[ARC5] R-45/ARR-7

[Michael Bittner]

This past Saturday, at the SCARS swap meet, I sold an early 1950's vintage 
Zenith portable radio to a young lady who, at first, believed that all 
portable radios were transistors.  She couldn't believe that there were ever 
portables with tubes.  I showed here the tubes inside and she seemed pleased 
with the whole idea and bought the radio.

73, Mike W6MAB


----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Richard Knoppow" <1oldlens1 at ix.netcom.com>
To: <arc5 at mailman.qth.net>
Sent: Sunday, June 17, 2018 17:05
Subject: Re: [ARC5] R-45/ARR-7


    I have encountered this with other stuff. My almost wife's
family sold a house full of antiques in Cape Cod recently. It was
hard to sell. Young people do not want old stuff. There was a
certain market of people of our age (old) who have memories but
there are getting to be fewer and fewer. I think there is also
getting to be a lack of appreciation of workmanship. The idea now
is to get something new that will do the job and toss it when it
breaks. I suspect that in a century there will not be much left
from our era. Technology has changed so fast that I suspect that
a lot of people under about 25 simply have not even heard of
things which were a part of life for decades for many of us.
There is a series of short films on You Tube where kids of
somewhere between 5 and 12 are introduced to work a day objects
from the past. Things like dial telephones. They recognize its a
phone but have no idea of how to use it.

On 6/17/2018 4:01 PM, Mike Morrow wrote:
> Market values are much lower today, and continue to plummet. Most of us 
> are reluctant to appreciate how little real value or interest our 
> treasures have in 2018. Soon our estates will be paying someone big bucks 
> to haul the junk...even uncommon NOS pristine un-hammed unmodified 
> junk...away.
>
> One would be very lucky to sell an R-45/ARR-7 for even $100, unless a 
> gullible buyer can be found on ebay.
>
> Mike / KK5F
>
-- 
Richard Knoppow
1oldlens1 at ix.netcom.com
WB6KBL
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