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Grandma's spare, sent off to college in 1976

An Emerson flip-number alarm clock radio, a style common in the 1970s. Not the one in the story.
An Emerson flip-number alarm clock radio, a style common in the 1970s. Not the one in the story. Photo: Forest51690, CC BY-SA 3.0. The real one is in the original post.

Heading off to college in 1976, its owner got this clock radio from a grandmother. It was one of her spares and wasn't new even then. It runs off the wall and keeps good time. The radio has gone faint, but the buzzer works, which is enough for a retiree who doesn't need jolting awake very often. It sits on its owner's side of the bed, and the owner's wife would rather it didn't.

Retold from a post on r/BuyItForLife. Read the original

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