As usual, on Friday night, the infamous bonfire was held. Throughout the day, several beat-up console cabinets were set up near a fire pit, and during the evening, they started the blasphemy. Here are several photos I took of it. Warning: extremely graphic radio destruction content ahead!
An unknown speaker cabinet which looks like it may have held nice drivers at some point:
A view of the firepit before the festivities began:
Because weather forecasts called for rain, someone got the fire going earlier than usual:
Views of the audience watching the spectacle:
Some kindling and cabinet parts on the fire:
A '20s radio cabinet is placed face-up on the kindling:
Someone slides a stereo console cabinet into the side of the pit:
Not sure if this was a TV cabinet or part of a home organ:
Eventually, more convicts, err, cabinets join the condemned:
Next, a phonograph cabinet of some sort:
Some firewood is added to the top:
No more cranking this one up:
Think this one was an RCA:
And over it goes:
Now a fancy Philco which once had a set of 'acoustic resonators':
And it resonates its way into the flames:
Time for a double-decker:
Think it's a Radiola tabletop on top of a Fairbanks-Morse:
And as often happens, the bottom cabinet topples before the top one burns much:
Now part of a '20s radio cabinet, possibly an Atwater-Kent 70:
Another '20s radio cabinet is added:
Burned a long time before finally collapsing:
And now a '30s radio cabinet (Philco?) has been added beside its remains:
Doesn't burn nearly as long as the '20s cabinet did:
Next, a squat cabinet is placed on the fire:
Then someone decides to stack a taller cabinet on top of it:
Ladies and gentlemen, the Towering Inferno:
Hard to show in pictures just how incandescently these cabinets burned.....
And down goes Frazier, err, the Tower:
Someone awkwardly places a '40s radio/phono cabinet into the flames:
Another Philco cabinet goes into the pit:
No stoop, no squint, now squat:
Forget which make this was, but it was quite solidly built:
And finally, the champ topples:
Someone places a couple of speaker cabinets face-down on the flames:
More cabinet parts are added to the stack:
Yet another Philco cabinet, this time a '39 model:
And its collapse is no Mystery (Control):
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