Lily Pons with her RCA Console Radio-Phono, 1940

This RCA ad appeared in Life Magazine 75 years ago, January 22, 1940. It shows opera singer and RCA recording artist Lily Pons listening to her RCA Victrola Model U-42 radio-phonograph. Thishandsome console contained 8 tubes, and tuned both standard broadcast and short wave. The record changer was automatic, and the receiver feathured pushbutton tuning and a 6U5 “tuning eye.”