{"id":35051,"date":"2018-12-03T07:20:25","date_gmt":"2018-12-03T11:20:25","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/swling.com\/blog\/?p=35051"},"modified":"2018-12-03T07:20:25","modified_gmt":"2018-12-03T11:20:25","slug":"interesting-collection-of-novelty-radios","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/swling.com\/blog\/2018\/12\/interesting-collection-of-novelty-radios\/","title":{"rendered":"Interesting collection of novelty radios"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"attachment_35052\" style=\"width: 475px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a href=\"https:\/\/swling.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/12\/Noelty-Radio.jpeg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-35052\" class=\"size-full wp-image-35052\" src=\"https:\/\/swling.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/12\/Noelty-Radio.jpeg\" alt=\"\" width=\"465\" height=\"386\" srcset=\"https:\/\/swling.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/12\/Noelty-Radio.jpeg 465w, https:\/\/swling.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/12\/Noelty-Radio-300x249.jpeg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 465px) 100vw, 465px\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-35052\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Image source: Dangerousminds.net<\/p><\/div>\n<p>Many thanks to <em>SWLing Post<\/em> contributor, Mike Addy, who shares a link to this large collection of novelty radios:<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><a href=\"https:\/\/dangerousminds.net\/comments\/radio_radio_behold_the_greatest_collection_of_novelty_radios_known_to_manki\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Click here to view on Dangerous Minds.<\/a><\/p>\n<p>I recognize a couple of those radios, but there are so many promotional sets I had never seen before. Who would have thought of a canned Pineapple radio?\u00a0 Love it!<\/p>\n<p><strong><em>Post<\/em> readers:<\/strong> Do you have any interesting novelty radios?\u00a0 Please comment!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Many thanks to SWLing Post contributor, Mike Addy, who shares a link to this large collection of novelty radios: Click here to view on Dangerous Minds. I recognize a couple of those radios, but there are so many promotional sets I had never seen before. Who would have thought of a canned Pineapple radio?\u00a0 Love [&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":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[3,305,26],"tags":[7221,7452],"class_list":["post-35051","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news","category-nostalgia","category-radios","tag-michael-addy","tag-novelty-radios"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/pn3uc-97l","jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":35125,"url":"https:\/\/swling.com\/blog\/2018\/12\/mikes-impressive-collection-of-early-production-transistor-radios\/","url_meta":{"origin":35051,"position":0},"title":"Mike&#8217;s impressive collection of early production transistor radios","author":"Thomas","date":"December 9, 2018","format":false,"excerpt":"Many thanks to SWLing Post contributor, Mike Thomas, who shares the following reply to our recently post highlighting a number of novelty radios. Mike writes: That is a nice collection of novelty radios. I have a few of them but tend to focus on early production transistors. 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