Today with the TV and all the other modern technology we have, the radio is a thing of the past. But in my days of growing up, if you had a radio, it was a luxury. I don’t know how we could afford one, but we had a radio, and electricity wasn’t even around then in the rural areas. Our radio ran on two 6‑cylinder batteries that would last about three months. When the batteries got low, father would only allow us to listen to the news.