{"id":6589,"date":"2009-09-18T09:54:11","date_gmt":"2009-09-18T16:54:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.alleewillis.com\/blog\/?p=6589"},"modified":"2009-09-18T10:02:48","modified_gmt":"2009-09-18T17:02:48","slug":"allee-willis-kitsch-o-the-day-outdoor-transistor-mania","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/alleewillis.com\/blog\/allee-willis-kitsch-o-the-day-outdoor-transistor-mania\/","title":{"rendered":"Allee Willis’ Kitsch O’ The Day – Outdoor Transistor Radio-Mania"},"content":{"rendered":"\"owl,-ladybug-transistor-radio__3548\"\n
I love actual owls and ladybugs but none so much as these transistorized versions. I have entire zoos and forests of these things but these are two of my favorites – a ladybug who, when you twist her left eyeball, opens her wing to expose a still working speaker and an owl who, when you twist her right pink rhinestone eyeball, chirps the sound of AM radio as clear as the day she was hatched. I bought the owl in the early ’80s and she still works perfectly despite the fact that I’ve never changed her batteries.<\/div>\n
The ladybug, all plastic and made in Hong Kong by Sonnet, British Design, is 5 inches long and an inch and a half tall and counting. She comes with a convenient wrist strap and two rubber antennae.<\/div>\n
The owl, made in Japan, is 8 inches tall and fat with a plastic body and gold medal wings, eyes, legs and speaker holes in the crotch.<\/div>\n

I love actual owls and ladybugs but none so much as these transistorized versions. I have entire zoos and forests of these things but these are two of my favorites – a ladybug who, when you twist her left eyeball, opens her wing to expose a still working speaker and an owl who, when you twist her right pink rhinestone eyeball, chirps the sound of AM radio as clear as the day she was hatched. I bought the owl in the early ’80s and she still works perfectly despite the fact that I’ve never changed her batteries.  <\/p>\n

The ladybug’s all plastic and made in Hong Kong by Sonnet, British Design. Five inches long by an inch and a half tall, she comes with a convenient wrist strap and two rubber antennae which serve no apparent purpose.<\/p>\n

The owl, made in Japan, is 8 inches tall and fat with a plastic body and gold medal wings, eyes, legs and speaker holes in the crotch.<\/p>\n

Close ups of the species:<\/p>\n\"owl-transistor-radio_3549\"\n\"owl-transistor-radio__3550\"\n\"owl-transistor-radio_3551\"\n\"owl-transistor-radio_3552\"\n\"ladybug-transistor-radio__3554\"\n\"ladybug-transistor-radio__3561\"\n\"ladybug-transistor-radio__3558\"\n\"ladybug-transistor-radio__3562\"\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

I love actual owls and ladybugs but none so much as these transistorized versions. I have entire zoos and forests of these things but these are two of my favorites – a ladybug who, when you twist her left eyeball, opens her wing to expose a still working speaker and an owl who, when you … read more »<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[317,253,273,269,87,193,167,13,263],"tags":[61,3232,3245,633,631,189],"class_list":["post-6589","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-accessories","category-animals","category-birds","category-gadgets","category-kitsch","category-kitsch-o-the-day","category-memorabilia","category-music","category-nature","tag-allee-willis","tag-kitsch","tag-kitsch-o-the-day","tag-ladybug-transistor-radio","tag-owl-transistor-radio","tag-transistor-radio"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/alleewillis.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6589","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/alleewillis.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/alleewillis.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alleewillis.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alleewillis.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=6589"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/alleewillis.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6589\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/alleewillis.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6589"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alleewillis.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6589"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alleewillis.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6589"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}