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In 1930, the Times described Radio Row as located on Greenwich Street " where Cortlandt Street intersects it and the Ninth Avenue Elevated forms a canopy over the roadway ....

The largest concentration is in the block bounded by Dey Street on the north and Cortlandt on the south, but Radio Row does not stop there ; it overflows around the corner, around several corners, embracing in all some five crowded blocks.

" It estimated 40 or 50 stores in the vicinity, " all going full blast at the same time.

There may be regulations prohibiting this vociferous practice, but if the radio dealers have anything to say it about it, it will never have the slightest effect along Radio Row ....

The clamor is heard even as one walks through the subway tunnel to the street exit ....

The first impression, and in fact the only one, is auditory, a reverberating bedlam, a confusion of sounds which only an army of loudspeakers could produce.

" It noted, in addition to merchants selling radio sets, " others display mostly accessories ... one shopkeeper last week featured a crystal set small enough to fit into a pocket, and another gave prominent position to a bucket of condensers about an inch in side.