Teen to historic prison: Al Capone's radio is wrong vintage

PHILADELPHIA — A sharp-eyed boy who collects antique radios is taking umbrage with the vintage radio on display inside gangster Al Capone’s cell at a historic Philadelphia prison.

Eastern State Penitentiary closed in 1971 and now operates as a museum and national historic landmark. Thirteen-year-old Joey Warchal took a tour and noticed the radio in Capone’s cell was wrong.

The Prohibition-era mobster spent time at Eastern State in 1929 and 1930. The radio was made in 1942.

The seventh-grader offered to find the prison a historically accurate radio. The prison gladly accepted his help.

The Philadelphia Daily News reported the teen has located a 1929 model and will deliver it to Eastern State next week.

Joey began collecting at age 8. His mom said while most kids want toys, “he wants antiques.”