Old photos of TV's

[Marlin Mackley]

Wow Bob, what a great photo! I have every set in the shot, would be fun to replicate the scene. Now lets see if I can find one of those Fridges....

Marlin

[veg-o-matic]

I have some commercials for the '50 Philco TVs featuring that second one from the left. It has some internal antenna that's rotated with a knob on the front.

Marlin: go visit classicappliances.com. They are to vintage appliances what we are to vintage electronics. Make sure you check out unimatic's collection (he's a member here, too.) Quite an impressive selection of washing machines!
Bob

[Marlin Mackley]

Bob I checked it out. WOW!! A pink washer! I think I am in love...

[Marlin Mackley]

Awwright...now they a'done it! They have VIDEOS of clothes washers running!!! Somebody in this world is more nuts than TV collectors!
"Hey Bob, lets do a Superbowl.. I mean a washing machine video party!!
Marlin

[veg-o-matic]

Hello. My name is Bob and I'm beyond help.

Used to be that I figured I was the only oddball in the world who appreciated vintage pink, front-loading washers and color TV sets with round screens.

Now, thanks to these two sites, I find I'm not the only one. And I'm grateful.

I've got my roundie, which I enjoy tremendously. I doubt that I'll ever get the pink Westinghouse, but I know for a fact that there's a new front-loading washer in my future.

Come to think of it, isn't that the same thing as a roundie color TV? I could watch them both for hours, mesmerized. 'Course the Zenith has a larger choice of channels. On the other hand, there's no cable channel that'll let you see your underwear getting friendly with the towels...

[Celt]

I can see it now...for a slight fee on your monthly cable bill, you can view THE LAUNDRY CHANNEL which features agitation, spinning and enough suds for the entire family!

[Carmine]

I believe this is the fridge you need for your photo-op. It's in my grandparent's basement. The script on the bottom says "advanced design".

BTW, I just signed a purchase agreement on an original owner house from 1955. I'll post some photos in the off-topic section soon as I close. You'll love them...

I do intend to remodel the house, but sleep sound in the knowledge that unlike other re-habbers, the old stuff won't end up in the dumpster.

Originally posted by veg-o-matic
Come to think of it, isn't that the same thing as a roundie color TV? I could watch them both for hours, mesmerized. 'Course the Zenith has a larger choice of channels. On the other hand, there's no cable channel that'll let you see your underwear getting friendly with the towels...

Can you imagine coming home drunk and deciding to do some laundry and then mistakenly trying to stuff clothes into the TV?

Anthony

[Eric H]

Fantastic!!!

I noticed the center set is showing a program, you can just make it out.

Originally posted by veg-o-matic
This was the "picture of the day" at classicappliances.com.
Bob

[domfjbrown]

Originally posted by CELT
I can see it now...for a slight fee on your monthly cable bill, you can view THE LAUNDRY CHANNEL which features agitation, spinning and enough suds for the entire family!

It'd be better than most of the rubbish on British TV... Plus I can only get 4 channels (not even Channel 5) as we can't have satellite dishes installed and there's no cable in our street. On top of that there's no "Freeview" digital TV either, so seeing clothes going round would be more fulfilling than the nth reality TV programme and boring house remodelling programme.

I heard a rumour that somewhere there's a fishtank channel where you can, err, watch fish all day. Anyone know if this is true?

[wa2ise]

It'd be better than most of the rubbish on British TV... Plus I can only get 4 channels (not even Channel 5) as we can't have satellite dishes installed and there's no cable in our street. On top of that there's no "Freeview" digital TV

And I thought that TV in Europe was supposed to be better than American TV. Do you still have to pay a TV tax there? Something about having to have a license just to receive TV, much less transmit it.

[Unimatic1140]

Hey guys, I’m glad you enjoyed yesterday’s Picture of the Day. That is a new picture that I just scanned over the weekend from a 1951 Calendar and added to the POD library. I have 90 Picture-of-the–Days saved on the server at my web site (www.classicappliances.com) and I wrote a program to change the POD everyday at 1:00am central time. I was thinking it would be fun to add a second Picture of the Day button to Classic Appliances dedicated to Vintage Television Sets but I don’t quite have enough pictures and ads to scan as of yet, but I’m getting there.

By the way, if anyone has vintage ”television set” commercials that they can copy and send to me, I can digitize them and add them to our web sites video library so everyone here can download and enjoy them.

Yes, we have do have lots of videos of antique automatic washers running, at first glance that might seem truly “bananas”, but most of these early automatic washers are as rare or even rarer than the CT100. Each brand of washer does its washing process in a very different manner from the next brand, unlike modern washing machines that now all wash in same boring way, so it’s important show how the machine actually worked. In the early days there was a lot of creative thinking going on by the appliance manufacturers, but today it’s generally all the same, just like TV’s now for the most part all come in a black plastic box. Finally in the past few years, appliances as well as TVs seem to be going through a technological advancement after 20 or so years of very little progress.

[bgadow]

I've ventured over to the classicappliances site a few times after hearing about it on "that home site". Too bad I don't need more things to collect! Have to do with some mixmasters & vacuum cleaners.

One old tv commercial sticks in my head. It was featured on a PBS show outlining the decline of the US electronics industry & Japan's rise. Lots of talk about RCA, with the "good days" illustrated by a neat ad for RCA color tv-a cartoon character singing "her hair is red, her eyes are blue...". I can still hear that little guy singing in my head, though I've only heard him once, over 10 years ago!

[classicradios]

Not really a TV photo but a monitor, Still interesting though.
I grabbed these shots off a DVD 1961 Broadcast of Nat King Cole.
At the end of the last song the camera pans around 360 degrees and shows the audience and B/W monitors.
Jim

[Eric H]

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