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Recently I have been able to find a pretty good amount of tube type radios and radio phonographs at estate sales along with lots of electric motors, fan blades and fans.
I haven't seen very many tube-type TV's at all over the last 5 years or so. Mostly the ones I do see are the small black and white sets.
Old radios seem to have a lot much more sentimental value to people that old TV's and seem to be held on to a lot more...I have seen this in both buying them to own, and in what people bring in to get repaired at our repair shop.
I actually found a CTC-25 or CTC-17 this year at the thrift shop (haven't opened it up yet) but this is very rare.
Several of the estate sale companies here send out emails with links to photo galleries and this has been very helpful at spotting things I'd like to get.
I sure wish more sales would operate in the evening, at least one day so people working regular hour jobs could go easier. On the rare occasion I have gone to an estate sale on a weekday if I have taken some time off work I am amazed how many people are there at say 2:00 in the afternoon or 10:00 AM on a Thursday or Friday.
When I was a kid I often would find good stuff at garage sales but unless the ad mentions old radios or a jukebox or something like that I don't patronize garage sales. It takes 1/2 hour just to drive to town and it's too much wasted effort if the sale doesn't have any thing good.
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