TV sets of famous/important people
 

I was looking at a thread at the Color TV forum whose title was "Elvis's RCA color TV at Graceland" and I thought it could be interesting if we started posting pictures of vintage TV sets that belonged to famous people. Here's my contribution ( I know, it's a horrible picture, but was the best I could get photographing a newspaper with a simple digital camera ): a 1951 TV radio-phono combo that belonged to Brazilian President Getulio Vargas ( two times President of Brazil: 1930/1945 and 1951/1954 ). I wish I knew the brand of the TV, a friend of mine said that it's an Olympic. The TV is with some other 900 itens that belonged to President Vargas in the Museum of the Republic in Rio de Janeiro. I emailed the museum weeks ago asking for information about this TV, but so far got no response. When I get the opportunity I will go to Rio de Janeiro and take better pictures of this TV. Unfortunately, it will not happen anytime soon, because I live at more than a 1000 kilometers from that city.

Anyone in the New York area could take pictures of President Roosevelt's TV sets at Hyde Park?

I repaired a 15" RCA New Vista Color portable for astronaut Buzz Aldrin. That was in the 80s. I also worked on a cheap RCA (Hitachi) VCR for President Reagan when he had his office in Century City after leaving the White House. It was fun meeting & talking with Buzz, but I never got to meet Pres. Reagan... Never in the office :(

As far as Elvis, I've seen programs showing inside the Graceland mansion, and I recall seeing a row of CTC-25-ish metal RCA sets mounted in the wall in a theatre room...

Charles

Roy Orbison and Waylon Jennings both had an Advent 1000A back in the day. Obviously led to premature death. (sorry, they were both good guys)

Both also recorded for RCA, as did John Denver, Harry Nilsson, Frank Zappa, Jerry Garcia and others who checked out prematurely. All but Jennings died around their 52nd or 53rd birthday (my next).

Both also died from their diets; Orbison had a triple bypass and Jennings had diabetes.

Boy, the new release of Firefox sure messed up my post..had to think fast to fill the extra two it created.

LBJ had a Motorola 23" Color TS908 chassis. Don't remember the model number.

Bruce

Marilyn Monroe's TV
 

This one belonged to Marilyn Monroe.

Don't believe everything you read in an eBay listing.

:scratch2: What? You mean Jack Benny didn't have a blond CT-100!:scratch2:

Marilyn Monroe's TV
 

No, that TV really belonged to Marilyn Monroe...The photo didn't come from Ebay, I saved it from the CNN web site. It was from an CNN artcle about several Marilyn Monroe things that were auctioned.

Pelé TV
 

That one belonged to the world's most famous soccer player of all time, Mister Pelé ... he bought it when he was 17, in 1958, just after he won his first World Cup in Sweden.

Can anyone identify this set? What is this, a GE?

But that color scheme ... those are the colors of the Brazilian flag ... looks like he ordered the TV to be painted in those colors, I don't believe that this model ever came out of the factory painted in green and yellow!

Ooops, there's the picture!
 

There it is:

Can't upload!
 

What is going on??? I can't upload the picture! Something is wrong ... it just keeps saying "upload in progress" and doesn't get beyond this point!

Not a TV, but I have an old RCA VCR that was originally owned by actor George Clooney for more than 15 years. It is currently not working.