A few more fine scans from the 1920’s courtesy of WDDRvkii.

Doctor Mu provides his wisdom from famous Chinese philophers and served as a prominent marketing image in the Grebe Radio advertisements of the 1920’s.

A friend of greberadio.com contributed this picture of the new Grebe Radio factory from Radio News, September, 1922. Notice the Grebe Radio delivery truck off to the right.

On August 12, 2004 an honorary plaque was placed on the factory building by the Richmond Hill Historical Society. The building is now used as part of the Jamaica Hospital Medical Center.

Present for the dedication were Nancy Cataldi, President of the Richmond Hill Historical Society, Alfred H. Grebe’s son, Alfred H. Grebe, Jr. (second from left), and grandson, George D. Meier (third from left), and Bruce J. Flanz Executive Vice President and Chief Operating Officer of Jamaica Hospital Medical Center standing in front of the new plaque mounted on the old Grebe Radio factory building.

The text of the commemorative plaque reads:

GREBE RADIO FACTORY

AND

BROADCASTING STATION

ERECTED IN 1922 BY ALFRED H. GREBE (1895-1935)

RADIO DESIGNER, MANUFACTURER AND BROADCASTING PIONEER

GREBE RADIOS MANUFACTURED HERE WERE DISTRIBUTED WORLDWIDE. WAHG AND WBOQ BROADCASTING STATIONS OPERATED HERE IN 1924. ON NOVEMBER 1, 1926, WAHG BECAME ONE OF THE FIRST COMMERCIAL STATIONS UNDER THE NAME WABC WITH ALFRED GREBE AS FOUNDER OF THE ATLANTIC BROADCASTING COMPANY. IN 1928 IT BECAME THE FLAGSHIP STATION OF THE COLUMBIA BROADCASTING SYSTEM – CBS.

“HE LOOKED TO THE FUTURE WHEN FASCINATED BY WHAT WAS CALLED RADIO AND DEVOTED HIS LIFE TO IT”

CBS MEMORIAL TRIBUTE – 1935

THE RICHMOND HILL HISTORICAL SOCIETY

One of our readers has scanned these classic Grebe Radio ads and generously shared them for us to enjoy. These are for the Grebe CR-5 Receiver.

Listening To Radio On Boat Originally uploaded by euthman.

Flickr is a free photo posting community, part of what is known as the user-contributed Web 2.0 style sites. Stumbled upon a few Grebe CR-12 Radio photos, where the poster has been kind enough to link back to this site as well.

Grebe CR-12 Radio, 1920s Originally uploaded by euthman.

You can now see the Grebe Radio manufacturing production pipeline on DVD, painstakingly digitized from old time movie film to the DVD video format. Don Patterson has produced this excellent DVD from the original black and white 16mm films shot at the A. H. Grebe & Company factory in Richmond Hill, New York. The resulting documentary can be seen in natural, realistic motion… not the herky-jerky look of “old time movies”, caused by converting 16 fps film to 24 fps film or video standards. There is no audio or narration on the film, just silent movie subject subtitles.

You can order your copy of the DVD from Don Patterson through his e-mail address: dpatterson002@comcast.net

Here are a few sample still images from the film.

Images kindly contributed by John Mattesini, Technical Supervisor, NBC10 WCAU-TV.

Note: An improved copy of the Radio News cover is now online.  Click this thumbnail to see the high res version of it.  Thanks to Wddrvkii.

The audio player from Odeo.com hosts many podcasts, including old time radio, such as this one from Mister Ron’s Basement:

And here is another sample from The Radio Nostalgia Network: