Vermont Broadcasters bring President on board...better latethannever

[Dave Doherty]

I was born in December 1950 in NYC. My dad worked at NBC-TV on the Today 
Show, and we had a TV that was almost always on.

One of my earliest memories is when he bought a car, probably in 1954. He 
said that one of the great features of the car was that it had a radio, and 
he turned it on.

I crawled all over that car looking for the picture!

-Dave Doherty
 Skywaves, Inc.
 Worcester, MA
 508-425-7176


----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Dan.Strassberg" <dan.strassberg@att.net>
To: "A. Joseph Ross" <Joe@attorneyross.com>; "Bill O'Neill" 
<billohno@gmail.com>
Cc: <boston-radio-interest@bostonradio.org>
Sent: Tuesday, April 15, 2008 4:14 PM
Subject: Re: Vermont Broadcasters bring President on board...better 
latethannever


> To put the 1920 $600 figure in context, more than 15 years later, in
> the mid '30s, $600 (then-current dollars) would still buy a complete
> car--a pretty nice one by the standards of the day. And the price very
> likely included the radio, which would have been an add-on to the even
> lower price of the basic car. So we probably can say that $600 in 1920
> or 1936 dollars bought the equivalent of more than $20,000 in 2008
> dollars. If prices have increased by a factor of 32 in 70+ years, they
> have, in effect doubled every 14 years or so, which is only a little
> more than a 5% compound rate of inflation. I find that believable.
>
> -----
> Dan Strassberg (dan.strassberg@att.net)
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>
> ----- Original Message ----- 
> From: "A. Joseph Ross" <Joe@attorneyross.com>
> To: "Bill O'Neill" <billohno@gmail.com>
> Cc: <boston-radio-interest@bostonradio.org>
> Sent: Tuesday, April 15, 2008 4:21 PM
> Subject: Re: Vermont Broadcasters bring President on board...better
> late thannever
>
>
>> On 15 Apr 2008 Bill O'Neill wrote:
>>
>>> The Addison Eagle reported that the Vermont Broadcasters Hall of
>>> Fame.
>>> Citing President Coolidge as the first president to harness the
>>> power
>>> of radio.  Here's the link - http://tinyurl.com/6y89rd
>>>
>>> Interesting story about installing a radio into a car in the 1920s,
>>> and the sets cost over six hundred dollars in 1920 dollars.  Take
>>> that, XM....
>>
>> My father told me that he once had a car radio that clamped onto the
>> stearing column and was removable when you got another car.  This
>> was
>> probably the 1930s, when the price had undoubtedly come down a bit.
>>
>> -- 
>> A. Joseph Ross, J.D.                   617.367.0468
>> 92 State Street, Suite 700            Fax: 617.507.7856
>> Boston, MA 02109-2004           http://www.attorneyross.com
>>
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