Couple of pics from the museum
 

Took the kids to see Santa at the Henry Ford museum today and snapped of a couple of pics that you may or may not like. Sorry cant tell you what they are but I'm sure you will probably know.

Grumpy

That's a great bunch of pics. That Motorola on the right... that's my favorite of the b&w Motorolas. Looks like a CTC16 on the left. Who knows what color set on the far left is??? Sure looks like it has a good picture!

That's a good lookin kid there, Grump! She must get her looks from her mother! :D

She's standing next to a '37 RCA console :)

The Sparton sled radio is a beauty!!!! Thankx 4 the pics.

Cheers, Henry :beer:

That's an RCA B&W set, it's been colorized! Not a rare set so no big loss.
Couldn't they have fixed the grille cloth while they were at it??

Those are hands on sets. The exhibit is very close to the kids part of the museum. Some bratty kid probably thought it would be fun to poke it in. Good thing they don't have a speaker exhibit with dust covers exposed..

Charlie, Leah takes after Dave.

Amazing, isn't it, that a face that looks so cute on her looks so...

I think I'd better stop right there. :D

I thought the picture on that set seemed a little too good. Plus, it seems if you were going to go thru the trouble of reworkin the innards of a 15" color set, you'd at least touch up that speaker cloth! :yes:

Couldn't they at least turn down the color?

I've been there, and seen this, some years ago, but I can't recall if the center set also had new guts installed.
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I have a video about Herbert Hoover from his historical home, and they make a point of the fact that he was into the latest technology. They show off the color roundie he had in his office - but, it likewise has new guts installed, and pretty poorly too, so you can see a big gap between the bezel and the new picture tube. :thumbsdn:

They look the same as they did in '03, that RCA had the ripped speaker cloth back then!
I peeked into those sets at the time, and it looked like all of them had 27" color monitor chassis installed. Even the poor Zenith Panorama with the added base.

Those are all beauties or cuties there, whether with four feet or two... I especially like the looks of the "sled" radio. Thanks for sharing the pics! :thmbsp:

That radio (next to the Grumpette, I presume :D ), is VERY similar to one that my parents have in their ol' fishin' cabin on Lake Champlain...long, medium and shortwave...last I knew it wasn't QUITE working, but I betcha with my friends here at AK, we could revive it!

I was starting to think that, only 4 knobs on the front and a brighter picture than that much newer set on the right! No way would that old-looking of a roundie be that bright in that bright light.

I understand and agree with the reasoning for "modernizing" the sets...

But god forbid a B&W set actually displays a B&W image!?

I'd rather get my history lesson from the curb!:thumbsdn:

"from the curb?"

In 1990 I took the last of several field trips to the Smithsonian American History Museum. It so happened that they were having an exhibit on radio/television. I ate it up. There was a stack of great table top TV sets from the 10-12" era, all "working" thanks to a Trinitron stuck inside :( It bothered me for years, wondering if they had scrapped the guts.

I don't really see the point in making an old set work by putting new guts inside. I guess they think people will think it's the real thing and never know. For me it's better to have it unworking and just on display. I know it would be too hard to keep them running with the real guts inside but it could be done if they really wanted to. Maybe not run em 24/7.

The way I look at it, it's like putting a 2006 Ford motor in a Model T driving it around making people think they are looking at a original "T".