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The Northland Antique Radio Club
The Northland Antique Radio Club invites you to attend Radio Daze 2016, the Upper Midwest's ultimate vintage radio collecting event, and we are proud that both the Pavek Museum of Broadcasting and the Antique Wireless Association (AWA) continue as supporting sponsors for the 30th consecutive year. Every year is a new opportunity to attend a fun auction, find swap meet deals, enter and view interesting contest items, learn from entertaining guest speakers, and rekindle long-time friendships. Brochures will be mailed in early April to all known radio collectors in the five state area, plus to other vintage radio collectors from across the country who regularly attend this event. The schedule used the past few years has worked well and will be continued, beginning with The Pavek Museum's 'Garage Sale'. A visit to the Pavek Museum of Broadcasting is always a highlight of 'Radio Daze' and they schedule their annual garage sale of surplus radio relics for this weekend. The Pavek museum is located at 3517 Raleigh Avenue in St. Louis Park, Minnesota and will be open at 10:00 am sharp on both Friday and Saturday. Make sure you are displaying your Radio Daze name tag for free admission. All other Radio Daze 2016 activities will be held Friday and Saturday, May 20-21, 2016, at the Comfort Inn Plymouth, located at the northwest corner of I-494 and Hwy. 55 in Plymouth, Minnesota. This will be our 19th year at this great location! Room rates are still only $79.00 (plus tax) per night for either Double or King rooms, Thursday through Saturday nights. The Comfort Inn's reservation phone number is (763) 559-1222. The meet kicks off with a large antique radio auction in the hotel main ballroom at 7:00 p.m. Friday May 20! We make this an entertaining auction and there will be a good variety of radios available. If you want to sell your radio(s) at the auction, check them in between 3:00 and 6:00 pm Friday. Auction preview is 6:00 to 7:00 pm, and the auction starts at 7:00 pm. Auction details are in the brochure. Saturday begins with the hotel parking lot swap meet in the morning. (Please note that the permit from the City of Plymouth does not allow any parking lot sales prior to Saturday morning.) The hospitality room will be open at 7:00 am with hot coffee and rolls. A light lunch will be available 11:00 am to 1:00 pm. The registration room opens at 8:00 am. Item check in for the old radio contest will run from 11:00 am to noon, with viewing from 1:00 pm to 2:00 pm. The radio contest includes equipment displayed from the earliest days of radio to the 1960's. The contest has some new categories as described in the Radio Daze 2016 brochure. A trip to the contest room always yields a surprise or two! For Saturday lunch, NARC will offer a light lunch in the hospitality room, or a great meal can be had at Lucky's 13 Pub within the hotel. Several other restaurants are nearby, including Perkins, Jake's Sports Bar, and some fast food establishments. The Saturday program begins at 2:00 pm and includes opening comments, contest awards, door prizes, and a featured speaker. This year's speaker will be CBS/WCCO television broadcast journalist Bill Hudson. A native of Elk River, Minnesota and graduate of St. Cloud State University, Bill says Channel 4 is the station he grew up with and aspired to work for. Bill came to WCCO-TV in 1989 as a general assignment reporter and has covered the Sioux City airline disaster, Hurricane Andrew, California Wildfires, the Waco siege, Minnesota National Guard's mission to Bosnia and their anti-drug and nation building work in Central America, troops returning from Saudi Arabia following Desert Storm, and Minnesota's contributions to the wars in Afghanistan and Iraq. During the program, Bill will offer insight into the evolution of reporting over the last 40 years and his experiences in the business. You won't want to miss this presentation! Click here ( 2001 / 2002 / 2004 / 2005 / 2007 / 2012) to see photos from previous years! Registration is required for admittance to all indoor events, the Hospitality Room, the Pavek Museum, and to sell items in the parking lot. Registration is encouraged, but not required, for anyone just attending the auction or buying at the swap meet. You can pre-register (and save $3.00) by returning a registration form before May 13th. After you arrive, please pick up your name badge and other materials in the Registration Room. Copyright 2024. All rights reserved. The Northland Antique Radio Club |
