[BC] 110 V DC

[Larry Bloomfield]

There were many parts of the Los Angeles area that were 50 Hz around 
WWII and down town LA, near the Union Depot, was DC as I recall about 
that time too.

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nakayle at gmail.com wrote:
> There were some areas in big cities that had 110-VDC- a legacy of
> Edison's old system- that was 110-VDC. However the main reason such
> radios were popular was simply because it was cheaper to make radios
> without power transformers. The better radios did have transformers-
> but they had to use AC.
>
> - Nat
> <snip>