Archive for April 7th, 2022

A FINE RETRO RADIO FROM 1948 ~

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Vintage Truetone Portable Radio, Model D3840, AM Band, 6 Vacuum Tubes.   

Truetone was the private label radio, television and electronics
brand of Western Auto Supply Company of Kansas City,
Missouri.

In the late 1920s, radio was taking the country by storm and
Western Auto was looking for new items to add to its line of
merchandise.

After selling radio tubes under its "Wizard" brand in the 1920s,
the company offered its first Truetone brand radios in 1931.
 

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FIRST & ONLY AWARD ON THIS DAY IN 1970

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Barbra Streisand plants a kiss Duke’s cheek after presenting
him with his career’s only Academy Award.

On April 7, 1970, the legendary actor John Wayne wins his first—
and only—acting Academy Award, for his star turn in the director
Henry Hathaway’s Western True Grit.

Wayne appeared in some 150 movies over the course of his long
and storied career.

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John Wayne (Marion Robert Morrison)
(May 26, 1907 – June 11, 1979)

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