The radio dials shown here "represent only a small portion" of Michael Feldt's dial archive.
Gallery of antique radio tuning dials
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These are truly beautiful. Brings me back!
http://www.radio-restoration.com/BigPhotos/Zenith-1938.jpg
I really enjoyed this collection. Thanks!
I found more than a few old radios around my grandfathers house since he was a radio repairman from sometime in the 30's and up until the late 50's. I remember the fascination in just turning the dials with the names of distant countries on the face promising a journey to a faraway land via the simple turn of a knob.
Most of the old things didn't work as intended many years before when Philco Zenith or RCA sent them on their way from the factory, but in the mind of a 6 year old, they worked still worked their magic just fine without even being plugged in.
Nice. It's missing a dial from the Kennedy Radio Company. They were quite a large radio manufacturer that dated from even before many that are shown here.
Dead Dead Sexy.
Does anyone else swoon for the Zenith logo like I do?
It's pretty cool. The first remote control tv my parents bought was a Zenith, and I still love the logo. I think it may owe a thing or two to the Supro logo, though.
http://www.suprousa.com/
Actually, I may be mistaken...I think Zenith is older than Supro. Didn't realize they made radios before tvs.
Aww, he seems to have been Boing Boinged into web-hosting-AR-statis - for excessive bandwidth use probably. Too bad.