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September 30, 2017 Streamline Modern style building in West Hollywood, CA #streamlinemodern #architecture #westhollywood #walterwuderman #weltonbucket #architects #animalhospital #christyborgman #onthisday #lawomanphoto

Photos by Christy Borgman

The radio that started it all for me, the Zenith 8-S-463.  Introduced in the fall of 1939, it became one of Zenith’s best selling consoles of the 1940 model year.  Yes, it’s another iconic design by Robert Davol Budlong.

I grew up listening to one of these, pumping out the hits of 1964 and ‘65.  I was about 5, and remember this was what I first heard things like “I’m Henry The Eighth, I Am”, “I’m Telling You Now” and all the early Motown on...that big boomy window-rattling Zenith bass made a lasting impression.