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Wollensak tape recorder
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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.