Uploaded May 2026 | Updated September 2026, 1 day ago
It looked a little more like 1940 than 1960. But this is how Sears Roebuck got into the pocket transistor radio game.
This was their smallest transistor radio to date, though it's hardly small. And this is their first shirt-pocket radio, though it would hardly fit in a shirt pocket. It's tapered and rounded and all together a unique piece of work.
Ah, Sears. Their radios have a kind of clunky charm to them.
Looking twenty years older than it is, the Silvertone 1201... in the only color it came in, which they call "gray" and which the catalog calls "smoke gray" and which I would call putty, or... meh.
It looked a little more like 1940 than 1960. But this is how Sears Roebuck got into the pocket transistor radio game.
This was their smallest transistor radio to date, though it's hardly small. And this is their first shirt-pocket radio, though it would hardly fit in a shirt pocket. It's tapered and rounded and all together a unique piece of work.
Ah, Sears. Their radios have a kind of clunky charm to them.
Looking twenty years older than it is, the Silvertone 1201... in the only color it came in, which they call "gray" and which the catalog calls "smoke gray" and which I would call putty, or... meh.
