The Georgia Radio Museum & Hall of Fame in Saint Marys, Georgia

Eric & I enter the Georgia
Radio Museum & Hall
of Fame.








Wow!  The museum is in one room.  This is the smallest museum I've ever visited.  Founded in 2007, the Georgia Radio Museum and Hall of Fame opened at the Saint Marys Welcome Center in 2014, making it the newest museum I've ever visited.

Georgia Radio Stations came on

 air in 1922 & programming

was heard across the state.

1940s era radios

The bottom shelf displays
home made radios.






I am in Georgia, learning about radio history and my dad's radio story popped into my head:

My dad, Stanley, and his family lived on a farm in Schodack, New York in 1920.  Oldest brother, Paul, built a crystal radio and listened to it, with an earphone, out in the barn. Younger sibs, Andy, Stell, Roe and Stanley wanted to listen to the radio too.  They had to take turns.  Five year old Stanley had the solution.  He asked his mother, Rosalia, to buy a radio for the family to listen to in the parlor.

Mother and father made a big purchase and Stanley was very excited.  He was sure that they bought the radio he asked for!  His great big smile dropped down to his knees when Stanley saw a Fordson Tractor pull up next to the barn.  He and his sibs would continue to wait their turn to listen to the radio in the barn and dream of sitting comfortably in the parlor and listening to music fill the room.

A 1940s era living room with

a floor model radio.

Before television, American

families spent time together

listening to the radio.

Radio programs included music, comedies, dramas and the news.










News was sent via teletype

to news outlets, including

radio stations.

Headsets & microphones used

 in Georgia Radio Stations.

Hit singles and print ads

for radios.

The 16 inch vinyl record

was the mainstay of

radio stations from the

1930s through the1950s.

Disk Jockeys introduced songs,
played on vinyl records & read
the station's sponsors' ads.

This Presto Playback Turntable
was used from the 1930s
to  the 1950s.

Tabletop radios made from

plastic became popular

in the 1950s.

Disc spinning gave way to

reel to reel tapes in the

1950s.  

"Quixie" the Tiger was the 

WQXI Atlanta Station's

mascot in the 1960s.

This is a great start-up museum.  The displays are organized well and labeled.  It's obvious that the best of the various collections were chosen to showcase Georgia's place in radio history.