[R-390] radios at trash sites

[Jack/AE7DX]

A friend of my wife's was an in-home nurse and when an older lady that 
she was caring for passed away the lady's family took everything they 
wanted out of the house and we had a chance to choose from what 
remained. One of the items was a Scott receiver that had been sitting in 
the same place in the house since it was bought new in 1948 and, except 
for some dried-out caps, was in superb condition...we even had the 
original sales reeceipt! I had no place to keep it so it now resides in 
the Virginia City (NV) Radio Museum for visitors to enjoy.

Jack, AE7DX

Cecil Acuff wrote:

> My brother was telling me a story a while back about a fellow he 
> worked with that found an old wood console radio out at the street.  
> He stopped by and pulled the guts out of the thing and carried it into 
> work.  My brother looked at it and was amazed...it was an all chrome 
> chassis and was beautiful....problem was the speaker was still in the 
> cabinet and it was not the permanent magnet type.  The power supply 
> filter choke was the electromagnet for the speaker plus my brother 
> asked what kind of shape the cabinet was in and the guy responded it 
> was in great shape I just didn't know where I was going to put it.  
> After a little research on the web they found it was a fairly 
> expensive set and he rushed back to try and get the cabinet and it was 
> gone so he went to the door and asked the folks that lived in the 
> house.  Their reply was "yea we saw you pull some of the stuff out and 
> figured you would come back for the rest so we put it in the garage" 
> They agreed on $50 and he picked up the rest...turned out to be a very 
> nice radio....seems I remember it was an old Scott.
>
> Cecil...
>