Portable transistor pocket radio-with one ear plug

[WhatInThe]

In this day and age of head phones, ear buds and Iphones how many ever used a pocket sized transistor radio with one ear plug if you wanted to listen in private. Heck even the Sony Walkman with cassette is a relic at this point.

 

[Pappy]

I still have one and use it once in awhile. Reception isn't very good.

 

[SeaBreeze]

I used one, still use an old walkman radio at night, I bought the two earbud connection for it, but only use one. Don't need to wake up the sleeping Tinnitus giant, lol. I did have one as a young child, it belonged to the family, but I could use it when the adults weren't.

 

[jujube]

I got my first transistor radio, a Toshiba, back around 1961 as a Christmas present. It was about 3x6, had a leather carrying case with a shoulder strap and one earbud. I felt like I was hot stuff, strutting around with that thing.

 

[Cinnamon]

I had one. Used to get in trouble for taking it to school, too.

 

[911]

I had an old Philco that had one ear plug.

 

[avrp]

I loved to sit on the porch after supper and listen to my transitor radio. I especially remember it during summer vacation.

 

[chic]

I had one. Used to get in trouble for taking it to school, too.

Ditto. I used to take mine to school too, but I never got caught or in trouble for it.

 

[ronaldj]

I had one as well and would take it to school ....we listened to the death of president Kennedy on it in class in 1963.......

 

[movieman]

Mine was an RCA with a leather case and earphone. Listened to a lot of tunes with it and also played it very quietly in bed at night, listening to distant AM radio talk shows. I think I may have heard early Larry King nighttime shows out of Chicago.

 

[QuickSilver]

I have an IPod nano 7th generation. and even that is obsolete now.

 

[Ameriscot]

I had a transistor radio that I think was a birthday gift, maybe 13th. Had a Walkman for cassettes and another for CD's. My ipod is pretty old but I only use it for the gym and it works fine. For audio books I use my android.

 

[tnthomas]

I bought a transistor radio at S.S. Kresge's in the early 60s, cost a whooping $3.69 IIRC. I never had an ear plug, just listened to music over the radio's very tinny speaker.

 

[Happyflowerlady]

This was the one I had when I was a kid. The silver part was the antenna, and it tuned in a station by raising and lowering it. It only picked up stations that were nearby, so I only got our one local radio station.

 

[Llynn]

This was the one I had when I was a kid. The silver part was the antenna, and it tuned in a station by raising and lowering it. It only picked up stations that were nearby, so I only got our one local radio station.

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That was a crystal set. Had no power source other the signal being received over the air, used a single diode as a detector and had no amplification circuit. Fun to build or play with though. Those specific receivers were widely advertised in comic books in the 50s.

 

[Flarbalard]

Got one for my 8th birthday, came with the ear phone.

Sometime in the last 25 years bought a couple am/fm radios from Radio Shack for emergency use. Those came with the ear phone too. They aren't anywhere as good as the one I got for my birthday, but when needed better than nothing.

 

[Feelslikefar]

At the age 10, my Appendix ruptured, sending nasty stuff though my body.
Many, many days in the hospital and the only thing that helped me from missing my parents at night, was that 'Rocket'
crystal radio. No batteries needed.

Laying in my bed at night, I found out just how powerful music was in my life.

 

[Pinky]

I think I posted this, somewhere on the forum ..

For my 13th birthday, I got to choose a Sony transistor radio. I remember Dad saying, "don't tell Mom how much it cost". I kept it well into my 20's .. wish I still had it now.

 

[katlupe]

I bought one recently on eBay. It is brand new, cheap and works great. I keep it in my walker and can use it when I am out. I always use it in the laundry room when I do my laundry. I have an MP3 player too but I like this for listening to the radio.

 

[Oldeagle66]

My favorite as a kid were the small am/fm ones with just an antenna (no earpiece). After this I think I'll go online and find one.

 

[MACKTEXAS]

I had a transistor radio such as described by several, and before that, I had a crystal radio. It required no batteries or power.

 

[Rae]

I bought a small transistor radio at age 13 with my babysitting money. It was so wonderful to own and had it for many years.

 

[chic]

In this day and age of head phones, ear buds and Iphones how many ever used a pocket sized transistor radio with one ear plug if you wanted to listen in private. Heck even the Sony Walkman with cassette is a relic at this point.

I had one. I used to take it to school where I wold slip it into my uniform pocket and try to camouflage the wire so I could listen to rock music. I was 11.

 

[Axel Slingerland]

...just listened to music over the radio's very tinny speaker.

Mine had a tiny tinny speaker. I got it for Christmas in 1963 in less than two weeks my father hated it. I took the little earphone and cut the earphone off, stripped the wires and hooked it up to a bigger 3" speaker. It wouldn't get earschplittenloudenboomer loud, but for 1964 I was stoked...

 

[Magna-Carta]

As a young child, I persuaded my parents to buy me a small battery powered handheld transistor radio one Christmas, for the sole purpose of sneaking it to bed with me so I could listen to it under the covers. The volume turned right down with the single speaker next to my ear, so only I could hear it. The telescopic aerial pocking out of the covers. I would listen to it in the middle of the night when my parents were asleep.

Then later I realised it had an earphone jack, so I asked my parents to get me one of them too. I didn't have to keep the volume down anymore.