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Yeah those old sets were very heavy. I carried a Zenith porthole up a flight of stairs about 15 years ago and thought it would be my last living act.
When I was young and strong a buddy and I horsed a very early Crosley console up a ladder onto the shed roof and into my bedroom window. (I couldn't get it up the stairs indoors. The house was built in 1790, and had some odd stuff going on, architectural-wise.) This set was a monster with several stages of pix IF, and a 17" screen hidden behind storm shutters when not in use. Gorgeous cabinet, and fantastic sound and clear, sharp picture--once I had done some major recapping. Nice set, but it took up quite a bit of floor space, and weighed nearly as much as a piano. During the time that set was in that room we build a floor-to-ceiling cabinet in the middle of the kitchen below. When I finally tired of the set and carried it across the hall to my brother's bedroom for him to use the ceiling in the kitchen went up about an inch. I went down cellar and lallied up the floor to make the cabinet once again meet the ceiling.
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