Wow! Looks like they are trying to sell everything in the house so they can sell the place in a hurry or soon. I bet a lot of stuff will either be given away or (gasp!) trashed if it doesn't sell; after seeing the pictures, I think there is much too much in that house to sell in just a few days. Seems like the home's former or present owner was or is a hoarder; that or else they grew up or lived as adults in a time (notably the Great Depression era of the 1930s) when people simply did not throw anything away.
I've noticed (I can't help but notice) that most if not all of the estate sales mentioned here are in states other than Ohio, and those which are here are nowhere near where I live, in the northeastern corner of the state near Cleveland; if it weren't for that, I'd at least look at some of the sales. One problem I have is that I don't drive, and so cannot leave this area (let alone the county or the state) easily. Another is that there just aren't that many estate sales around here, at least I haven't noticed any lately -- and I've lived here over ten years. I can't believe that in a small town like this (population 3215 and dropping, according to my barber, who lives not far from me) there aren't more sales, as there are quite a few older people here, many of whom grew up and raised families in this area and are likely (almost certainly) up in years now; some of them have undoubtedly passed on, leaving homes that need to be emptied so they can be sold. I see yard sales and garage sales every now and then, but I have yet to see an estate sale here, unless they are advertised in the local newspaper and I miss the ads (I often do not even look at the classified ads, so I probably don't see 99 percent of the sale advertisements).
Oh well. It's probably just as well that there aren't many estate sales here, as I wouldn't have the room to collect old radios or TVs, particularly the latter (my apartment is very small). People such as Doug (drh4683) in Chicago are lucky to have enough room in their houses to accomodate their collections (and I bet, now that Doug is in his own place, he has plenty of room to store at least part of his vast collection of vintage Zenith TVs); I would say I wish I were in his situation, but, skipping the details, I moved to an apartment over ten years ago from a three-bedroom house out of necessity (it's a very long story and OT), and I'm glad to be rid of the responsibilities that are attendant to owning a home, which I would have had had I decided to stay there. I don't have the space here that I had in the house I left, but that's one of the tradeoffs one makes when one moves from a house to an apartment. Doug won't have to worry about that for some time, depending on how long he stays where he is, but if he should move to an apartment or a condominium some time in the future (when he is my age or older--I'm 53), he will have the dickens of a time, I'll bet, getting rid of all those sets, unless he has some or most of them in storage.
BTW, I looked high and low in the picture gallery for the estate sale in Chicago being discussed here, but I did not see the Zenith console TV which was mentioned. I did see the picture of the Admiral round-screen set bandersen (Bob) picked up, however, and I do hope he won't have too much trouble restoring it to past glory. I saw the dial drive arrangement for the tuner (looks like a slug-tuned affair resembling DuMont's Inputuner) and it looks like a nightmare to service if the dial cords break or otherwise need to be replaced.
