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Weekend Pass | entertainment National Capital Radio & Television Museum
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Local vintage-radio buffs in the 1980s longed to share their gizmos with others. In 1999, they opened this museum in a restored farmhouse in Bowie, Md.
minutes of sound, requiring lots of discswapping) and the 1939 Reado, a receiver that could print awful-looking newspapers from image data sent over AM radio. You can watch a mechanical TV — a device popular in the late ’20s and early ’30s — eek out images so small a magnifying glass is part of the apparatus, or change a radio’s station with the Philco Mystery Control, a 1939 wireless remote that uses a rotary-phone-style dial.
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Ideas that outpaced their era’s technology wow the most. The lack of digital signals and microchips didn’t stop early- to mid-20th-century inventors from pursuing their dreams, however clunkily. There’s a 1941 radio that recorded shows onto blank phonograph records (which could hold only a few
A restored 1936 radio, with warranty, costs $195. HOLLY J. MORRIS (EXPRESS)
DAVE RAMOS (FOR EXPRESS)
Life was worth living before HDTV and iPods
You wouldn’t want to watch “Game of Thrones” on this mechanical television.
Innovation is driven by curiosity. “What if I hold this dead wildebeest over fire before eating it?” for example. Or, “How can I change the radio station without getting off my butt?” The National Capital Radio & Television Museum captures the excitement of the inquisitivenessto-invention cycle, from the telegraph to the TV set. Part of the fun is futzing with restored antiques, perhaps tuning into a live baseball game on a receiver that, to the modern eye, is as user-friendly as an airplane cockpit.
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SLEEPY LABEEF AND THE DARYL DAVIS BAND FEATURING THE GARNET HEARTS
SA 26 “JOE CLAIR & FRIENDS” COMEDY SHOW FEATURING TONY WOODS, EDDIE BRYANT AND NIKKI CARR FROM LAST COMIC STANDING
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ZYDECO DANCE PARTY W/CURLEY TAYLOR AND ZYDECO TROUBLE
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SOUL CRACKERS W/TOMMY LEPSON & SPECIAL GUEST MARY ANN REDMOND
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DICK DALE 13 VICTOR WOOTEN BAND 14 THE ZOMBIES 15 KENNY LOGGINS 16 MARTY STUART & His Fabulous Superlatives W/Angaleena Presley (of The Pistol Annies) 17
TRIGGER HIPPY
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National Capital Radio & Television Museum, 2608 Mitchellville Road, Bowie, Md.; Fri., 10 a.m.-5 p.m. and Sat. & Sun., 1 p.m.-5 p.m., free; 301390-1020, ncrtv.org.