I got me a GE transistor radio from 1966 a couple weeks ago at an estate sale. 50 cents… plus $6 to order a replacement battery holder so I wasn’t overdriving it to death with a battery that physically fit but was 1 1/2 times the voltage. Of course, why does a person really get a transistor radio from 1966? To listen to? Of course not! Terrestrial radio’s bland and awful even through a speaker from '66. Nope! To model it, of course! This was a relatively easy model, as models go. The body of
Transistor radios delivered the soundtrack of our lives in the summer of 1966 – Daily Breeze
Six Transistor Twen-Tone 822/663 Radio Neckermann-Versand
Vintage Silver Transistor Radio, Model 6TR-100, AM Band, 6 Transistors, Reverse Paint, Made in Japan By The Shin Shirashuma Denki Mfg. Co., Circa 1959
Collecting Variants
The California Lumber Merchant - August 1966 by 526 Media Group - Issuu
Transistor radios delivered the soundtrack of our lives in the summer of 1966 – Daily Breeze
File:Vintage Hitachi Transistor Radio, Model TH-666, AM Band, 6 Transistors, Made In Japan, Circa 1958 - 1959 (49485464232).jpg - Wikimedia Commons
File:Vintage General Electric Transistor Radio, Model P-746B, White & Turquoise, AM Band, 6 Transistors, Made In USA, Circa 1958 (48992344393).jpg - Wikimedia Commons
GEC STARFINDER 4 Transistor Radio 3 Band - 1970's £0.99 - PicClick UK
GEC STARFINDER 4 Transistor Radio 3 Band - 1970's £0.99 - PicClick UK
File:Vintage Toshiba Transistor Radio (Inside View), Model 8TM-41, AM Band, 8 Transistors, Made In Japan By Tokyo Shibaura Electric Company, Distributed By Transistor World Corporation, Circa 1961 (48601189707).jpg - Wikimedia Commons
Vintage Global Transistor Radio, Model GR-711, AM Band, 6 Transistors, Made In Japan, Circa 1959 - 1962