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Originally posted by cork
JefHS,
You mentioned an early 60s GE small console that's slightly convex. Here is one I saved from the dump. It's not convex
but does it ever have a fine box.. 0.75 inch stuff that is very
heavy.
It does have the jumbo heavy oval speaker, and very mechanical remote
control, with the little remote box, and it's original receipt, for an amount close to 600 bucks.
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I guess "convex" was not quite the word I was after. I seem to remember, however, that GE had a small console in the early sixties with a rounded top; maybe that's what I was thinking of.
Your set looks very good for having been made probably well over four decades ago. I did not realize, however, that this model had a wired remote. The set I'm thinking of, with the rounded top (I could swear I saw at least one of them when I was a kid, as I had relatives near Chattanooga, Tennessee who had one, IIRC) did not have the remote. I wonder...was the wired remote an optional accessory?
And the price--wow! Six hundred bucks for a black-and-white 21" TV in 1962 or thereabouts? Heck, that's close to what some table model and portable color sets sold for in that era (RCA's Cosmos table model had an MSRP of $500 in the late sixties), although the big 25-inch three-way consoles from RCA, Zenith, Magnavox, et al. were closer to a grand ($700-900 was a popular price range for one of these monsters in the '60s).