She's the love of my life and my best friend as well.  This is us at a convention for the International Council of Air Shows:


We met in 1989 at an air show and married at that same air show one year later.  
An office manager for an event management firm in Victor, Nancy is multi-talented.  Fortunately for us, she's an ace at woodworking.  I, on the other hand, can fix or create many things electrical and mechanical but am of absolutely no use when it comes to woodworking!

This incredible lady is also an accomplished musician, singer and composer.  Our living room decor includes a baby grand piano and a full-sized concert harp, just two of many instruments she has mastered.  She often sings both the American and Canadian national anthems acappella to open the air shows at which we announce!

Since the mid 1960s, I've been collecting novelty transistor radios.  Currently, there are nearly 200 of them in my possession.   All are in working condition and I  have the boxes and original packaging for better than half of these units.  As with all collections, their value is mostly in the eyes of the beholder...if you want them and like them, you wind up collecting them!  

They come in all shapes and sizes.  The ones I'm most taken with are those that most cleverly disguise the fact that it is, in fact, a radio.  If they look more like the object they are made to represent and less like a transistor radio I'm gonna want to own that unit.  

Here are pictures of just a few examples:
   

Many of these are only made for a year or so.  Some are offered as premiums by companies to promote their products but were never sold in stores.  Today, many are bought and sold on Ebay (what isn't???) and a general search of "Novelty Radio" on that web site will turn up two or three pages of them on any given day.

To see my entire collection, click here.  Follow the directions there on how to view photos of the entire collection.

You might want to check back from time to time to see what new radios have been added.

And if you have one of these novelty radios that you don't see in the collection and are interested in selling it, let me know!

UPDATE!! Two new units just added.  The piano is mostly made of wood and is difficult to find with both the tiny bench and original box.   The Commodore adding machine is hard to find in any condition.  This one fortunately works well, still has the paper roll attahced and came with the original instruction booklet.  Both are only about 6 1/2 inches at their longest dimension.