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A 1930's Cathedral Radio, styled after Philco radios of the day. It's one of the smaller ones, made for a desktop or other limited space area, and is … more »

A 1930's Cathedral Radio, styled after Philco radios of the day. It's one of the smaller ones, made for a desktop or other limited space area, and is the kind of radio you might find in an office or small apartment, sitting on a desk or a corner table. I should mention that most radios in it's day were a lot larger - some up to four feet tall and three feet wide. Most radios back then were capable of picking up both AM and shortwave. On the AM bands, you could listen to stations from anywhere across the country in the evenings, and on the shortwave bands, you could listen to radio stations from all around the world at any time - and radios back then were often sold with the labels having the major shortwave stations around the world clearly marked. You want to listen to the BBC news from London? Just dial their station and listen. A radio wasn't just a radio, back then, folks. It was the centerpiece of the evening family entertainment. Back then, the family gathered around the radio and listened to live-broadcast shows like "The Lone Ranger" and "The Shadow", among hundreds of others. Well, this is a smaller version, like you'd find in an office, or in the home of a family that couldn't afford one of those huge four-foot tall behemoths. Not that internally they were much different, no - often they were identical, just the bigger ones had larger speakers and usually got better reception because they had more room for a nice, loooooong antenna inside the cabinet. « Less