Who mentioned radio is useless? In a single Bay Space metropolis — the charmingly locked-in-time Alameda — the more-than-a-century-old medium is given a celebratory bash that will get larger and extra elaborate with every passing yr.
The 2025 Radio Day by the Bay Pageant, happening July 19 on the headquarters of the California Historic Radio Society, fetes radio broadcasting’s golden age and its hopefully brilliant future. What will likely be “on the air?” Nicely, there’s a reside jazz orchestra to maintain the crowds swinging and reside radio performs to ship suspense and thrills. An public sale affords the possibility to personal classic gems like a Nineteen Fifties “Lone Ranger” AM radio and a wood-paneled Zenith shortwave from 1939.
The radio society is giving excursions of its museum with all its Inspector Gadget-type widgets and gizmos — make sure to try the “Ham Station,” which doesn’t characteristic smoked meat. And there’s a surplus-electronics sale, a boombox-building contest and meals vans, all set to the melodious commentary of native radio hosts Hoyt Smith and Sylvia Chacon.
Particulars: Occasion takes place 8 a.m.-3 p.m. July 19 at 2152 Central Ave., Alameda; http://chrsradio.org/radioday
