy, these radios were placed in hallways and living rooms.[clarification needed]Most console radios were waist high and not very wide, as the years went on they got shorter and wider. Most consumer console radios were made by RCA, Philco, General Electric, Montgomery Ward (under the Airline brand name), Sears (under the Silvertone brand name), Westinghouse, radio-bar and many more. Brands such as Zenith, Scott, Atwater-Kent, were mainly for the rich as their prices ran into the $500–$800 range in the 1930s and 1940s.
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May 3rd, 2012
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