For many years I've been wanting to find one of these rad 1940s/50s RCA Victor dealer chairs, but they always seem to be either WAY out of my price range or a million miles away. Never in my wildest dreams would I expect to find not just one, but TWO of them less than two miles from our home in the local antique mall (shout out to Atomic Antiques). Even more astonishing, because there was only one arm rest, they were sold for mere pennies on the dollar. I owe a gazillion thanks to my friend Dave Lass for texting me a heads up and then meeting me the next morning before they opened to make sure nobody else found them before us. Thank you, thank you, Dave!!
The next step is to find a way to use the one existing armrest as a template to make the others. I'm thinking wood. Does anybody have any suggestions or experience making RCA Victor chair armrests?
Well, the next step is actually to host Back to the Country on WORT FM tomorrow morning (11/12) from 9am-noon cst (streaming via wortfm.org). I'll be spinning some amazing recent acquisition 45s all morning, several of which were produced by RCA Victor around the same time as these chairs!
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