[Carmine]

Wow, I hope 2008 will be as good (or better) as 2007 for you. This Saturday was my first luck at estate sales in a long stretch.

That house looks like it could be down the street from me! It seems that like Detroit suburbs, Chicago has a lot of brick houses. But in all my travels through the Chicago area, the houses seem to have extra tall foundations (i.e. at least twice the number of steps up to the front door) with very few garages. This style of 1-2 steps up and detached garage in the back yard is by far the most common in the 50s-60s vintage Detroit suburbs. However, like most other good things from that era it seems to have gone out of fashion and the "new" style appears to be a 25' driveway and attached garage. The great thing about this is how you get front-row seats to all your neighbor's garage junk, and whatever eyesore cheap car they drive. 1/3 of the front of your house is a door for your car! Home aesthetics are apparently now measured in the number of cheesy-fake peaks you have on your castle roof.

Back to the TVs...

Wow that GE is ugly, and I'm pretty tolerant of gaudy cabinets, but wow. Good that you saved it, 'cause I doubt many survive.

Was that Zenith hooked up to the VCR on the top?