I confess to being somewhat blase regarding my life in the 50s but I am being honest. I won't discuss my wife, now deceased, divorced many decades ago. The new car ended in the junkyard. My degree was a powerful tool to prove my credibility and allow me decent employment, but said employment wasn't what I was made for.
The 1970s and later proved much more to my satisfaction. Each decade seems better than the last and unfortunately for me it will all end too soon.
When I think about what life has given me so far, I am amazed that so much has happened and that I remember so much of it. Perhaps incorrectly, but it doesn't matter. The bottom line is that it's not over yet.
However we are straying very far off topic. Philco was a venerable company that was highly successful for many years. They merged with Ford back in the day, as GM merged with Frigidaire. Some of my earliest radio work was with Philco units. I believe in my youth we had a Philco tombstone radio sans the cabinet, with yellowing celluloid dial scale and a pair of 71A tubes for output amplifier producing a very nice mellow tone. The chassis of those old radios were very high, contrasting with the more modern low profile.