NY Zenith Roundie
 

It's illogical that I should come to hate a particular cabinet style, but why is every Zenith set from this era in this style?

http://cgi.ebay.com/Vintage-Televisi...QQcmdZViewItem

Either way, heads-up!

http://i2.ebayimg.com/05/i/000/b6/4e/d08f_1.JPG

These are much more attractive to me than the horrific Spanish/American colonial cabinets of the late 60's with all the overdone, plastic scrollwork. At least a cabinet like this could still fit in with contemporary furnishings.

When did that become good, lol? :D

Oddly enough, I believe that style is called "Mediterranean", so I feel obligated to like it. Yet having not a blonde hair on my head, I go for the Danish stuff.

But I dig the crazy Spanish-looking stuff you don't like. Also the American colonial Maple stuff... I like to think that George Washington would have watched the Gettysburg Address on this TV set...

http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v6...nithColor8.jpg

No plasic on that one!

I dont mind the spanish cabinets as long as they aren't PLASTIC.

If you like color roundies at all, you just have to hold your nose and ignore the boring/ugly cabinets. But then I'm more of a 1930s/1940s radio guy, in love with the days when there were more interesting cabinet styles :-)

Phil Nelson

Luckily, most of the really cheap, gaudy cabinets came after the switch to rectangular tubes.

Carmine,

I guess if George Washington can watch a colonial maple roundie, it isn't to much of a stretch for him to watch Lincoln's Gettysburg Address over 60 years after he died. Sorry, I couldn't resist.

-Steve D.

I sold Zeniths from 63 to 71. Italian provincial was very popular. It would blend in with many styles of dark furniture. Back in those “good old days” most sofas had legs about 6” long that were mostly plain and dark. Along with Early American. Then French provincial. If people had Maple furniture the only tv that would fit was the Early American. The Danish modern was just getting started and along came the Mediterranean. I’ve noticed a resurgence in French in recent furniture ad’s. It’s just more massive than it was in the 60’s. I have a Mediterranean bedroom set in solid oak from around 1963 and it was neither as massive nor loaded up with all the carvings that later adorned Mediterranean or Spanish-America. On my last trip to Mexico I saw they were still selling massive Spanish-America furniture with lots of carving.

No need for sorry! I put in those history screw-ups all the time and nobody ever seems to notice! Well they probably do, but are too polite to comment. AK is a little higher on the IQ than most boards. I'm sure there are other boards where I could have made that comment and somebody would respond:

"George Washington didn't watch TV stupid, electricity hadn't been discovered until Thomas Jefferson Edison made a light bulb in the 1930s." :D

AC and Tesla
 

Everybody knows we didn't have TV or electric lighting until Tesla invented AC and George Westinghouse brought it down from Niagra Falls :yes:

The inventor Thomas Alva Edison (in the USA) experimented with thousands of different filaments to find just the right materials to glow well and be long-lasting. In 1879, Edison discovered that a carbon filament in an oxygen-free bulb glowed but did not burn up for 40 hours. Edison eventually produced a bulb that could glow for over 1500 hours

zenith 49 vintage
 

A little different style

Isn't this one of the early color Zeniths with dissolving convergence coil forms and smoking flyback issues?

Also they are supposedly in a hurry to move it but haven't priced it accordingly. Also I can't believe they didn't plug it in.

John H.

Thats a uhf model too. thats about a 24LC30 chassis. At the current price and condition, it wont get a bid thats for sure. Hopefully the seller isnt greedy. Meaning that he would rather throw it away than give it away to someone who will appriciate it.

Zenith never had problems with smoking flybacks.