{"id":58224,"date":"2023-11-18T09:39:16","date_gmt":"2023-11-18T13:39:16","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/swling.com\/blog\/?p=58224"},"modified":"2023-11-18T09:39:16","modified_gmt":"2023-11-18T13:39:16","slug":"mark-spots-a-vintage-radio-in-taxi-driver","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/swling.com\/blog\/2023\/11\/mark-spots-a-vintage-radio-in-taxi-driver\/","title":{"rendered":"Mark spots a vintage radio in ‘Taxi Driver’"},"content":{"rendered":"

Many thanks to SWLing Post<\/em> contributor, Mark Hirst, who writes:<\/strong><\/p>\n

Thomas,<\/p>\n

I’ve been deep down the k-drama rabbit hole for months now and I’m trying to familiarise myself with the Korean language at the same time.<\/p>\n

I’ve just started a new series called ‘Taxi Driver’ and this radio cassette player popped up in the first episode. It shouts ‘shortwave receiver’ to me, but what I think is the manufacturer logo is blacked out in the top left corner.<\/p>\n

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I’m wondering if anyone recognises the model; it has a late seventies Panasonic or Sony vibe to me.<\/p>\n

Mark<\/p>\n

Readers: please comment if you can identify this radio for Mark!<\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Many thanks to SWLing Post contributor, Mark Hirst, who writes: Thomas, I’ve been deep down the k-drama rabbit hole for months now and I’m trying to familiarise myself with the Korean language at the same time. I’ve just started a new series called ‘Taxi Driver’ and this radio cassette player popped up in the first […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":15,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_feature_clip_id":0,"_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},"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[3,305,4796],"tags":[5458,5506],"class_list":["post-58224","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news","category-nostalgia","category-vintage-radio","tag-mark-hirst","tag-radios-in-movies"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/pn3uc-f96","jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":30918,"url":"https:\/\/swling.com\/blog\/2018\/02\/mark-spots-a-vintage-radio-in-travelers\/","url_meta":{"origin":58224,"position":0},"title":"Mark spots a vintage radio in “Travelers”","author":"Thomas","date":"February 27, 2018","format":false,"excerpt":"Many thanks to\u00a0SWLing Post\u00a0contributor,\u00a0Mark Hirst, who adds the following to\u00a0our growing archive of radios in film. 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