Speaker 1: My goodness, coming in loud and clear on a Saturday
Speaker 1: morning on the Saturday Morning edition. It's twelve minutes past
Speaker 1: the hour on the radio. And Gary Jeff speaking of
Speaker 1: on the radio. A guy who's enjoyed a lot of time.
Speaker 1: I guess he's enjoyed sometime with us over the years.
Speaker 1: We've enjoyed him for certain, is always on the radio
Speaker 1: or on a radio, or doing something with a radio,
Speaker 1: something that's radio related. And it's even in his name,
Speaker 1: old radio. Rick Washburn's standing by or sitting by? Or
Speaker 1: are you standing or sitting.
Speaker 2: Sitting?
Speaker 3: Are you walking or driving?
Speaker 2: I am radioing. I'm actually I figured you were elbow
Speaker 2: deep in another radio.
Speaker 3: Elbow deep.
Speaker 1: As long as you're not knee deep, then that could
Speaker 1: cause problems, all right, So how how are you receiving
Speaker 1: us and what are you working on this morning, mister Washburn?
Speaker 2: Well, as you already teased, loud and clear, it's five
Speaker 2: by five And this is only one that is near
Speaker 2: and dear to the hearts of many. It's a Crosley
Speaker 2: D twenty five. This one, in particularly is a D
Speaker 2: twenty five MN, which stands for maroon. They use are
Speaker 2: big light radios that came in about oh gosh, a
Speaker 2: dozen different colors. They're gorgeous. Known as the dashboard. These
Speaker 2: are alarm clock radios with the clock on the left
Speaker 2: and the radio dial on the right, and it kind
Speaker 2: of looks like a tachometer and a speedometer.
Speaker 3: And what year is this again?
Speaker 2: Nineteen fifty one, and it's a five tube known as
Speaker 2: the All American five, which was a standard American design
Speaker 2: where basically everybody had to pay the same fees for
Speaker 2: the standard patents. But very very basic radio and yet
Speaker 2: a very good radio. And Crasley was one of the few,
Speaker 2: even though in nineteen forty five they'd already sold out
Speaker 2: to Avco. Avco kept the tradition of high quality radios,
Speaker 2: and these were not like a lot of nineteen fifty
Speaker 2: and nineteen fifties radios where they were just cheap as
Speaker 2: companies were trying to survive. They still has a metal
Speaker 2: chassis and quality components, and even even the tubes were
Speaker 2: sourced from some of the leading companies and so forth,
Speaker 2: so you know, they even under Avco, Crosley still wasn't
Speaker 2: missing around these great stuff. Even the knobs are like
Speaker 2: they're large, and they're colored the same as the as
Speaker 2: the radio cabinet, but with brass trim, just as the
Speaker 2: clock and the radio atile have brass trim around them.
Speaker 3: And that was beautiful. Can I can I get a
Speaker 3: Can you send me a screenshot of that?
Speaker 2: I would be glad to do it. They're just gorgeous
Speaker 2: and loved and not surprisingly highly desired. Luckily they made
Speaker 2: a lot of them. But on top of all that,
Speaker 2: this one has been basically unmessed with, other than the
Speaker 2: horrific amount of adhesive tape used to splice on a
Speaker 2: new power cord. Kids don't do that. Yeah, Nonetheless otherwise unmolested,
Speaker 2: so gooy digging into replacing out all the old wax
Speaker 2: paper pastors in it, and a screw had fallen out
Speaker 2: of one of the adjusters at one point, and so
Speaker 2: the thing has not worked for many years as well
Speaker 2: as it could have because it was missing a screw
Speaker 2: and a little thin piece of silver mica.
Speaker 3: So there you go, so unmolested in at least until
Speaker 3: you got your hands on it.
Speaker 2: Oh yes, I'm molesting the heck out of it. Wait
Speaker 2: can you say that on the radio?
Speaker 3: Yeah? I can say it on the radio, but not
Speaker 3: on the podcast. Yeah.
Speaker 2: Trademark well, just remember, based on the catalog from eighteen
Speaker 2: fifty one, you're really there with the crosley. Okay, still
Speaker 2: not one hundred percent sure what that.
Speaker 3: Means, but or or where they're there, where there is.
Speaker 2: The definition of is is yet to back up to that.
Speaker 3: Oh, thank you, thank you President Clinton.
Speaker 2: Exactly. Well, just remember shelbador refrigerators, frost masters, kitchen sinks
Speaker 2: and cabinets, ranges, radios, radio phonographs, FM, television towards shortwaves
Speaker 2: and home of WLW.
Speaker 3: Excellent.
Speaker 1: He he had quite an empire going at that time.
Speaker 1: Oh indeed, not to mention the cars, well, listen as
Speaker 1: always a treat, my friend.
Speaker 3: How are you doing in general? You okay?
Speaker 2: Hell yeah, yeah, yeah, we're hanging in there, re recovering.
Speaker 2: But the note to self when you go to a funeral,
Speaker 2: don't drive a windowless white van like I do, because
Speaker 2: everyone's gonna think you're the floorest.
Speaker 1: To find out more good old radio Rick at gmail
Speaker 1: dot com.
Speaker 3: Mam, try.
Speaker 4: What is funny?
Speaker 5: Papal you sermish?
Speaker 4: Well, they gone holidays a Sunday.
Speaker 5: I can't wait to look at his face and Harry
Speaker 5: f well done, my faith of servant, Rah, How that
Speaker 5: a faithful way. Christ one of his morning got a
Speaker 5: walk cords child, walk around head, walk around head to
Speaker 5: walk around head.
Speaker 1: Hart ay, man, Wow, you got that voice going. You
Speaker 1: got that high notes this week. You're not too froggy.
Speaker 4: Yeah, but it could have been better waiting on the phone.
Speaker 4: My mouth got dried right before she brought the phone.
Speaker 4: I just put the water in my mouth like wine
Speaker 4: tasted to do it and spit it out to wet
Speaker 4: my mouth.
Speaker 1: Well, yeah, I think you're absolutely adorable, and thank you
Speaker 1: so much for gracing us with your presence and your
Speaker 1: beautiful voice.
Speaker 3: Mommentry, how's the week been?
Speaker 4: Okay, it's been great. I wish I could be at
Speaker 4: huddles this week for a certain day. That's my son's
Speaker 4: birthday too.
Speaker 3: What April fourt me and you together April fourteenth? Yes,
Speaker 3: oh the captain.
Speaker 4: Forty years ago. I'm old, but I'm thirty seven.
Speaker 1: Yeah, I've never quite understood how you're thirty seven. But
Speaker 1: you're obviously, I mean, admittedly older than that.
Speaker 4: Well I was when I was nineteen. He was thirty.
Speaker 4: I said I got to do betterly he got sixty.
Speaker 4: I said, I'm thirty seven.
Speaker 3: When he was nineteen, you were thirty.
Speaker 4: Oh I was nineteen. Okay, it was thirty. So he
Speaker 4: started getting older and him when he turned sixty, I said,
Speaker 4: I got to be thirty seven.
Speaker 3: Again, you're talking about your son.
Speaker 4: Yeah, I said, was sixty four.
Speaker 1: But no, I mean I'm going back. You were nineteen
Speaker 1: and he was thirty. How does that workmometry? The math
Speaker 1: isn't driving up there.
Speaker 4: We traveled in different circles. They didn't know you most son.
Speaker 4: They got it with my brother, so we looked like twins.
Speaker 3: So how old were you when you had your son?
Speaker 4: Eighteen?
Speaker 3: And by the time you were nineteen he was thirty.
Speaker 4: No, the time he was thirty, I was nineteen.
Speaker 3: Do you understand how crazy this sounds, don't you?
Speaker 4: My math is different, darling.
Speaker 3: Apparently all right, I have a fantastic day. Dear, thank you,
Speaker 3: bye bye. I love her to death.