Seventy-five years ago this month, the November 1946 issue of Radio Retailing
carried this ad for the Electromatic model 609 Bar Radio. As you can see, the company sold the same style of radio-phonograph as either a chairside or tabletop model. It looks like they did a run without the phonograph, but there was a void under the lid where the phonograph was supposed to go. Who needs to listen to records if they have booze, so the logical thing to do with that spot was to turn it into a bar. The company reported that the model was selling faster than rare scotch.

You would want to be careful not to spill into the radio, although I suppose if the contents were high enough proof, they would do little other than give the chassis a good cleaning.

I’ve found references to the Model 608A and 607A, but haven’t found any evidence that any of the Model 609 Radio-Bars ever made it into production.