Polk Brothers Chicago early 1950s
 

This is a wrapper sheet that covered a Polk Bros. handout of the Webcor House Party Book (25c), which contained suggestions for party activities, many, of course, involving a Webcor tape recorder.

The picture of the TV sales floor at the bottom of p.2 is the interesting one, with a large black and white roundie (DuMont?) shown front and center.

I wonder if that is a Dumont Royal Sovereign . . .

http://earlytelevision.org/dumont_ra-119.html

Phil Nelson
Phil's Old Radios
http://antiqueradio.org/index.html

300 early tvs operating in the same room... Must have had a huge air conditioning bill in the summertime!

That is fun to see, thanks for posting it.

Trade in your monitor-top refrigerator...

"From America's greatest factories"
"People that HAVE are HAPPY People"

Washers and dryers all hooked up and opetational!

What an amazing time and place !

Yes, I think that's a Royal Sovereign! I'm really impressed that a store would stock 300 models of TVs, all operating. Quite an engineering challenge to set up the signal feed and power wiring for all those sets.

And in those days, those sets were expensive. The cost of that inventory of working sets (and presumably some additional ones to actually sell!) would be absolutely huge.

I would not have guessed that such a TV megastore would have existed back then, and to think that it was part of a big department store selling rugs, furniture, jewelry, etc. Impressive!