Yes, I've collected way too much in such a short period of time. To be be serious, I have a goal to keep my new house practical by not stock piling it. In my mind, you want to save it even though you might not have the room. The bad news is, under MOST circumstances, if I don't save it, nobody will. Thats why I go to estate sales as fortunately, at this stage in my life, I can do estate sales on Saturdays. Im still single so I can spend time and do things like that. Its one of the few things that I do outside of work on the weekends. I enjoy my work very much and that takes alot out of me as it is. Im very fortunate to be working considing so many people have lost their job recently. So it makes me feel good to save this stuff and if some of you want to bash someone like me and call it hoarding, then so be it. Its nothing new.

Only ONE one garage-full, David?

Enlighten me. Can you explain to me how to find "vintage" items without looking in these places? There is nothing wrong with looking for items, this stuff aint for sale at walmart you know. This and the rest of your post have no real value and is only making people angry. Not to mention the good thread it is crapping on. You added this part and a few other things after the first time I saw this. I thought we were supposed to get along, not stab at each other with accusations of hoarding and the other things you said. I say, if you have the room for it without impeding your normal life, there is no problem. I think Doug has a great collection and I'm happy he got this tv, sure I wanted it so bad that I was pouting when I missed out on it but hey, it's probably got a better home where it is now anyway. Simply put, we collect tvs. Some have more than others but that don't mean we're all hoarders.

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Well,if David and Dougs collections constitute hoarding all I can say is
THOSE ARE SOME AWFUL SWEET HOARDS!

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From the pictures I saw, it is a beautiful home. Congratulations Doug, you done good. I also say that living at home is ok as long as you're saving money like Doug did to buy a house. It's wrong when it's done to be a moocher like some do.

Holy Cow!

Re-read and think about my post! I never mentioned or implied anyone with my rant. YOU ALL ASSUMED I was referencing someone in particular.

Damn people, get a life.

Your comments bleed PARANOIA.

If you were not implying anyone, why bother in the first place. Also, why mention people sitting here giving their "expert" advice 24/7 and don't get me started on Zenith collectors. That sounds like you were talking about people here to me. Please take your rants elsewhere if this is the kind of stuff you have to say. Your comments bleed A-hole. Can we please get back to the OT now, this is stupid.

Sometimes us "Hoarders" not only make excellant deals for others to acquire something from someones' collection but give out excellant advice as well! We are all here for each other and to help solve problems. I didn't take anything as wrongly implied, but my skin is pretty thick too!!
Maybe things could have been worded a little different....

Doug, I do love that set! I'm glad it was saved.

One thing I've learned about reading these boards over time is that success or failure at finding great sets seems to have very little to do with any kind of "obsessive" behavior, and a great deal to do with, as the real estate agents say, location, location, location. I go to estate sales here in Chicago, too, and see all kinds of sets (very few of them have really caught my eye; I don't have a serious collecting bug, apparently.) Chicagoland is just really fertile territory and I can say from experience it would be possible to have the aforementioned "life" and still build a serious collection. Now one of these days, I might just stumble on the roundie for me...but in the meantime I'm going to go listen to some records (estate sale records--there's a great OT thread...)

I see that this is a New Vista set. Incidentally that name was coined from the Nuvistor tube on the VHF tuner (6DS4). I have a tabletop hybrid version of this set.

I also see some cataract in that CRT, although it don't look too bad. Nice find!

You hit the nail on the head, I couldn't have said it better myself. Whats interesting about many of the Chicago area suburbs are the fact that they were built up heavily in the 1950's-60's and many of the seniors living here are still in those houses they bought brand new 50 years ago. There seems to be a more conservative mindset here that "you keep what you buy and you take care of it" You don't experience as high of a turn over rate in a good number of the near suburbs, so your chances for finding a clean original house is very high. You've seen my estate sale photos, most of those houses never saw redecorating since 1960 yet the people took good care of their things. This "time warp" in communites and homes seems to be more of a phenomenon in Chicago vs anywhere else in the states. You wonder how long it will last? However, consider how highly populated this area is, that has huge impact too for increasing the probability of finding nice vintage items.

Besides being a CTC-15, The CRT Bezel could almost pass for a CTC-12 version. There are some slight differences to the now trained eye! The black accents must be exclusive to that model too. That is just really a beautiful set.

I once had a CTC-12 that was in a black metal cabinet with black screw in legs that I really liked but I had to part/thin out my sets in the late seventies when I moved from Michigan to Texas...kinda' reminds me of it...:tears:

Doug, One other thing the Greater Chicagoland area has besides what you mentioned is lots of houses with basements! If the folks ever did any upgrades then the downstairs aquired the old stuff.

I remember the sixties style existing but the basement was stuck in the fifties with the old but still working blonde black and white and maybe a pooltable and a homebuilt bar!!