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Old 03-12-2004, 01:15 PM
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Vintage photo of viewer and her old TV

Found this in one of those magazines you find in your hotel room, the sort promoting the local city.
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Old 03-13-2004, 05:05 AM
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IIRC, that TV set looks like a GE model (when GE meant General Electric, not.....well, you know) from about 1962 or earlier. No UHF, so it must be from the very early '60s or even late '50s, before all-channel tuning was mandatory in this country. I remember seeing a few of those sets when I was growing up in the late '60s-early '70s, when people held on to their old TVs until they fell apart. Those older sets were built to last; most folks really did hold on to them until the wheels fell off, so to speak.

BTW: What hotel did the magazine containing that picture come from? Just curious.


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Old 03-13-2004, 01:56 PM
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That's my first TV! The one I have been looking for for years:

http://www.vintagetvsets.com/wanted.htm
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Old 03-23-2004, 10:23 PM
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Snagged this one off ebay. Someone wasn't holding the camera very well. Cut off most of the TV!

http://cgi.aol.ebay.com/ws/eBayISAPI...category=14279
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Old 03-23-2004, 10:25 PM
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Old 03-24-2004, 01:42 AM
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Another eBay pic

Anyone know the TV? I know what type of clock is on top of it! (See the first post in this thread)

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Old 03-24-2004, 07:44 AM
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Looks almost identical to the DeForest-Sanabria I gave away last year.
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Old 03-24-2004, 05:01 PM
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Angry TV in classroom, never used

Here's a photo of a class in my old Catholic grammar school. From around 1964. Someone installed B&W TV sets in each classroom so we could watch something the teacher selected from our local educational TV channel (in the NYC area it was channel 13). Notice that the TV set is sitting in the back of the classroom. The teachers never used the TVs. They spent most of the time drilling the kids on arithemetic and grammar so we'd score well on the annual achevement tests. If it didn't show on the test, it wasn't taught.

That blackboard pointer saw more use hitting kids than pointing out stuff on the blackboard.
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Old 03-24-2004, 06:01 PM
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TV in school

I recall our elementry school having 2 Magnavox 25" color sets. They were bought around 74 or 75. Didn't get used very much. I bet those sets are still there today. I do recall watching the first space shuttle accident on those sets.
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Old 03-29-2004, 07:35 AM
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Smile 1976? RCA console

This is one of the TVs I grew up with.

I think this is a 75 or 76 console. My grandparents had an RCA that I think was a little older because it had the on/off toggle switch and the picture controls hidden in a drawer that swings out.

Also in the pic is an old cable box and 13 year old me reading the instructions to my NEW Commodore MPS-801 printer. This must've been in 1984 when I got my C64 system.
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Old 04-30-2004, 01:57 AM
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eBay photo

Possibly an Emerson?
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Old 04-30-2004, 02:02 AM
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That wallpaper is giving me flashbacks! Why, I can taste the rainbow LOL Can you hear the smell?

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Old 05-03-2004, 11:13 PM
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Nother eBay foto

Unknown set?
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Old 05-06-2004, 07:58 PM
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My "first" TV

That first shot in this thread really caught my attention. I thought I had a shot of this set with that clock in the picture. (That's me on the left -- a half a century ago!) I still have the clock, but the set is l-o-n-g gone.

Anyone know where I might find one of these ugly Motorolas to become the sentimental centerpiece of my collection?

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Old 05-06-2004, 09:03 PM
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Dave S, that TV set's CRT looks to have an aspect ratio of 5:3 instead of the usual 4:3 for an NTSC set. The 5:3 ratio is close to what is used in modern digital HDTV. Maybe your picture's aspect ratio is vertically squashed, but the people and the TV dials look correct, not squashed.

Maybe an HDTV set manufacturer should make a set with "retro" styling. Styling like that used in our antique sets....
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