Editing Radio Row (section)

===Boston residences===
{{Further|North End, Boston}}
In 1923, ''[[The Boston Globe]]'' reported that a section of [[Boston]]'s [[North End, Boston|North End]] had been dubbed "Radio Row" because of its many radio antennas. "The [[hurdy-gurdy]] has a rival," wrote the ''Globe''. "No skyline anywhere else in the city or the suburbs is filled with so many antennae<!--Sic. This is a direct quotation, so please do not make any "corrections"---> as the blocks stretching along some sections of Hanover and Salem sts. Many residents have three or four aerials—one has six—with wires leading down to receiving sets of all descriptions, in the homes of the foreign-born residents. It has all come about in a few months....All stairways lead to the roof, where [some residents] are arranging to rig up a loudspeaker, connected with instruments below. A survey of housetops...shows a whole population getting ready."<ref>Cullinan, Howell (1923), ''The Boston Globe,'' May 6, 1923, p. A5.</ref>