Old Time Radios and Classic Cars Earn Their Keep in California's Astor Museum
Filed in archive Museums by Philip Powell on February 13, 2007

Making an auto museum pay for itself isn't easy when expenses include restoration, maintenance, and the purchase of rare vehicles. The Astor Classics Event Museum has found a solution by renting its banquet/exhibit hall to clubs and corporations for special functions. Just imagine how a quiet dinner or boring corporate meeting could be livened up when surrounded by the great cars of yesterday! The Astor Classics Collection in Anaheim, CA, was created by Art Astor, a veteran of over 50 years in Southern California broadcasting and President and CEO of two major radio stations
. With such a background the Museum obviously serves a dual purpose, displaying a vast selection of classic cars along with historic radios and broadcast equipment. Having been an announcer during an earlier career attempt I can certainly relate to those vintage microphones through which, as a young man, I might have delivered the news, sports, stock market updates, music intros and... new car test drives, quite possibly the first by radio in North America.Permalink: Old Time Radios and Classic Cars Earn Their Keep in California's Astor Museum
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