{"id":2291,"date":"2011-12-02T08:48:29","date_gmt":"2011-12-02T12:48:29","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/swling.com\/blog\/?p=2291"},"modified":"2011-12-02T08:48:29","modified_gmt":"2011-12-02T12:48:29","slug":"john-allen-keeps-radio-history-alive","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/swling.com\/blog\/2011\/12\/john-allen-keeps-radio-history-alive\/","title":{"rendered":"John Allen keeps radio history alive"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/swling.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/12\/delmarvanow_logo.gif\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignright size-full wp-image-2292\" title=\"delmarvanow_logo\" src=\"http:\/\/swling.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/12\/delmarvanow_logo.gif\" alt=\"\" width=\"184\" height=\"57\" srcset=\"https:\/\/swling.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/12\/delmarvanow_logo.gif 230w, https:\/\/swling.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/12\/delmarvanow_logo-100x30.gif 100w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 184px) 100vw, 184px\" \/><\/a>(Source: <a title=\"Delmarva Now\" href=\"http:\/\/www.delmarvanow.com\/article\/20111129\/ENTERTAINMENT09\/111129021\/-Radio-Man-keeps-history-alive?odyssey=nav|head\" target=\"_blank\">Delmarva Now<\/a>)<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>A fat and sassy black cat purrs in John Allen&#8217;s lap. Relaxing in his favorite chair, Allen&#8217;s fingers vanished into the silky fur as he stroked his cat while listening to the Big Band sounds coming through a 1930s radio.<\/p>\n<p>With its warm wood finish and the soft yellow glow of light from the dial, the vintage radio is as soothing as the thin shadows in the room.<\/p>\n<p>[&#8230;]Stacked neatly in his living room are a dozen or so radios from the past. The sets are piled several deep. Other are stored in his shop, tucked tightly on shelves.<\/p>\n<p>[&#8230;]&#8221;Maybe if you count the regular radios, the military radios, and the spy radios, I might have a little more than 200,&#8221; he said.<\/p>\n<p>That&#8217;s right, he said &#8220;spy radios.&#8221;<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Click hear to read the full story on\u00a0<a title=\"Delmarva Now\" href=\"http:\/\/www.delmarvanow.com\/article\/20111129\/ENTERTAINMENT09\/111129021\/-Radio-Man-keeps-history-alive?odyssey=nav|head\" target=\"_blank\">Delmarva Now<\/a>. If you like this sort of article, you have to check out the <a title=\"Radio Documentary: The Wireless World of Gerry Wells\" href=\"http:\/\/swling.com\/blog\/2011\/02\/radio-documentary-the-wireless-world-of-gerry-wells\/\" target=\"_blank\">BBC radio documentary on Gerry Wells<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>(Source: Delmarva Now) A fat and sassy black cat purrs in John Allen&#8217;s lap. Relaxing in his favorite chair, Allen&#8217;s fingers vanished into the silky fur as he stroked his cat while listening to the Big Band sounds coming through a 1930s radio. With its warm wood finish and the soft yellow glow of light [&hellip;]<\/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":[373,8,305,5],"tags":[697,4091],"class_list":["post-2291","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-am","category-articles","category-nostalgia","category-swlers","tag-john-allen","tag-radio-history"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/pn3uc-AX","jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":39835,"url":"https:\/\/swling.com\/blog\/2019\/09\/amazon-price-drop-eton-elite-executive-portable-now-129-99\/","url_meta":{"origin":2291,"position":0},"title":"Amazon Price Drop: Eton Elite Executive Portable Now $129.99","author":"Guy Atkins","date":"September 26, 2019","format":false,"excerpt":"The relatively new Eton Elite Executive, formerly Eton Executive Satellit, has dropped $50 USD on its Amazon page to $129.99: This rather major price drop lowers the cost to just $20 more than Amazon's price for the older, silver-cased Eton Executive Satellit. 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