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Offline Ct Yankee

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"Sunday in New York" - with a pair of vintage Zeniths?
« on: September 30, 2022, 1950 UTC »
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sILsBjaiKwk

I went looking for a youtube video for the song "Sunday in New York"  and I found this video with movie scenes depicted.  At 1:20 in a rowboat, I think there is a 1963 Zenith Royal 755LK but not positive.  At 2:20, in a store front window there is a Zenith Trans Oceanic 8G005Y or G500, the way I tell them apart from a picture is the gold emblem on the inside of the front cover when lifted on the G500 (The 8G005Y also has a concealed logbook).  It is tough to see whether the radio has the gold emblem in the clip.  Any thoughts?

On a side note, it is odd they show a present day portable in the rowboat but in a fashion conscious midtown Manhattan store front have what was then a decade old plus radio.



« Last Edit: September 30, 2022, 2040 UTC by Ct Yankee »
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Re: "Sunday in New York" - with a pair of vintage Zeniths?
« Reply #1 on: October 02, 2022, 0241 UTC »
Good eye CT Yank. I've generally seen that first Zenith (at 1:20) with a brown leather case, not black. But it does look like that model, I agree, as the LK version of the "lunchbox" has the black switch in the bottom left hand corner, as opposed to the LF and LG models.

Zenith sure had some cool looking radios in the 1950s and 60s. A 1962 Zenith Trans-Oceanic Royal 1000-D from a yard sale was my first shortwave radio.

Thanks for sharing!

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