Samantha's Lake Country Collectables: Upcycled Projects: Dyola Brand General Store Counter Display Turned into a Radio circa 1930s! Local Find Bonus Edition!

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Monday, April 29, 2019

Upcycled Projects: Dyola Brand General Store Counter Display Turned into a Radio circa 1930s! Local Find Bonus Edition!

Front of Repurposed Dyola Radio

This week's Upcycle/Repurpose Project was actually a DIY project roughly around the 1930s. It was a local submission from a vendor at Antiques on 11 mall near Orillia, Ontario. Priced at $150
It was originally a Dy-O-La home and fabric dye general store display cabinet (commercial product display/early advertising memorabilia). Sometime around the 1930s, someone repurposed it into a "modern" (at the time) radio using a home mail order kit which were popular at the time. The 1930s (also the decade of the Great Depression) were known for their genius repurposing and DIY projects due to the financial crisis occurring at the time.

Here are some ebay listings of similar Dy-O-La cabinets (albeit not repurposed like this great find!):

Here are some other pictures of it: