On a personal note, I am the proud owner of a Zenith Trans-Oceanic B-600, the final model made in the early 1960s. After cleaning it up, replacing the dial cord and dial light, I hooked it up to a ...

Finally, on the right-hand side, from the top: a 1960 Sarkes Tarzian 723-501 FM-only table-top receiver (Tarzian’s company was known for manufacturing the early blue-colored selenium rectifier diode ...

A curvy Zenith radio with a large clear dial from the late ’40s helps him picture the atomic age when people were enamored of science fiction, such as “The Day the Earth Stood Still” and ...