I was able to get to that sale over at 5532 Natzchez Ave on my lunch break yesterday to grab that '67 Zenith. The house was indeed congested. I didn't get to meet any of the relatives, but the people running the sale were nice. In fact, I got rather unusual treatment, not only did someone help me move the sets, but for the first time, more than one person at the sale actually thought it was cool that I collect and repair old TV's. I didn't get the strange looks or "what are you going to do with it" comments.
I did pick up that Blue metal cabinet Zenith portable. Its a '63 model in pretty nice shape. Still sitting in the corner of the bedroom like where it was originally pictured.
Then to the basement to check out the '67 Zenith. It isn't a bad set, it just needs a good cleaning. Its a power tune only which is OK. It has a 20X1C36 chassis.
However, there was a surprise of a find as Bob did not mention it. It could have easily been missed though considering the basement was packed. I had intentions on going to this sale either way when I was checking out the sale list earlier this week as whenever I see an old B+W set, I normally have hopes that older color set exists.
In the back corner of the basement there was another wood paneled room... I saw what appeared to be the top corner of some kind of console TV, all kinds of stuff on top of the cabinet, and stuff in front of it so it was completly blocked. I moved the chair and box out of the way to see what it was and I was shocked to see it was a Zenith roundie! And its not a 25MC33 as I would have expected. Its the 24MC32! I have no idea if either sets work but both are totally complete and have their original CRT's. Its nice to go to an estate sale and be surprised by seeing something unexected! Estatesales.net is great, but it takes the fun out of things to a certain extent.
All the sets were $10.00 each. Nobody running the sale was capable of helping me out as usual, but there was a guy in the basement who looked like he was capable of helping me out without giving me the usual "Can't help you, I have a bad back" routine. He was looking through the tools, he could hardly speak english with a heavy Polish accent, so I tried to communicate with him if he could help me move the TV's and I would buy his tools for my appriciation. He was all for it. His tools only cost $5.00 and he was more than happy with the trade off. So it was a good experince all around.
