It beats Uncle Gus's accordion.

[baron-waste.livejournal.com]

Popular Science, March 1922 - image courtesy Modern Mechanix

That's a serious long-wave aerial over the roof of that house.

Comments

[albear.livejournal.com]

That is an awesome ad! Having this baby in 1922 would have made you extremely, SUPER cool! live wireless music! high tech!

I bet you could pick up radio stations from almost all over the world with such a huge antenna.

Again, awesome ad!

[tanwen.livejournal.com]

Combination aerial & clothesline!

Wooo! Radio!

[metalwheaties.livejournal.com]

You obviously didn't grow up with Ham Radio in the household. My dad is a Ham, and I was (now expired license, but once you are one, you never really recover) starting when I was ten. We had shit all over the roof, trees around the house, masts in the back yard (remind me to tell you of when I climbed the tower to cut down the huge beam antenna in the eye of a hurricane at age 15).

I love this ad. Thank you for posting it.