This ad appeared 75 years ago today in the March 10, 1947, issue of Life Magazine. It’s for RCA Victor’s model 65U radio-phonograph. It’s a typical “All American Five” broadcast radio with automatic record changer. It has a large elliptical speaker, and it’s a nice sounding radio.

I actually own one of these that I got back into working order a few years ago. The automatic record changer (said to be capable of 12 ten-inch records or 10 twelve-inch records) stopped working a long time ago, but the phonograph still plays manually. The original cartridge was no good, but I substituted a more modern ceramic cartridge, held in place with a piece of foam rubber and rubber bands. The lid can be closed completely while records are playing, a relatively uncommon feature of tabletop sets of that age.