#Pavek Museum

[joehaupt]

Vintage Advertising For The Zenith Frepower Wincharger For Unwired Homes In A Ferguson Company Ad In The Paducah Kentucky Sun-Democrat Newspaper, December 22, 1935 by Joe Haupt Via Flickr: When I was at the Pavek Museum in St. Louis Park, Minnesota a few years ago, I remember seeing a great set-up of the Zenith model 6-V-27 farm radio with the Frepower Wincharger.

[hclib]

Radio Days & Television Highlights With Steve Raymer, Director Emeritus Pavek Museum of Broadcasting

Thursday, March 29, 2018, 10:00-11:00 a.m.

Minneapolis Central Library, Doty Board Room, 2nd floor

Learn about the technology that brought news and entertainment right into the living rooms of yester-year, with classic shows like Buck Rogers in the 25th Century, or Cab Calloway’s orchestra on NBC direct from the Cotton Club, played to the audience through the airwaves. The stars of the radio shows transitioned to TV broadcasts, beaming Jack Benny, Dinah Shore, and others into the glowing screens of giant television consoles. The Pavek Museum houses the equipment that brought the world into the homes of our parents and grandparents. Steve Raymer will take us on a tour of these mechanical marvels and the wonder of broadcasting way-back when. See old equipment and broadcasting devices, recall classic shows and learn about popular local broadcasters of the past.

Photos of Minneapolis radio programs and television from the Hennepin County Library Digital Collections.

[frankles]

Introducing RokBlok

Now you can take your vinyl with you! This is a peculiar little gadget that inverts the whole turntable dynamic and...does all the turning for you. I saw something like this at the Pavek Museum of Broadcasting a few years ago, but it was built into a Scooby Doo bus rather than a borderline Jawa crawler box. Because the lack of a turntable was the reason I haven't been hauling my records to the park or the beach...

[josysadventures]

Yesterday was our second field trip. This time we went to two science museums : first the Bakken Museum, where we followed a presentation by a very funny employee named André, who used puppets - with a wonderful italian accent - to explain the experiments and discoveries of scientists like Luigi Galvani and Allessandro Volta, which led to the invention of the battery. The kids got to recreate those experiments using metal plates, potatoes (instead of having them cut into dead frogs, thank God !), soaked tissues and various other items, and thus learnt more about electricity.

We then went to the Pavek Museum where they listened to trivia about telegraphs, morse code, radio, layden jars and so on. Then they recorded their own radio show in a vintage studio which they got to operate themselves, and finally they took part to a Jeopardy-type game about the trivia they had previously heard. They had a lot of fun and so did I.

The best part was that this was a great conclusion for our short week of school, since we’re not working this Friday. So instead of fulfilling my usual ‘almost teacher’ duties, I am taking some time to catch up on some work this afternoon and tonight I am going to a restaurant with my supervisor and his wife !

And better still on Sunday, my partner family is taking me to a new restaurant that will officially open to the public the Monday after that.

A lot of fun things to look forward to, which is good because my new host family is going to Mexico this week end, and I would have maybe felt a little alone if I didn’t have all those things planned.