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I love that my polling station gives out free cookies and snacks. Downside, I live in republican hell
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About That Radio Thing...
A Sort-of MasterPost in Zenith Mid-Century Industrial Design
Every once in awhile I get bitter about what I had thought was gonna be my "happy fun retirement project", because I ended up having to give them all up. I took a lot of really good photos of them in the process of selling them on eBay for literal pennies compared to the dollars I'd spent on them. So at least there's the pictures, and the knowledge.
I'm talkin' about my radios. Radio, real AM Radio used to be so incredible, before it became hate-radio. It was how I heard EVERYTHING first!
The year is 1971. I'm a musical-obsessive 12 year old and hearing Lennon's "Power To The People" come over the airwaves for literally the first time, along with everyone else! It felt incredible! It was how we all connected to the big energy of our time. In a way, it was our internet.
After my sweetie died I wanted to collect radios that I liked, radios with a certain kind of industrial-streamlined deco vibe, and boy I collected. In the span of a couple of years I managed to find/buy a large collection of Zenith radios in particular, along with a few choice others.
The main object of my obsession was the industrial design of most Zenith radios from 1939-1953, the work of one Robert Davol Budlong. His designs speak to me. Seeing the evolution of style from between those two dates is impressive.
So I was all set to enjoy being an old radio guy. Until I wasn't.
There are a lot of reasons the radio collecting thing just decidedly became NOT what I was going to do. First was finding out a lot of the "old radio enthusiasts" are mostly old nazi shits.
I had been excited about living just down the street from a "museum/club" building, but after I actually tried to interact a few times, that pretty much came crashing to a halt.
There was one younger guy who seemed OK, but as for any other interactions, not really. And it coincided with my financial downward spiral in such a way that I had to start selling off what had at least occupied my grieving mind (and eyes).
Eye candy becomes expendable when shit gets real. I ended up having to sell most of the radios. I kept one console, and a couple of small transistors. So I kinda had to grieve not only my sweetie, but the "eye candy" that had occupied me since she died.
Oh, and somehow in the shuffle of this shitshow of life this past 10 years, I once managed to leave the lock unlocked on my (supposedly secure and guarded) storage unit, and thirty of my prize radios and record players were literally wheeled out and stolen. About $2k worth.
And now, I'm too broke to collect a goddamn thing.
But at least I still have the pictures.
That's what started this. Every once in awhile I want to see them. It makes me happy to see all that amazing Budlong design again. Of the ones that worked, I can remember what each one sounded like. I also collected ads for certain models, catalog pages that they were part of, etc. There are posts about that, as well.
So I thought I'd just put all the links to the main radio posts I've made over the last few years, making this a Radio Masterpost of sorts.
Lots of mid-century industrial design eye candy. Yer welcome. Alternately, go to my page and just search "Zenith" or "radio", "radio ads", "catalog", "radio advertising" etc. I don't do the tag thing much, but the search works pretty good on my page, actually.
So yeah, the love affair with radios will stay mine, but it's bittersweet.
AND NOTE: THEY ARE ALL GONE, VERY SOLD. ANY EBAY LINKS ARE LONG, LONG DEAD.
Just search my blogpage to see some more. I'll try to gather all the various links together here.
Here's one last one for today. Another of Zenith's unicorns, the T545: Combination radio and 45-rpm-only record changer, in all its original bakelite splendour. This is another rare bird that, sadly, I only owned for a few months before having to give it up again. I hope the new owner has done the electronic/mechanical restore to it and that lit lives on. To have found one with absolutely no real damage to the bakelite, and brights that are BRIGHT, it's really rare! Feast your eyes.
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GARDENA, CA (February 12, 2024) A 5-year-old child was killed in a pedestrian hit-and-run crash at Marine Avenue and Budlong Avenue in Gardena on Sunday morning.
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Jordan Martins — Fogery Nagles (Astral Spirits)
Photo by Stephen Garrett
Fogery Nagles arrives, from seemingly out of nowhere, but at just the right time. It is a solo pedal steel guitar album by the Chicago-based musician Jordan Martins. There’s a good chance that you could know Martins and not know even know that he plays music. He’s a visual artist whose works are frequently shown in galleries around Chicago and more distantly in Brazil. He’s also an arts educator and administrator who has guided the transformation of Comfort Station, a former Chicago Park District storage facility, into a robust multidisciplinary art venue, and has also participated in the programming committee the Chicago Jazz Festival. But every now and then, you might catch him playing steel with the singer / songwriter Angela James.
With James, Martins’ playing has been supportive and idiomatically apropos; he’s a diligent side-person, not a spotlight hog. But during the pandemic he, like so many others, found himself cut off from his usual social outlets, and he set about seeing what he could do with his instrument on his own. It’s reasonable to suppose that the forms of his other creative work exerted a shaping influence on what came next. Martins is a collage artist, attentive to the effects of layering and juxtaposition. And in his previous musical work, he’s applied himself to making sounds that enhance the effects of a song. Thus, what emerged from his episode of locked-down experimentation was not a set of hot licks, but a handful of carefully tailored compositions made from scrupulously layered parts that flower and subside around strong core melodies.
“Incantation” opens the record with a solitary, yearning theme. Over time, that theme varies, shrinking and growing as he reworks it while resonant sound waves and a subtle synthetic pulse rise up and flow around the central action. The pace is deliberate, which affords the listener plenty of opportunity to notice and settle into the peripheral action, and then prepares them to have their ears pointed in the right direction as the music opens up into a growing vista of fractal cells. The subsequent tracks each set up a distinct audio environment, and then explore it at length, building up to something that is more complex, but carefully balanced. The prevailing vibe trends towards a melancholic low on “Budlong Dirge,” which starts off side two with a descent into dubby unease, and then angles gradually back up to a closing note of redemptive comfort with a cover of the gospel chestnut, “A Closer Walk With Thee.”
This record may end up being an on-ramp to a new musical road, as Martins has begun to play around town with other pedal steel players in 2023. If so, it’s an auspicious beginning. By dint of his careful placement of sound, he has carved out a personal space in the currently growing field of musicians who are putting the pedal steel guitar to work outside its historic idiomatic confines.
Bill Meyer
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She had kept it alive by soothing it to silence
And when she woke — if she woke — what would she waken to? Merely more years of self-torment, of puttering at useless tasks to while the long days away; of traveling nowhere forever all the eternal evenings in that old squealing rocker whose office he perceived now for the first time.
His mother had made a cradle of that chair, and her grief was the beloved child of her heart that she rocked and rocked to keep it from crying aloud lest it break the sleep of the other children. She had kept it alive by soothing it to silence; it had never died, but only lived the better in the secrecy of (314) sleep.
ex The Old Home Town, A novel by Rupert Hughes (1926) : 313 : link (UC copy)
same, via hathitrust : link
Hughes’s longest story about the mythical Midwestern town of Carthage (he himself grew up in, and left, Keokuk, Missouri). See James O. Kemm, “The Literary Legacy of Rupert Hughes,” Books at Iowa 42:1 (1985) : 10-25
doi: https://doi.org/10.17077/0006-7474.1106
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a hardware aside —
Mr. Budlong’s sister had married a man named Lail, who had begun as a hardware man and had done well, for a hardware man. But he longed to do better, and he invested all he had saved and all he could borrow in buying at the top of the market all the land he could secure along the bluffs and bottoms...
pp 23-34 : link
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All 50 Ward Early Voting sites will be open from October 24 through November 8 (Election Day). These sites are open Weekdays from 9:00am to 6:00pm; Saturdays from 9:00am to 5:00pm; Sundays from 10:00am to 4:00pm; and on Election Day (Nov. 8) from 6:00am to 7:00pm.
1st Ward - Goldblatts Building, 1615 W. Chicago Ave.
2nd Ward - Near North Branch Library, 310 W. Division St.
3rd Ward - Dawson Technical Institute, 3901 S. State St.
4th Ward - Dr. Martin Luther King Center, 4314 S. Cottage Gr.
5th Ward - Jackson Park, 6401 S. Stony Island Ave.
6th Ward - Whitney Young Library, 415 E. 79 St. Chicago
7th Ward - Trumbull Park, 2400 E. 105th St.
8th Ward - Olive Harvey College, 10001 S. Woodlawn Ave.
9th Ward - Palmer Park, 201 E. 111th St.
10th Ward - East Side Vodak Library, 3710 E. 106th St.
11th Ward – McGuane Park, 2901 S. Poplar Ave.
12th Ward – McKinley Park Branch Library, 1915 W. 35th St.
13th Ward - Clearing Library, 6423 W. 63rd Pl.
14th Ward - Archer Heights Branch Library, 5055 S. Archer Ave.
15th Ward - Gage Park, 2411 W. 55th St.
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17th Ward - Thurgood Marshall Library, 7506 S. Racine Ave.
18th Ward - Wrightwood Ashburn Branch Library, 8530 S. Kedzie Ave.
19th Ward - Mt Greenwood Park, 3721 W. 111th St.
20th Ward - Bessie Coleman Library, 731 E. 63rd St.
21st Ward - West Pullman Library, 830 W. 119th St.
22nd Ward - Toman Library, 2708 S. Pulaski Rd.
23rd Ward - Ward Hall-St. Faustina Kowalska Parish, 5157 S. McVicker Ave.
24th Ward - St Agatha Catholic Parish, 3151 W. Douglas Bv.
25th Ward - Rudy Lozano Branch Library, 1805 S. Loomis St.
26th Ward - Humboldt Park Library, 1605 N. Troy St.
27th Ward - Union Park Field House, 1501 W. Randolph St.
28th Ward - West Side Learning Center, 4624 W. Madison St.
29th Ward - Amundsen Park, 6200 W. Bloomingdale Ave.
30th Ward - Kilbourn Park, 3501 N. Kilbourn Ave.
31st Ward - Portage Cragin Library, 5108 W. Belmont Ave.
32nd Ward - Bucktown-Wicker Park Library, 1701 N. Milwaukee Ave.
33rd Ward - American Indian Center, 3401 W. Ainslie St.
34th Ward - UIC Student Center, 750 S. Halsted St.
35th Ward - Northeastern Il University El Centro, 3390 N. Avondale Ave.
36th Ward - West Belmont Library, 3104 N. Narragansett Ave.
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38th Ward - Hiawatha Park, 8029 W. Forest Preserve Dr.
39th Ward - North Park Village Admin Bldg, 5801 N. Pulaski Rd.
40th Ward - Budlong Woods Library, 5630 N. Lincoln Ave.
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These university sites for Early Voting will be open November 2 through November 4 - 10:00am to 5:00pm.
Chicago State University - 9501 S. King Dr.
Northeastern University - 5500 N. St. Louis Ave.
University of Chicago - Reynolds Club - 1131 E. 57th St.
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CLAN CARRUTHERS: Lachlan MacDonald.
CLAN CARRUTHERS: Lachlan MacDonald.
Scottish-Australian Heritage Council
NOTICE OF PASSING
As members, we have just been informed by Carol Budlong of the Scottish – Australian Heritage Council, received from the State Commissioner of New South Wales/Australian Capital Territory for Clan Donald of the sad passing of a prominent member of that clan out there.
Clan MacDonald
Lachlan Macdonald, or Lachie to his friends passed away…
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Hey Alabamians
Don’t like our two choices for governor?
Cause I’m tired of republican Memaw Ivey and anti choice democrat Yolanda Flowers ain’t it.
So write in Jared Budlong this November.
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Just a girl and her Zenith...
Zenith S-9010 Record Player, that is...one of the choicest pieces of Mid-Century Industrial Design ever translated into mass production.
Another of the creations of Robert Davol Budlong, before his days at Zenith ended.
Released in 1955, it was the first standalone Cobramatic with the fully adjustable speed, from 16 to 78. Truly the first revolutionary multi-speed record changer ever built.
The CobraMatic set the bar for true mulit-speed record changers.
I had one I was going to restore, and ended up selling it along with the rest of the radios. Truly and awesome piece of equipment, awesome piece of Design.
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https://www.linkedin.com/company/budlong-&-associates-inc.
Budlong
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Los Angeles, California 807 followers
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About us
For over 65 years, Budlong has been steadfast on delivering excellent engineering throughout Southern California. Our unique brand of solution building, innovative engineering, and high-quality team efforts is instilled in each new engineer who joins our multidisciplinary team. We strive to share our knowledge and pass down the best methods for every type of challenge. Many members of the Budlong family got their start within our company and have grown into brilliant leaders who now mentor a new generation of Budlong talent.
In this way, Budlong is never unprepared.
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Founded
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Commander Eugene McDonald (1886–1958), the founder of Zenith Radio, was a stickler for quality and insisted that any Zenith product represented cutting edge technology and design integrity.
He was also an accomplished yachtsman. During his many ocean voyages, he constantly was frustrated with the inability of any portable commercial radio set to perform reliably at sea. In about 1939, he ordered the Zenith R&D department to come up with a rock-solid, portable AM receiver sensitive enough to pull in signals from great distances. He insisted that the radio be a multi-band unit including shortwave, marine and aircraft bands.
The Zenith crew came up with a gem: the Trans-Oceanic, a gorgeous piece of engineering housed in a robust and dramatic cabinet designed by the brilliant Zenith industrial designer Robert Davol Budlong...
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Gym Buddies
Brandon Budlong and Tony Botelho
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14 Skeletons found under a Pickle Farm in Chicago
https://chicagoandcookcountycemeteries.com/2017/08/08/buried-under-a-huge-pickle-farm/?fbclid=IwAR0XwsEbbkVzdFYQucTuALQoa84SJNhraf8GwyGMaBRGFQaSCjgnCqvPLGY
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New collection alert: Joseph Budlong records
Joseph A. Budlong was a wholesale florist in Chicago in the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries. He was born March 17, 1841, in Rhode Island. He moved to Cook County in 1862, joining his brother, Lyman Budlong. Lyman Budlong already had begun a farming and pickling business, which Joseph assisted him with until returning to the East Coast around 1865. In Brooklyn, New York, he worked as a clerk for another brother and married Teresa Smith on February 1, 1866. Soon after, the couple returned to Cook County, where Joseph resumed his partnership with Lyman for the next 17 years. After the amicable dissolution of their partnership, Joseph began cultivating land and built greenhouses initially to grow vegetables, but soon turned to exclusively growing flowers, principally roses and carnations, for the cut flower trade. By 1899, Budlong also had a wholesale business located on Randolph Street. The 1908 Lakeside Directory of the City of Chicago indicates that the business had been passed on to Theresa Budlong. The land where Joseph and Lyman's farm and storefront stood is now the Chicago neighborhood Budlong Woods.
The collection consist of forty business ledgers documenting Budlong's wholesale florist business, including transactions and correspondence. The ledgers date from May 16, 1898 through December 9, 1910.
The Joseph Budlong records can be viewed in the Special Collections and University Archives Reading Room at UIC’s Richard J. Daley Library. Here is information about visiting Special Collections and University Archives.
#uic library#uicspecialcollections#new collection alert#archival collections#Joseph Budlong#florists#budlong woods
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