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Old 01-11-2009, 11:01 AM
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I like those old TVs too, but I don't have the room for them anymore since I moved to a very small apartment nine years ago. Why oh why did I leave the suburbs and the nice 3-bedroom house with a basement I grew up in? (There is actually an answer to that question, but it is far off-topic for this thread, so I won't go into it.) Every time I see one of those roundie Zeniths (especially the color sets, such as the SC600s) I find myself wondering what it would have looked like in my former home, or here in my apartment for that matter. (I still remember how nice my 23" 1963 Zenith K2739 looked and worked, during the short time I had it in the late '60s-early seventies; gee, I miss that set, especially after all the work I put into it [new tubes, etc.] and considering how great the sound was, with a 6BN6/6BQ5 audio stage and a 6x9 oval speaker.) That's why I collect small table-model antique radios today; they are easier to repair than TVs when they go bad, and the smaller radios don't take up much room. I now have three wood-cased Zenith table radios in my collection that fit in my place very nicely and work well. But I still miss the old days when I had a basement half full of old TVs, including my Zenith K2739 and an Admiral "Microgrid 390" 21" console, not to mention a 21-23" white 1950s Admiral table set and even an Admiral 23" console that I swear had an AM/FM tuner and phonograph as well at one time. The cabinet was big enough and long enough to have housed all three components and several speakers, IIRC, but I guess the set's former owner came within a whisker of gutting the thing by the time I found it. I never did get the TV working. And then there was a 23" Motorola console TV I had until I moved in 1972. That set worked, and well; hated like the dickens to get rid of it, but...(the story of why I had to literally trash all but three of my old TVs in mid-1972 is in another thread).
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