Posted 14 years ago
foxbodystang
(36 items)
Given to me by a friend. The cabinet has been cleaned and polished but is otherwise unrestored. The chassis received all new tubes, new capacitors and resistors. Anyone familiar with this vintage chassis knows that restoring the huge can capacitors and philco's bakelite capacitors is a task. Particularly since this was my first Philco of this vintage. After much work, it plays like new.
I have an interesting "slinky" antenna stretched across my attic. This old radio needs a good antenna. I had been operating on just a 10 foot piece of wire stetched across the workshop. Well...it really came to life whenI hooked it up to the "slinky". Amazing.
It's big, it's heavy, it's old but it really works great. Fun listening to our local oldies station (KZQZ 1430).
Very nice radio. Great job restoring a piece of history.
I might add to your description, that this model 20 is the deluxe . I suspect it had a dial light ..the original didn't. This is October 2025...some 96 years since the stock market crash back in 1929...the start of the great depression. Some folks may not know philco had made a large expensive radio named the grand. Noone could afford it. Then came this smaller version in the first ever cathedral style. It was called "the baby grand". First introduced 10 months following the oct 1929 stock market crash. This one was very popular , as it was almost affordable.