hanging our stockings

In a house without a fireplace, it's difficult to find a place to hang your Christmas stockings. Suzy and I ended up hanging them on the knobs of the Firestone Air Chief radio and phonograph (this was the entertainment center before television). It probably came from the Firestone Home and Auto Supply Store in Lubbock. According to www.airchiefradios.com,

our console radio was probably a pre-war model. An ad for a similar model touts six tubes, 10-inch speaker and matching walnut cabinet. Wonder what happened to all those colorful children's records we listened to?

From the family album:

Christmas 1952

New Deal, Texas