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Today was a special estate sale that I attended. It was at 6953 W. 63rd St. in Chicago.
I came to find out that the people who lived at this home worked for Zenith. There were numerous Zenith products throughout the home. A neighbor was at the sale who told me all about them (Scully and Cecilia Santucci). They both worked for zenith on the production line after WWII. They apparently worked there until retirement sometime in the 1970's-early 80's.

As you would expect, some old Zenith TVs were found. Thats about all that was left too. I was told by others at the sale for the second time that there were tons of NOS zenith tubes, radios and transistor radios, all of which were bought up the first day of the sale. There was also zenith schmatics and other zenith related items that sold quickly. Supposedly, there was a yellow royal 500 that some collector found, and it was unknown to the collectors that a yellow 500 was ever produced. All we could think of is that it was some kind of prototype. This guy turned the house upside down trying to find the missing battery cover for it today! No luck though.

The TV's as usual were totally ignored. I was able to save all of the "old" sets. There were three of them. First set was in the back room, a 1965 Zenith rectangular color set, which is the first generation rectangular chassis (25MC36). Next two sets were downstairs, a 1973 4 tube hybrid w/cart, and a 1963 Zenith b/W console. The b/w console had the factory UHF tuner which is a rare find.

I looked all over the house to see if I could come up with anything related to zenith other than just some TV's. Well, I got extemely lucky and found a box of photograph that were for sale, just a few photos thats all.......I'll post the photos and other items later on.