{"id":1334,"date":"2011-07-18T11:45:54","date_gmt":"2011-07-18T16:45:54","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/swling.com\/blog\/?p=1334"},"modified":"2011-07-18T11:45:54","modified_gmt":"2011-07-18T16:45:54","slug":"wnyc-features-leeds-radio","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/swling.com\/blog\/2011\/07\/wnyc-features-leeds-radio\/","title":{"rendered":"WNYC features Leeds Radio"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"\"<\/a>(Source: WNYC<\/a>)<\/p>\n

Now it’s 1952 all over again,” Richard Matthews said with satisfaction, after buffing a small black radio knob to a shiny gleam. “It’s beautiful.”<\/p>\n

For those who tinker like it’s 1959, Leed’s Radio<\/a> is Candyland. This 2,500 square foot warehouse is literally jam packed with an inventory of between three to five million parts, including vacuum tubes, transformers, coils, knobs, switches, light bulbs and just about anything requisite for a radio made before 1965. Some of the stock dates back to 1919, a few years before the original Leeds opened on Manhattan’s Radio Row in 1923.<\/p>\n

But with the exception of the hulking 1940s-era Radio Free Europe machine in Matthews’ office, you won’t find a completely assembled radio here. Leeds is a store for people who like to build and tinker with antique technology, not for those who want to purchase pristine relics.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

Listen to the full show at the WNYC website<\/a>\u00a0and browse Leeds Radio’s website<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

(Source: WNYC) Now it’s 1952 all over again,” Richard Matthews said with satisfaction, after buffing a small black radio knob to a shiny gleam. “It’s beautiful.” For those who tinker like it’s 1959, Leed’s Radio is Candyland. This 2,500 square foot warehouse is literally jam packed with an inventory of between three to five million […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":15,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[8],"tags":[464,462,465,463],"class_list":["post-1334","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-articles","tag-antique-radio","tag-leeds-radio","tag-radio-documentaries","tag-wnyc"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/pn3uc-lw","jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":2238,"url":"https:\/\/swling.com\/blog\/2011\/11\/leeds-radio-featured-in-the-ny-times\/","url_meta":{"origin":1334,"position":0},"title":"Leeds Radio featured in the NY Times","author":"Thomas","date":"November 20, 2011","format":false,"excerpt":"(Source: NY Times) WHEN an insurance company declared the merchandise at Leeds Radio \u201cnot pilferable\u201d last year, it meant that the store\u2019s hundreds of thousands of analog electronic parts \u2014 all manufactured before 1968 \u2014 were unlikely to be stolen anytime soon. 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