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The Great Radio Bonfire

LizzieMaine

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Movietone News covers a mass burning of traded-in 1920s battery radios as an industry publicity stunt to promote the spiffy new 1929 models.


A few years later the industry trade magazines would be encouraging dealers to incinerate these now-obsolete sets to clear the way for the hot new All-Wave models. And so it went.
 

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