Secret Code: The RCA-Victor Radio [Archival Audio]
Title
Secret Code: The RCA-Victor Radio [Archival Audio]
Description
Business on Radio Row was booming starting in the 1920s. This advertisement for the RCA-Victor Model 108 radio is an example of the types of sound one might have heard blasting from stores in the 1940s. In the 1960s, Radio Row was demolished ot make way for the WTC.
Sonic memorial comments
from ben & joe. archival ads from courtesy Hartman Center's Ad*Access, Digital Scriptorium of the Rare Book, Manuscript, and Special Collections Library, Duke University. Archival photos from Antique Radio Classified.
Sonic memorial contact
Ben Shapiro & Joe Richman found these old ads. Sue says the archive where they got them might want money. Aks Sue before trying to get web permission 1/15/03.
Sonic memorial creation date
1940-11-30
Sonic memorial duration
00:00:22
Sonic memorial is browsable
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Sonic memorial keyword
Radio Row
Media
Sonic memorial name
radio row load
Sonic memorial permission
unknown
Sonic memorial source ref name
SMS807.2.mp3
Sonic memorial source type
archival
Sonic memorial status
unknown
Source
digitally recorded
Media Type
audio
Collection
Citation
“Secret Code: The RCA-Victor Radio [Archival Audio],” September 11 Digital Archive, accessed October 1, 2026, https://911.dev.chnm.gmu.edu/items/95831/.