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Uploaded by on Jun 26, 2008

Bob Denver, aka Gilligan, aka Maynard G. Krebbs, shows off the first transistor radio. It's 1961 and kids are ready to rock.

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  • Maynard has a Zenith Royal 500--one of the best transistor radios made.

  • Cool!

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  • Good ol' Maynard.Music was in his soul,wether or not he had the radio on.Man,Maynard was the hippest cat in the sticks,ya dig?

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  • OWS supporter.

  • Errr....try 1959, not 1961. This clip is from the pilot.

  • Maynard had a Gilligan moment near the end! LOL

  • @mrbobbyh Sad the teacher did that to be a jerk, but that's a fun story to have! I wanted to bring a pocket TV to school so I could watch the billionth rerun of the Flintstones like on The Jetsons!

  • Maynard is so high he didn't even notice

  • My father had a Zenith portable radio like that, and it was maroon, which i bet this one is also. My mother had a similar-sized portable of a different design, and it was turquoise. Very '50s colors in plastic.

  • Earbuds go way back. I think those crystal radio kits had them.

  • @RJRanke I dug what ya saying Daddy O. Maybe we can bring it all back . with a futuristic twist! Slip me some skin for the win! ;)

  • Amazing that this was 50 years ago!

  • "you're a one man slum"

    BUUUUURN!

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