{"id":49008,"date":"2021-05-24T05:38:31","date_gmt":"2021-05-24T09:38:31","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/swling.com\/blog\/?p=49008"},"modified":"2021-05-22T09:43:23","modified_gmt":"2021-05-22T13:43:23","slug":"circa-1959-spectra-radio-spectacles","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/swling.com\/blog\/2021\/05\/circa-1959-spectra-radio-spectacles\/","title":{"rendered":"Circa 1959 Spectra-Radio Spectacles"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"\"<\/a>Many thanks to SWLing Post<\/em> contributor, Mario Filippi, who writes:<\/p>\n

While perusing through a 1959 Lafayette Radio sales flyer, this hybrid radio\/sunglasses radio was spotted (see image above). Put a huge smile on my face–a three-transistor, germanium diode model hihi. Runs on a Mercury battery which were common years back.<\/strong><\/p>\n

That is fantastic, Mario! Love it.<\/p>\n

I can tell you that I think Spectra-Radio seem a lot cooler than Google Glasses! Thank you for sharing!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Many thanks to SWLing Post contributor, Mario Filippi, who writes: While perusing through a 1959 Lafayette Radio sales flyer, this hybrid radio\/sunglasses radio was spotted (see image above). Put a huge smile on my face–a three-transistor, germanium diode model hihi. Runs on a Mercury battery which were common years back. That is fantastic, Mario! Love […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":15,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","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],"tags":[4101,4311,4094,1302,9286],"class_list":["post-49008","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news","category-nostalgia","tag-funny","tag-mario-filippi-n2hun","tag-nostalgia","tag-radio-nostalgia","tag-spectra-radio"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/pn3uc-cKs","jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":43013,"url":"https:\/\/swling.com\/blog\/2020\/04\/trans-oceanic-spotted-in-1959-film-on-the-beach\/","url_meta":{"origin":49008,"position":0},"title":"Trans-Oceanic spotted in 1959 film “On the Beach”","author":"Thomas","date":"April 26, 2020","format":false,"excerpt":"Many thanks to SWLing Post contributor, Mario Filippi (N2HUN), who writes: Maybe this is old news but in the 1959 film \"On the Beach\" which was from the book by Nevil Shute, there is a Zenith transoceanic shortwave radio in this clip from the film. 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