[78-L] Canadian radio (Was: 78-L mail should be normal now ^)

[Michael Biel]

From: David Lennick <dlennick at sympatico.ca>

> Rewind back a few decades..driving from Toronto to Thunder Bay,
> and for long stretches there's NOTHING on the radio coz there's
> no radio. Occasionally you'd see a sign indicating an LPRT
> (remember those?) which repeated the CBC AM network and had
> a range of a few miles.

What about the Northern Service?  And Short Wave??

> No in-car cassette players coz the cassette hadn't been invented
> yet. We did a lot of singing in those days.  dl

The cassette itself dates back to 1963 or 64, but before car players
were developed there was the 8-track, and before that there was the
4-track, and before that there was Chrysler's Highway Hi-Fi.  That takes
us back to 1956.

Mike Biel  mbiel at mbiel.com