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You guys have probably already seen this but still kind of fun.
One of my favorite examples of the place of component audio in social history.
Dress up nicely, now.
I always wear my Brooks Bros suit when listening. ;)
Probably promised to take her out to dinner afterwards...-
Abraham Lincoln was wearing a Brooks Brothers "Frock Coat" when he was killed.
He had arrived at Ford's Theater in a Studebaker carriage.
Brooks Brothers, until not too many years ago, did sell tailored military uniforms, but these days they just sell "Military-Style" outerwear.
Thanks for the historical perspective. Have a couple of their suits, sport coats and dress shirts. I tend to favor brands with a long heritage.
The lineage of a couple of my watches traces back to 1848. My favorite casual shirt brand dates back to 1933.
brooks brother is in a historical government index about the cost of goods , loaf of bread , stuff like that. a brooks brothers suit use to be worth one once of gold back when the tracking started , and when I was reading about this index about a hundred years later, a suit was still worth an once of gold. I don't shop there so couldn't;t give you up to date info.
Also read they don't sell black suits because Lincolns was wearing one when assassinated in a plot by hard core southern raciests .
Also read they don't sell black suits because...
One of my BB suits is black. I guess they eventually got over that.
JFK was wearing a grey Brooks Brothers suit, but IIRC from having read about 200 books about the JFK era and assassination, he was wearing a shirt from Turnbull and Asser.
Dunno what Garfield and McKinley were wearing when they were assassinated.
Ronald Reagan, for whatever reason, broke the streak of US Presidents being inaugurated in BB suits. So I assume when he was shot, he was not wearing BB.
BTW, for many years, BB had a "costume department" that custom-made lavish but hard-wearing costumes for Circus Performers, especially Ringling Brothers.
At least a few years ago, members of at least the US Air and Space Forces could custom-order military dress-suit uniforms from the BB factory in Massachusetts.
Somehow not the Army, Navy, or Marines, but back in history, BB would custom-make uniforms for those branches, and the BB uniforms were legendarily expensive, and regarded as a sign of personal wealth far beyond what the pay was, regardless the grade.
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I would take them over many/most "modern' speakers for musical enjoyment!
Ooh! A dual stator 360pF air variable!
What's with the Morse code chirping in the background ?
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OMG very few could identify that as well as it's C, my detector says radio tendencies haha
Next on guess that part is a 455KHz transformer
Yes, part of the LO & Mixer circuit to convert to a 455-kHz IF which was common in the classic 5-tube superhetrodyne AM receiver. ;-) They were everywhere, at least here in the U.S.
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I remember playing with them as a child, but they didn't hold much play value beyond curiosity.
so, yes, they were everywhere.
I wonder if it will slice cheese.... several slices at once ;-)
Brings back fond memories, i got a Allied Radio knight kit 5 tube radio kit as a kid and had a hallicrafters S-38e short wave next to my bed which was the standard 5 tube radio but had a switch to change the coils so it was .55 to 30MHz.
There is something about old shortwave radios
I had the Hallicrafters SX-71 on loan to me from my uncle. If I recall correctly, the radio had the shortwave bands on the left and wider and more precise tuning (band spread?) for the Ham Radio bands on the right. It was meant mainly for AM & CW reception but would pickup SSB with the CW BFO turned ON and adjusted.
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Lucky kid! That was one of the radio's I longed for, a classic like the sx42.
I bought a 71 to restore a couple years ago but have not gotten around to it.
It turned out about 15 years late, that my s32 was way out of tune and actually was better than it had seemed sigh..
Quads are to be found!
Nt
I am in love with music and like equipment that reproduces it well.
"Once this was all Black Plasma and Imagination" -Michael McClure
"An American psychiatrist calls it audiophilia"
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