Videokarma.org

Go Back   Videokarma.org TV - Video - Vintage Television & Radio Forums > Early B&W and Projection TV

We appreciate your help

in keeping this site going.
Reply
 
Thread Tools Display Modes
  #1  
Old 08-14-2017, 03:23 PM
hudsonhornet hudsonhornet is offline
VideoKarma Member
 
Join Date: Mar 2013
Posts: 9
Motorola 1950s assembly line on YouTube

Check out the story of a Motorola console delivered battered and broken by rough freight handling in this Santa Fe railway training film. Circa early 50s, it briefly features a showroom displaying a large Hoffman banner, then some nice footage of the Motorola plant at about the 3:40 mark.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6o57clH-Wzk

Enjoy!
Reply With Quote
  #2  
Old 08-15-2017, 09:50 AM
dieseljeep dieseljeep is offline
VideoKarma Member
 
Join Date: Jul 2010
Posts: 7,562
Quote:
Originally Posted by hudsonhornet View Post
Check out the story of a Motorola console delivered battered and broken by rough freight handling in this Santa Fe railway training film. Circa early 50s, it briefly features a showroom displaying a large Hoffman banner, then some nice footage of the Motorola plant at about the 3:40 mark.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6o57clH-Wzk

Enjoy!
Probably the Augusta Blvd plant. Looks like a 1954 model.
The good old days when there was probably "0" unimployment in Chicago!
Reply With Quote
  #3  
Old 08-15-2017, 02:05 PM
Eric H's Avatar
Eric H Eric H is offline
Administrator
 
Join Date: Jun 2002
Location: So. Calif
Posts: 11,565
2:36, UPS delivers their new TV. https://youtu.be/6o57clH-Wzk?t=155
Reply With Quote
  #4  
Old 08-16-2017, 11:33 AM
dieseljeep dieseljeep is offline
VideoKarma Member
 
Join Date: Jul 2010
Posts: 7,562
Quote:
Originally Posted by dieseljeep View Post
Probably the Augusta Blvd plant. Looks like a 1954 model.
The good old days when there was probably "0" unimployment in Chicago!
Can you imagine how many TV's and electronic items were made in Chicago, through the years!
Also, the non-Chicago makes sold there, Philco, RCA, Emerson etc.
Reply With Quote
  #5  
Old 08-16-2017, 01:57 PM
DavGoodlin's Avatar
DavGoodlin DavGoodlin is offline
Motorola Minion
 
Join Date: Aug 2011
Location: near Strasburg PA
Posts: 3,400
Zenith, Magnavox, Admiral, Motorola and all the others all came by train to the big distributors in eastern PA. Allentown, Harrisburg and Philadelphia were train hubs on the way to the coast, so they had lots of traffic
__________________
"When resistors increase in value, they're worthless"
-Dave G

Last edited by DavGoodlin; 08-16-2017 at 02:03 PM.
Reply With Quote
Audiokarma
  #6  
Old 08-16-2017, 02:01 PM
DavGoodlin's Avatar
DavGoodlin DavGoodlin is offline
Motorola Minion
 
Join Date: Aug 2011
Location: near Strasburg PA
Posts: 3,400
Chicago was #1 for quality consumer electronics more than anywhere else. and we were lucky to have them coming into the big distributors here.

Philco, Sylvania, GE and RCA did not have too come far, so they likely just came on trucks.

Now Pennsylvania is only #1 for huge warehouses built on farmland and container-pulling semi trucks clogging the outdated highways and local roads these days - progress
__________________
"When resistors increase in value, they're worthless"
-Dave G

Last edited by DavGoodlin; 08-16-2017 at 02:05 PM.
Reply With Quote
Reply


Thread Tools
Display Modes

Posting Rules
You may not post new threads
You may not post replies
You may not post attachments
You may not edit your posts

BB code is On
Smilies are On
[IMG] code is On
HTML code is Off

Forum Jump


All times are GMT -5. The time now is 03:57 PM.



Powered by vBulletin® Version 3.8.4
Copyright ©2000 - 2024, Jelsoft Enterprises Ltd.
©Copyright 2012 VideoKarma.org, All rights reserved.