Robert Paul photos 1960-62 - Photo #7 - Frankfurt, Germany: HiCoG and Platenstrasse

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Wollensak tape recorder
Wollensak tape recorder
Dad in our HICOG living room, 1961, reading about atmospheric nuclear bomb tests in the Pacific. On the right, a cabinet containing Dad's Telefunken HiFi set, very fancy radio with SW bands, MW, and LW (whatever they all are), and the dials were wonderful -- they'd light up and had the locations for various "Radios" as in "Radio Moscow" and "Riga" and "Nice" and whatever all else. It was a geography lesson just to look at the dial. Of course an automatic turntable went along with the ensemble, and I recall there was an empty shelf that held my Dad's Wollensak tape recorder, which we had with us in Greece, and used for recording tapes to our family back home (and listening to the ones they'd send in return). Mono only, of course. I love this old magazine ad -- the thing was "portable". Fortunately when we got to Korea we bought a National Panasonic reel-to-reel recorder, that was stereo, etc. The poor Wollensak just gathered dust somewhere. I'm not sure where it ended up, but I don't have it.