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In many ways, Lenin was quite the bastard. But he died in 1924, long before any Beatles could even begin corrupting your daughters. I think the author's beef is really with Stalin but he doesn't seem to know the difference. In this 1922 picture, that's Lenin's on the left, and Stalin is on the right. It's the guys with hair.. you've really got to watch out for.
Communism, Hypnotism and the Beatles by David A. Noebel
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In many ways, Lenin was quite the bastard. But he died in 1924, long before any Beatles could even begin corrupting your daughters. I think the author's beef is really with Stalin but he doesn't seem to know the difference. In this 1922 picture, that's Lenin's on the left, and Stalin is on the right. It's the guys with hair.. you've really got to watch out for.
Communism, Hypnotism and the Beatles by David A. Noebel
youtube.com/@collectornet
#bald, #baldness #lenin #stalin #communists #shorts
![1949 Episode 8 - Auto Service Postcards - Get that tune-up! This time we MEAN it!
One Sour Note will rob you of power, economy, and smoothness. You dont want that.
One Sour Note in your engine , I guess it is. Thats the impression were given. What would such a note be? A klank, a whhirrrr, a glibble globblle? Well, whatever the note, you can say Goodbye Power, Economy, [and] Smoothness!
So.., oh no.. what do we do about it? Well...
Tuning up an engine means getting countless parts running together smoothly; timed so each part does its job efficiently. It will save you money! When your car was in recently we found that it needed a tune-up. Leaving it out-of-tune simply means more wear to the parts that are affected. By taking care of this now we can prevent needless trouble and expense.
So yeah, dont klank. Dont be a glibble globblle. Take your car into Kramer-Eberts today. And dont forget to ask for Pennzoil motor oil and lubricants. We sponsored this card. Its the least you can do.
Check out the other cards in this series, Did Ja Know we feel like a million dollars every time to bring your car to us.
And Congratulations on Your New Car
And theres Youre Car Warranty Check-up Is Due!
Episode 4 deals with brakes. Its time for brake inspection.
Episode 5 says Its tune-up time.
And in Episode 6 we hear that Hot Tempers wont start cold engines! And thats the truth.
Next comes We Thank You, a gracious message from a time gone by.
And the card we looked at today, in Episode 8, where we heard again the case for why your car needs a tune-up.
And the last in our series, Episode 9, deals with bodywork and touchups.
All brought to you by the Pennzoil people, who made these cards and supplied them to dealers and auto service centers as a kind of public service and to help drum up business for the shops. 1949 Episode 8 - Auto Service Postcards - Get that tune-up! This time we MEAN it!](https://i.ytimg.com/vi/4MzelQ6KNNQ/mqdefault.jpg)






![The hideous 1957 DuMont transistor radio
If I werent, in my collecting habits, a completist, .. I wouldnt have a radio like this. But I AM a completist and theres just nothing to be done about that now.
DuMont is an old name in the electronics business. And a big name. To help them sell the television sets they were pioneering in the 1930s, they formed in 1940 their own television network.
Yes, DuMont Presents the DuMont Television Network.. DuMont competed successfully with the likes of NBC and CBS in television broadcasting for sixteen years. What happened to the DuMont network in the mid-1950s is a long, convoluted story that ends, decades later, in a network we now know as Fox.
The DuMont company that is to say DuMont Laboratories was founded in New Jersey in 1931. They are thought of these days only in terms of television TV broadcasting, and the making of TV sets. For example as of this moment, Wikipedia doesnt even mention that DuMont made radios. Well, Wikipedia doesnt know everything.
Looking like the sort of radio that would appeal to a pipe-smoking guy with a moose head hanging in his den, this is the DuMont 1210. All these straps and snaps and rivets and brads give the thing a real luggage kind of feel. Its overall look is somewhere between a baseball glove and a steamer trunk. Boxy would be the word for it, I guess, if you wanted to use just one word.
The dial here is just about the most fashionable thing here. And practical too, since its underpainted, the dial numbers wont wear off because, of course, they are literally painted on the underside. The rest of the decoration on the front is gold foil stamping which DOES wear off. Its not worn too badly here, but this style of applying lettering and logos was not terribly permanent. I think it may actually last longer on leather like this than it does on plastic. This radio might look better if the gold decoration on the front DID wear off. Heres the logo itself, just so you can fully appreciate what Im saying. This logo, and in fact the entire design of the front of this radio, is what designers would typically characterize as..well.. hideous.
Inside, the label says Du Mont model 1210 portable transistor radio, 9 volts, six 1-1/2 volt batteries, Allen B. Du Mont Laboratories, Bloomfield Avenue, Clifton, New Jersey. And here it shows the placement of the six transistors. This thing over the battery compartment says To change batteries, remove this cover & replace six C size batteries Eveready No. 935 or Burgess No. 1 or equivalent. Caution: Do not leave depleted batteries in case; [in case of what?] replace all six batteries at same time.
It looks like some of those batteries have leaked over the years. Havent we all. Its not easy to see much in here. Theres a circuit board. I see some General Electric transistors, in the top hat style. Those are the ones that look like Abraham Lincoln. Seen here wowing the audience in an Irving Berlin Revue. On stage, theyre in fine form, but in the radio, theyre in sockets, making them easy to replace. Although the promise of the transistor was that it would be a more-or-less permanent device, manufacturers werent quite sure how permanent they would be in use, so many of the earliest transistor radios were made with the transistors in sockets for easy replacement.
From 1957, The DuMont 1210 portable transistor radio. In my collecting, I seek out things that are of interest to me in three different categories things that interest me for their technology, for their historical significance, and for their beauty. Two out of three... The hideous 1957 DuMont transistor radio](https://i.ytimg.com/vi/7IoBKMsviUo/mqdefault.jpg)


