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This is your last week to catch all the tunes in "On The Radio." "On the Radio" is on display, post-security, in Terminal 3. https://t.co/cgKA2d0QTQ #RadioSFOThis tweet was posted on November 26, 2018.
The halcyon days of sitting by the wireless and listening to your favorite radio program may be in the past but these beautiful radios live on in our exhibition. What is your favorite radio memory? #RadioSFOThis tweet was posted on November 26, 2018.
By 1964, more than 61,000 roadside motor hotels, commonly known as motels, dotted America’s highways and byways. Many motel proprietors installed coin-operated #radios in their rooms to maximize profits. #radioSFOThis tweet was posted on October 24, 2018.
Coin-operated radios provided an hour of entertainment at the drop of a quarter or dime. Manufactured from the late 1940s into the 1950s, these novel radios are indicative of a bygone era. #radioSFOThis tweet was posted on October 24, 2018.
#BingCrosby gained fame on live radio and by the late 1940s, the singer hosted a pre-recorded #radio show and marketed a radio-phonograph combo for #Philco. #radioSFO This tweet was posted on October 18, 2018.
Radio is courtesy of California Historical Radio Society. "On the Radio" is on display, post-security, in Terminal 3. https://t.co/1nHbV738Te #RadioSFO#radio#radiosThis tweet was posted on October 11, 2018.
#Bakelite was the first molded plastic used to make radio housings, produced in unfinished brown, or with painted coatings that were prone to scratches and paint loss. #radioSFOThis tweet was posted on October 11, 2018.
"On the Radio" is on display, post-security, in Terminal 3. https://t.co/1nHbV7kJKM #RadioSFOThis tweet was posted on October 02, 2018.
Did you know our exhibition, "On The Radio" is full of local Bay Area history? During the 1920s, some of the best-performing crystal #radio sets such as the wooden one shown here were manufactured by Uncle Al’s #Radio Shop in #Oakland, #California. #RadioSFO This tweet was posted on October 02, 2018.
#Radio was utilized as an informational resource, perhaps no more eloquently than by Franklin D. Roosevelt. Beginning in 1933, the president embarked on a series of Sunday-evening “Fireside Chats” produced in an informal, yet comforting manner on current events. #RadioSFO This tweet was posted on September 11, 2018.