nostalga

The radio that is currently playing WUMB in my office is one that I have had since 1984 or earlier. WUMB went on the air in 1982. Radio and station are of an age. Back in early 1984, this radio played KBRQ, a country music station near Denver, Colorado, up on the wall in the barn where I kept my horse. I took it when I moved back to NJ in 1984 but I didn't take this radio to college with me and it stayed in my parent's barn, largely silent, until I moved to NH in 1991. In 1992, I put it in the then-brand-new barn, where it stayed and played WOKQ until 2001 when I switched over to listening to WUMB. Last summer, I moved again, and this humble, dusty and now downright old, AM/FM radio is in my office, because it is the only just plain old radio that I own. I have never owned a stereo system, boom boxes have come and gone and lived and died, and yet this old cheap radio plays on despite it's antenna being long gone and having been covered in dust and hay and left in open windows during rainstorms not to mention bitter cold and severe heat.