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  1. vitanola

    Show us your vehicles

    It was indeed luck. The car is an AACA Senior prize winner in its class. It was restored nearly forty years ago, a bolt by bolt renovation. It still looks as if new, which makes sense, for it has been driven but 67 miles since its restoration.
  2. vitanola

    Show us your vehicles

    Spring and autumn driver. Something a bit faster than a Flivver.
  3. vitanola

    Show us your vehicles

    Lust brought this home today. A ‘28 Dodge Brothers Victory Six Brougham. About a hundred miles on her since a nut-and bolt restoration- in 1985. She’ll need a little sorting out.
  4. vitanola

    Show us your vehicles

    Love the color scheme!
  5. vitanola

    The Era -- Day By Day

    Davega started out as a dealer in bicycles and talking machines, two businesses which complemented each other quite well, for the selling season for each item was during the other’s slow period. The firm was a big presence in the early Radio business, and by the mid-1920s carried full lines of...
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    So trivial, yet it really ticks you off.

    Well, now the yahoos can have an Uncle Josh sort of Fourth of July.
  8. vitanola

    The Era -- Day By Day

    “If you're driving an injured person to the hospital, maybe you shouln't put him in the rumble seat.” Of course not. Heaven forbid! Everybody knows the purpose of a rumble seat, and it’s not THAT.
  9. vitanola

    The Era -- Day By Day

    That’s a sensational value, but 1938 model? HAH! That’s a 1935-6 Grunow or Majestic refrigerator, bankrupt stock. Davega was notorious for this sort of thing. They’d buy a quantity of radios or other appliances form a bankruptcy trustee, stock which might have been a few years old because of...
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    The Era -- Day By Day

    We had a neighbor, a physician, who brought his dog, a pit bull, to his new marital home. After three infant children came in something of a lump, the poor dog was consigned to a kennel in the yard, practically ignored and starved for attention. One day he met our cat, who climbed on, dug is...
  11. vitanola

    The Era -- Day By Day

    Those I. E. S. Lamps, with their 100-200-300 watt three way lamp in the reflector and three sixty watt lamps on the sockets on the arms were part of the electrical industry’s “better Light for Better Sight” campaign. They could fill the gloomiest of rooms with a clear, shadow free light, and...
  13. vitanola

    Electrolux vacuum

    Kirby and Filter Queen and Rainbow are still built in Cleveland.
  14. vitanola

    Electrolux vacuum

    Ohioans should know, for the Hoover, the Kirby, the Royal, the Hood Housekeeper, the Electro-Hygiene, the Air-Way, the Filter Queen, the Wireless Vacuette, the Premier, the Rexair, the Westinghouse, the Geir Special, the Scott, the Rainbow, and the General Electric sweepers all originated in...
  15. vitanola

    The Centenary of Radio

    I’ve got a couple of better double button microphones, a 389 in a desk stand and a 600 in a 1A housing, but both of them would be inappropriate for a transmitter with a magnetic modulator. I suppose I could go with plate modulation and get the KDKA sound. What do you think, Miss Maine?
  16. vitanola

    The Centenary of Radio

    I’m planning to use a telephone transmitter, a Western Electric 285 White Solid Back, as used on the DeForest OT-10, the transmitter used here in Detroit at 8MK. Yes, I will have a nice Chippendale Diamond Disc phonograph sitting next to the transmitting desk, in fact the 8MK picture is the...
  17. vitanola

    The Centenary of Radio

    The centenary of the generally accepted (thanks to the publicity departments of the Westinghouse Electric and Manufacturing Company and the Radio Corporation) inauguration of radio broadcasting is fast approaching. On November 2nd 1920 Station KDKA broadcast the Harding-Cox election returns...
  19. vitanola

    The Era -- Day By Day

    Where’d you get hold of the GOOD stuff?
  20. vitanola

    Do you think there could be a second Great Depression?

    In nearly sixty years on this earth, with a rather wide acquaintance, I have never personally known anyone who died of Influenza. I have known five people so far who have died of COVID19, two of whom were under fifty. This sad tally does not include my secretary’s mother, whom I never had the...
  21. vitanola

    Electrolux vacuum

    We have an Electrolux as our “above the floor” machine on the second floor of the big house. On the first floor we use a little Premier which can hang from a shoulder strap. For the rugs we still use uprights, a Hoover 725 upstairs, and a Premier Duplex down.
  22. vitanola

    The Era -- Day By Day

    That makes three of us.
  23. vitanola

    The Era -- Day By Day

    “I had no idea a machine shop could be such a hotbed of intrigue.” I gather that you’ve never worked in one.

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