[Hallicrafters] Finely crafted memories

[Thomas C. Dailey - Dailey Services, LLC]

Finely crafted memories - that's what they are.  When I was a kid of 13 in 
1956, I LUSTED (thanks for the line, J. Carter) for an S-38D.  At only 
$49.95 it was well, sort of affordable.  I lived in Kansas City, so my buddy 
and I would ride the bus (imagine that, a bus) downtown to Burstein-Applebee 
(B-A), for whom I worked later on, and being issued our figurative drool 
cup, we would be loaned a pair of TRIMM or ACME earphones (very hard & 
uncomfortable, those), so that we could listen to the receivers.  As I had 
not yet obtained the elusive NOVICE, we were not allowed to play with such 
etherial wonders, such as transmitters.  Many, many, years (and radios) 
later, I would finally own the coveted ORIGINAL S-38, then a brace of 
others, until finally culminating in the wonder of the modern age - the 
little brother to the SX-62A - the S-38D.  Ohhh, how it's slide-rule dial 
exposed every country known to man (hey, just put the yellow pointer there, 
and it'd be the BBC, right?).  I've since repaired 6 of 'em, but even after 
the multitude of other "better" receivers, the words of my friend Kirk, 
still known after grade school, Junior High, High School and Life - said it 
best a few years ago.

"In 1956, the Hallicrafters S-38D represented the HEIGHT of "affordable 
technology" to a kid of 13".

'nuff said - sic transit loudspeakerum

TC