The Emerson was not built well enough to withstand being ban

The Emerson was not built well enough to withstand being banged around and dropped. After falling from my canvas bag to the concrete for the nth time it stopped working. Yaaarrrggghhhh! $50 bucks down the tube. Not for the photo-Geek. I took it apart and discovered that the printed circuit board had cracked. When it cracked, the copper traces in that portion of the board were severed. I taught myself PC board repair and soon had the Emerson playing again.

When dad came home from the Philippines in 1961 he brought a National transistor radio he had acquired in Japan.

Again, this is not it, but this is what it looked like, even down to the faux leather case. National was the Japanese brand name of Panasonic. This was a good radio that held up for many years.