Where is everyone from?
 

It seems unusal to find a group of people with the same pasion for history and quality. I'd like to meet all of you but chances are most of you are spread out across the country, my name is Larry Melton and I live in northern Indiana, South Bend, Indiana area

oldtvman, if you go to the User CP, you can edit your profile to include your favourite description of your hometown. Makes it easier for others to know if/how to help you, if you post with a question.

BTW, look up, WAYYY up, (not really that far up) and you will see that I am from the place in Canada, where we travel NORTH to go to America, Land of the Free and Home of Oreos with Double Stuf.

Windsor-Home of CKLW...Ah, yes....-Sandy G.

A good way to meet a bunch of TV collectors from all over the country is to come to the Early Television Convention in Columbus, Ohio at the end of the month. This year we expect over 100 attendees. Here is information:

http://www.earlytelevision.org/2005_convention.html

Oldtvman,
I could be mistaken, but weren't all the early RCA's and Magnavox's made somewhere in Indiana? That would have been a whole lot of sets to be shipped from Indiana to the rest of the country.

We should probably all be toasting to you paying honor of this fact.

Hi Larry (oldtvman), I know SB fairly well as I'm a Studebaker nut! Was last there in the spring of 2002 for the 150th anniversary. Man it was hotter than the hinges of hell! Sure did enjoy the fireflies at night though :-)

Has the city pulled down any more of the buildings in the Stude corridor? I know that their intention is to clear just about everything but the old Administration building and the one that SASCO occupies. How's the new museum shaping up? After decades of boondoggles and disappearing funds it's about time this actually got built.

Anthony (former NYer)

Magnavoxes were made in Fort Wayne, Indiana. The government contractor portion of Magnavox, if it still exists, may still be there. RCA TV's were from Bloomington I believe, it seems like there was a Thomson plant there up till very recently.

well,i'm probably the youngest dude here (22) and i'm from columbus ohio,and i visit indiana every summer and i THINK my magnavox was made in indiana..
frank

Where are we from or where are we now?
 

From Baltimore, MD, but now (since 1991) near Boston, MA.

Have I lived in Chicago or the Chicago area all my life? Not yet!

Well, maybe in this forum, hotrod, but on AK, we have some members who are little more than half your age. Some 14-15-16 year-olds. Fun to watch 'em learn, even if one does wince on occasion. In that regard, they are no different than the rest of us. And not having spent as many $ on gear, that is. Yet.

I am from Charlotte NC. My son is in grad school at ND. Go Irish!!!

I'm in Omaha, Ne. Got started in this hobby as a kid in my Uncles sales repair shop in Tekamah, Ne. Jamie

Toronto, and my name is Dave.

G'day Larry, I'm Troy and I'm from Australia mate :thmbsp: ! I'm not much older than hotrod54chevy, I hit 24 in October.

I'm personally fascinated with early television, video cameras and video recording technology, I especially love to get my hands on as much early live colour videotape recordings of the late 50s and early 60s as possible as it's soooo interesting seeing reality from over 40 years ago in high quality as I've seen too many scratchy B&W kinescope films of that era and use to think that's the quality of live television back then hehehehe :lmao: . Anyways seeing these early TV sets and cameras and live TV shows on quad videotape and film being brought back to life is bloody awsome and I say "good onya" to those putting in the hard yakka into getting them up and going :thmbsp: !

Australia was the last to get colour, colour started here 19th October 1974 on an part time basis until the opening day 1st March 1975 which all programs went colour. But we had experimental colourcasting in the 1960s.

Next year is Australia's 50th anniversary of television and at the Sydney Powerhouse museum there's going to be a lot of television related gear on display including the 1930 Baird Televisor mechanical set and a 1938 Marconi electronic B&W TV set. And of course I'm going up there to see these fantastic pieces of early TV technology, hopefully there might even be a roundie colour set imported for display too.

Lastly I'm not a TV collector as I have no room to store them but would love to collect if I had the room, I'm a vintage video collector and I have a website http://70scountdown.50megs.com/ which features all my video gear, it's about finding lost episodes of my favourite 70s Aussie rock show "Countdown" which involves looking at 70s vintage format videotapes to find recordings of the show on.

Cheers
Troy

I'm from New Jersey, just outside New York City (14 miles directly north of the Empire State Building, old and current home of NYC's TV stations). If not for the trees I could SEE the Empire State Building from here.

When I was a young kid, my family never traveled outside the NYC metro area, and thus never saw any TV stations on channels 3, 6, 8, 10 or 12. And as the networks were based in NYC, and CBS was on WCBSTV2, NBC on WNBCTV4 and ABC on WABCTV7 and they said that they did nationwide broadcasting, I took it to mean that these TV stations covered the entire country. But then why the empty channels? At the time I was in early grammar school, where we had to do lots of pointless things like memorize poems and such. I figured that the government made the TV makers add the empty channels on the dials of TV sets for no other reason than that the government could make them do it. Just like the teachers made you do stuff in school. Why should adult life be any different?.... :D

Remember the old WOR-9 Secaucus Howard Stern show? Got all the episodes and am slowly revisting them. What a perv (him AND me!)

Anthony

Im originally from Downers Grove, IL which is about 20 miles west of chicago. Moved a little farther west to Batavia, IL last July. I loved my home town of Downers Grove had alot of fun finding old TV's around the area in the past. All my TV interest started with a fascination of circuit boards and vacuum tubes at a very very young age of about 3. Im surprised it started that early, but thats what mom always said.

I was born right here in Chicago, in a hospital about 6 blocks from where I live. I probably would be happier in a smaller town, but I have grown to like it here in the Windy City...

Your Hometown
 

OldTVMan- you have a PM

Im in Wenatchee, the town I grew up in, right in the middle of Washington State. I recently moved back here from West Seattle.

Shelby Ohio
I listened to that station alot before they changed their format.
Actually I didnt really know they were located in Windsor untill
some time after. It was because they kept playing this as
thier station ID.
http://www.thebig8.net/mocity.wav

Grove City, Ohio (near Columbus)

Philadelphia here
 

I'm originally from Rockford, IL with a move to a tv job in Philadelphia in 1980. Still in broadcasting today.

Started collecting in 1984 with a flea market set that was in pieces for $25. No idea what I had and knew nothing about sets then. Just some radio collecting before that. The set turned out to be a 621TS.

Dave A

Originally from Barstow Calif but have lived in the "Inland Empire" area of So Cal for the last 18 years, currently in Redlands.

Eric

Rogersville, Tennessee-very close to Pixley & Hooterville. Seriously, I'm in NE Tenn, about halfway between Bristol & Knoxville.-Sandy G.

:-) ! (half of the folks here probably have no idea what you're talking about -- unless "Petticoat Junction" and "Green Acres" are still out there in rerun-land)

I'm located in Jackson, TN. Thats in west Tennessee between Memphis and Nashville on I-40.

Think I saw "Green Acres" on TV Land the other night-Don't know what I lusted over more-Eva Gabor or the big Lincoln 4-door convertible they drove. Last season they had a Mercury Marquis De Sade convertible-it just wasn't the same.-Sandy G.

My favorite was character was Mr. Haney "Oh, Mr. Dug-less!"

born and raised in mississippi 7 miles from alabama 20 from tennessee :lmao:

rcaman, my uncle lives in Okalona, which I guess isn't too awful far from you. My Dad just got back from there. Before leaving the airport at Philly they paid $50 for breakfast someplace. A couple days letter he had a much bigger & better breakfast in Mississippi for $2.

I live in Federalsburg, Md., a little town of around 2,000 a stones throw from the Delaware line. I grew up about 10 miles away near the smaller town of Preston. I suspect I'll live my whole life here, assuming it doesn't get too overdeveloped.

Charlie--> Born in Port Arthur, Texas. Live in Nederland, Texas. The two are right next to each other... about 90 miles east of Houston.

Currently, as of this post, I am in Texas City on board the ship I work on. Hey... there's a big hole in the gound here where someone had a boo-boo at the refinery!

They seem to enjoy doing that in Texas City. 1947...Now... maybe you ought not tarry too long there, Charlie...-Sandy G.

Too many places...
 

Born in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania.

Raised in Philadelphia / Wilkes-Barre, PA / Atlantic City, NJ / Plymouth Meeting, PA / Bethlehem, PA.

Lived at least one year or more in: Clear, Alaska (65 mi s/w of Fairbanks) / New York, NY / Barnegat, NJ / Eatontown, NJ / Oakhurst, NJ / Blue Ridge Summit, PA / Long Branch, NJ / Wanamassa, NJ / Toms River, NJ / and Asbury Park, NJ, where I’ve lived now for ten years, longer by far than anywhere else. Maybe that makes me the oldest guy here at 65? :cry:

Hey Pete,

That witness protection program can be hell. I was born in Pasadena, Ca. and raised in Hollywood. As a youngster in Hollywood/L.A. there was always plenty of TV (seven stations by the early 50's). Got our first set in 1949, an Admiral 10" console. I was always driving my folks nuts, as a teen in the 60's, by climbing on the roof and installing bigger antennas to fill in the blanks on the tv dial. Meaning the San Diego stations 100+ miles to the south.


-Steve D.

born in west los angeles right in the middle of everything,10 mins away from hollywood,15 mins away from the beach,lax,and downtown.in desoto tx right now for school.the first tv i remember us having was my grandmothers 1955 capeheart b/w set,dad got a zenith when i was 6,lasted 15 years.im most likely the youngest member of the group (22),but i remember KCOP ch 13 now UPN,because my grandmother use to shop at the bargain circus across the street from the station,and she took me on their little tour of the studio once a year there.

charlie sheen

Polaraman: Born in Berwick Pennsylvania. Raised in Carlisle PA. Spent my early 20's in Hagerstown MD. Joing the Army and all hell broke loose. El Paso TX, Denver CO, Pirmasens Germany, Denver CO, Mentor OH, San Antonio TX, and now Columbus GA. (Fort Benning)

Hi Oldtvman,
I was born and raised here in Waynesboro, VA. I havent lived more than a 15 mile radius since being on my own. Its a small town that still has alot of those small town qualities that you dont see anymore and rests literally at the foot of the Blue Ridge Mountains. Patsy Cline was born 30 miles north of here in Elkton and the Statler Brothers and President Woodrow Wilson are from the next town over in Staunton, VA. The University of Virginia is located 30 miles east of here in Charlottesville and was designed by President Thomas Jefferson who lived nearby at Monticello. Theres alot of history around here both interesting and mondain but a very nice place to live.

I've been tinkering with tvs, radios and record players since i was a pup and credit that for keeping me out of trouble while everybody else was out cow tipping and frog giggin' :) I lost interest in them for awhile when i discovered i liked cars too and could work on them (is actually my trade today) and only got back into old electronics when parts became available again on the internet and forums like this were created. I wouldnt trade any of it for the world.

I also wanted to welcome you to the forum! These are some of the greatest guys and gals around and hope you enjoy your stay!
-Tony

Waynesboro/Afton Mountain ! Lovely place ! Ever go up to Swannanoa ? That place kinda blew me away 1st time I saw it..I went to school at Univ. of Richmond.-Sandy G.