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SOME GREAT RADIO WAS HEARD HERE!

1935 Truetone Console Radio 3 Band AM Shortwave Full | Etsy

1935 Truetone (Western Auto) 3-band console radio.

Truetone was the private label radio, television and electronics
brand of Western Auto Supply Company of Kansas City, Missouri. Western Auto was a company founded in 1909 to sell tires and automobile supplies for the Model T Ford and other cars through
its catalogs and, starting in 1913, through retail stores in Kansas
City and other major cities. In 1915, Western Auto was split into
two companies, one in California and one in Kansas City.

These were separate companies with a common founder and they
had virtually identical catalogs and merchandise offerings. The
two companies merged again in the mid 1950s.

In the late 1920s Western Auto was looking for new items to add to
its merchandise lines. After selling radio tubes under its "Wizard"
brand in the 1920s, the company offered its first Truetone brand
radios in 1931. Truetone was the radio brand sold by Western Auto
of Kansas City while the California company sold its radios under
the name "Western Air Patrol."

1935 Truetone Console Radio 3 Band AM Shortwave Full | Etsy

1935 Truetone Console Radio 3 Band AM Shortwave Full | Etsy

TrueTone Dial-O-Matic radio ad from Sept 1937 | Vintage radio, Jukeboxes, Radio
1937

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A WHOLESOME FOOD PRODUCT FOR 1916

Researching Relatives: New Year Advertisement, 1916

Campbell soup company was started in 1869 by Joseph A.
Campbell
, a fruit merchant from Bridgeton, New Jersey, and
Abraham Anderson, an icebox manufacturer from South
Jersey
. They produced canned tomatoes, vegetables, jellies,
soups,
condiments, and minced meats.

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Joseph Albert Campbell
(1817 – 1900)

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The Jos. A. Campbell Preserve Co., Camden, NJ in 1894.

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Exterior view of the new World HQ building in Camden, N.J.

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FOUR FAMOUS FLAVORS FOR THE NEW YEAR

1935 Wrigley's Spearmint Gum Ad ~ Father Time, New Year Baby, Vintage Candy & Gum Ads | Vintage ...

Wrigley’s Spearmint brand chewing gum was launched in 1893 and  
was originally marketed by being given away free with the purchase
of baking soda. It became so popular that it was then eventually sold separately as a desired commodity.
(From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia)

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THE NEW CHRISTMAS BULBS FOR THE 1950s

30 Vintage Christmas Ads From the 1950s ~ Vintage Everyday

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INVENTION ANNOUNCED ON THIS DAY

Graphophone | Cinéma, Opéra, Radios

The phonograph was invented in 1877 by Thomas Edison,
Alexander Graham Bell‘s Volta Laboratory made several
improvements in the 1880s and introduced the graphophone,
including the use of wax-coated cardboard cylinders and a
cutting stylus that moved from side to side in a zigzag groove
around the record. In the 1890s,
Emile Berliner initiated the
transition from
phonograph cylinders to flat discs with a spiral
groove running from the periphery to near the center, coining
the term gramophone for disc record players.

Edison's Invention of the Phonograph
Thomas Alva Edison (February 11, 1847 – October 18, 1931)

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