RadioActive wrote:

Actually, I still have a clock radio...

5 Classic Pieces Of Tech That Will Remind Boomers Of Their Childhood

 

 
Me too, if it ain’t broke….

Our first record player was a Seabreeze with detachable speakers. Very hi-tech for its time. My first transistor radio arrived for Christmas 1965. WBT and WBZ were my first DX catches. We never had a party line but when I moved to Hamilton to attend McMaster in 1972, my landlady did. I never owned a clock radio. And my family's first console tv was a 1961 Phillips 21" set. When the set was on the channel indicator box lit up. I thought we should have bought an Admiral like my grandparents had. Too expensive according to my dad.

I have several clock radios. But I only use them as a clock. Every clock radio I've ever seen has a garbage radio. When we're traveling I always take along a clock radio and a real radio. I lot of hotels have removed the clocks from their rooms. They say most guests prefer to use the clock in their phone.

So I teke along the clock radio to use as a clock and a real radio to listen to.

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Many modern radios have a built in alarm that turns on a station at a time of your choosing. They're not exactly clock radios, more like radios with a clock. They also come with a timer than can turn your radio off after a certain number of hours, so you can fall asleep and not worry about it being on all night. 

g121 wrote:

 : )) ..

OMG!! I had that as a kid and you brought back so many memories. Does it still work? Receiving a few local stations was like DX'ing for me. Thanks for the trip down memory lane
 

I still have a working clock radio plus landline telephone all in one.
The phone stopped working years back but the radio and clock and alarm are still fine.
I also have a small alarm clock radio I got with a subscription to MacLean's magazine.