Old photos of TV's

[Indian Head]

This came from a collection of old stereo slides.

[azguy1878]

just a few i found while browsing vintage photos online..

[David Roper]

Ah, the old GE (middle pic).

Those sets may not have been the best by any standard but they performed nicely--and usually did so for many, many years.

[Tubejunke]

Originally Posted by David Roper

Ah, the old GE (middle pic).

Those sets may not have been the best by any standard but they performed nicely--and usually did so for many, many years.

The best is really not about a certain brand name IMHO. The best set I have ever seen is my 1956 Philco. Rearely repaired in over 50 years of service!

I'm sure my very "blue collar" set by now has run many a circle around $1000 Dumonts' who's bells and whistles started breaking many years ago.

[Captain Video]

Brazilian composer and singer Dorival Caymmi with his ( at the time ) brand new Zenith in the early 1950's.

[Captain Video]

THERE'S is the picture of the guy... oh well...

[John Marinello]

Originally Posted by azguy1878

just a few i found while browsing vintage photos online..

Looks like they just had the carpets cleaned in the pic on the right.
Did you notice that the TV is sitting on some sort of protectors to maybe keep the feet dry?

[gary k.]

Found these while searching the MN Historical Society website. The window displays for 1956 RCA color tv's is from Dayton's downtown. The Motorola dealer was in Golden Valley, MN and the other was from Dayton's Southdale.

[gary k.]

...pics of a few old remote trucks.

[bgadow]

More good stuff! I always like showroom photos.

Recently I was talking to one of the local tv repairmen, now semi-retired. He started in '59 working for an Admiral dealer. He said that in the early 60s, when Bonanza was one of the few color shows, they would leave a color set in the showroom window hooked to a timer, with a loudspeaker hooked up in the parking lot. Folks would drive up that night and watch color TV from their cars!

[wa2ise]

This one
looks like mine, before it became an HDTV.

[newhallone]

Here is a link to some Kmart shopping. There is a link on this page to some vintage shopping music. Anyone know where to find some more old music/musak pre-synth style?

http://pleasantfamilyshopping.blogsp...1_archive.html

[wa2ise]

Check out the antenna on Fred's TV set!

[Captain Video]

My favorite cartoon character, Donald Duck, with one the very 50ishy style TV sets that used to appear in the stories created by Carl Barks.

That's something special to me, because, as crazy as it might appear, those stories were one of the things that inspired me to start collecting vintage televisions. I always thought that those 1950's style TV sets in Donald Duck's house were so cool looking that I wanted to find the real life counterparts of those TVs. And that was when I was 8, 9, 10 years old... damn, I was a weird kid!!!

[zenithfan1]

Originally Posted by Captain Video

My favorite cartoon character, Donald Duck, with one the very 50ishy style TV sets that used to appear in the stories created by Carl Barks.

That's something special to me, because, as crazy as it might appear, those stories were one of the things that inspired me to start collecting vintage televisions. I always thought that those 1950's style TV sets in Donald Duck's house were so cool looking that I wanted to find the real life counterparts of those TVs. And that was when I was 8, 9, 10 years old... damn, I was a weird kid!!!

I guess I was too, I always liked them too as a kid. Remember the Tex Avery cartoon about "Television of Tomorrow" and it showed all kinds of sets modeled after some of the real ones? It also showed very humorous exaggerations as Tex always did in his cartoons. I also loved the one he did about cars too. I would love to have those on DVD, I haven't seen them in years.
edit: I just found it on youtube! http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LYKFSVhT-3o
Regular aspect ratio:http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WUArC...eature=related