I bet many of us had crystal sets.
Mine was hooked up to the steel springs of my bed and gave me a large ground plane.
I could sometimes get Chicago and New York where the big bands were playing live in the Ballrooms. This would come in on skip if the cloud conditions were right. I grew up at Anacortes, on an island 100 miles north of Seattle in the San Juan Islands just shy of the Canadian border. Where was your home town.
Bebop