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 Return to top of page · Post #: 16 · Written at 8:40:53 AM on 28 January 2018.
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 Location: Melbourne, VIC
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Monochrome and GTC please share how you have come across this West's Radio & Music Store association with Westonola branded radio.

Trove Newspapers, of course:

https://trove.nla.gov.au/newspaper/article/235353520/25391632

The Westonola in question is a early one, probably early 1934. The escutcheon is a EFCO type "BEAM", named so as it has a picture of a lighthouse on it.

Cant as yet find an address for West's, but it would most likely be on Forest Rd. I suspect West's was a music retailer servicing and selling their own branded radios on the side.

I can do a bit more digging.


 
 Return to top of page · Post #: 17 · Written at 8:56:30 AM on 28 January 2018.
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 Location: Sydney, NSW
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Hi GTC, I did get there eventually after posting this morning, I did get to Trove and found an add 23 July 1936 P7 similar but not identical Console to the one I am looking at.
Thanks once again, GTC, I did not initially go to Trove as, nothing came up in Google, so I have learn't that just because google does not find it , go directly to Trove.
I lovey the site now that I know how to search on it, would you belive I started by going through each page of "The Propeller" the local paper I had uncovered and looked through the first 2 months of 1932 , as I thought the search engine could not pick up the text of the old Adds. I am now a lot wiser and thanks to this site has some great leads.
I could not believe how many different company's had and sold Radio's in Hurstville alone, competition seemed fierce.

Part of the fun of restoring old radio is the tiresome but detective like research, which clearly I need to get better at.
I will share what else I discover.
Thank to all.


 
 Return to top of page · Post #: 18 · Written at 9:42:21 AM on 28 January 2018.
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Sorry I should have directed the last comment to you Monochrome TV


 
 Return to top of page · Post #: 19 · Written at 6:43:47 PM on 28 January 2018.
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 GTC
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Seems West's only ever gave their address as Forest Rd, Hurstville. Apparently their street number was a state secret and must never be published.

Anyway, they habitually advertised their location as "opposite Selfridge's" (dept store). Best I can find Selfridge's were at 252 (now a NAB branch), so I guess West's must have been somewhere around 209 (using today's maps).


 
 Return to top of page · Post #: 20 · Written at 4:38:22 PM on 29 January 2018.
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 Location: Melbourne, VIC
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According to the Sydney telephone directories Wests' Music Store was at 170 Burwood Rd, Burwood with branches at Dickson St, Homebush & Forest Rd, Hurstville. No street numbers are given for the Homebush & Hurstville stores. The phone directory listing is a group entry which may explain the absence of the street numbers for the branch stores.


 
 Return to top of page · Post #: 21 · Written at 11:18:05 AM on 31 January 2018.
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 Location: Hill Top, NSW
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When I lived at Croydon in the 1980's, there was a West's music store in Burwood Plaza, and I bought some music there.

It's gone now though.

My database has 2 receipts from there that had survived. Details:

14/6/1987 WEST'S RECORD BAR BURWOOD ph 74-6118
22/3/1989 WEST'S SOUND BAR BURWOOD

Whether this is the same Wests that you're interested in, is another matter.


 
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