In honor of the Audio Engineering Society‘s 75th Anniversary “75 Years of Audio Innovation”, Louis Manno, founder of the Audio History Library & Museum joins forces with loudspeaker power-house Michael Kramer in celebrating the establishment of New York’s Radio Row a century ago.
As part of that celebration, the Audio History Library & Museum will display a group of historical radios from the Radio Row era and beyond at AES booth 635, Javits Convention Center, October 25-27, 2023.
On Manhattan’s lower West Side, Cortlandt Street was the center of the 300-plus street level shops (and an equal number of lofts above) that would supply parts to radio amateurs assembling their wireless sets, to supplying the innumerable manufacturers in the Tri-State area, and beyond. Radio Row developed as the focal point for the marketing and distribution of consumer electronics in the United States. By the 1950s over 10% of the radios, TVs and Hi-Fi systems made or marketed in the US passed through Radio Row. From its electronics shops to the nearby luncheonettes, barbers and other shops, Radio Row was an economic tour-de-force that supported at least 30,000 workers, an economic impact of a city within a city.
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