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Old 08-27-2013, 02:58 PM
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Cool photos, Al. Your mom's family must have been doing OK if they could afford a DuMont

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Old 08-28-2013, 04:16 AM
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That radio in the color photo is desireable, too. A friend of mine has one of those. Great pictures.
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Old 08-28-2013, 11:26 AM
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Cool photos, Al. Your mom's family must have been doing OK if they could afford a DuMont

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Ha! My Mom's family is Italian, and was living in Northern NJ (right outside NYC) back in the good, old days. Her father, and his brothers were - how do I put this? . . . AH!!! Worked in the "Waste Management" business.

Well, he really worked for Ballentine and Pabst breweries in Newark, NJ - long gone now. He did Union "stuff." We never KNEW for sure, but in the 50's\60's when you had nice stuff like that and did not even have a high school education - I mean . . . come on! "It fell off the back of a truck!"
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Old 08-28-2013, 11:28 AM
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That radio in the color photo is desireable, too. A friend of mine has one of those. Great pictures.
That radio is an Emerson 520, right? I am on the hunt for one. Seen a few on eBay unrestored going for $200 +

My father thinks his brother still has their original one.
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Old 09-26-2013, 09:22 PM
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I'm kind of curious about what kind of set is in this picture of my mom from May 1961. The other pic is of me, probably in 1985, in front of what I believe was a 1981 Sony Trinitron console. This set was passed on to my grandmother and used until the CRT went weak and was junked in 1999 by yours truly to make it easier to get to the dumpster.
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Old 09-26-2013, 09:26 PM
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That's definitely a General Electric set in the 1961 pic; I'd say circa 1954. Let me see if I can find an exact match....
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I'm kind of curious about what kind of set is in this picture of my mom from May 1961. The other pic is of me, probably in 1985, in front of what I believe was a 1981 Sony Trinitron console. This set was passed on to my grandmother and used until the CRT went weak and was junked in 1999 by yours truly to make it easier to get to the dumpster.
That was one big SONY for back in the day. Way too cool.
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That was one big SONY for back in the day. Way too cool.
Yes indeedy...and that KV2601 was a lot heavier than the RCA, GE and Mags I delivered, drooled over and set up in those days.
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Old 12-02-2013, 08:55 PM
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Yes indeedy...and that KV2601 was a lot heavier than the RCA, GE and Mags I delivered, drooled over and set up in those days.
Solid wood cabinet maybe? My 1989 Panasonic console has one, and it's rather difficult to even push along laminate flooring. If I recall correctly, that Sony had glass set into the top as well.
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Old 12-05-2013, 11:57 AM
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Found a few more old family photos with sets in them. The one picture is from a slide and backwards (RCA CTC-12 color). In my Grandfather's house (father's side of the family). My mother remembers watching the Moon Landing in '69 at my father's parent's house on this set, while my grandfather was trying to record it on his 8MM camera. He wanted to get a movie of it b/c my father was in Vietnam at the time.

Second is a DuMont RA-103 in my Grandfather's office. "Grandma!!!! get out of the way so we can see the TV!!!" Ha!
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Yes indeedy...and that KV2601 was a lot heavier than the RCA, GE and Mags I delivered, drooled over and set up in those days.
And they had one of the SHITTIEST tubes in them n HISTORY. Maybe even a 23EGP22 was better (at lifespan, that is.) The 91-99 Zenith tubes WERE worse, though.


One would be HARD pressed to find one today---with a good tube.
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Old 12-14-2013, 10:02 PM
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I found this picture of a soda fountain circa 1950 over on the Shorpy site. Above the counter is a brand spankin' new Philco 50T-1403...painted white??

Looks to have A/C over the door too. Not that common then. A/C was EXPENSIVE in 1950.
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That was one big SONY for back in the day. Way too cool.
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And they had one of the SHITTIEST tubes in them n HISTORY. Maybe even a 23EGP22 was better (at lifespan, that is.) The 91-99 Zenith tubes WERE worse, though.


One would be HARD pressed to find one today---with a good tube.
I wish I knew exactly what model it was, but it wasn't necessarily a KV-2601, the KV-2648R I just found out is identical in appearance. I wonder if the CRT in the latter is any better...
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Nice picture of a porthole in this blog - this family seemed to like Zenith, look:

https://cariocadorio.wordpress.com/tag/tv/
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