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Originally Posted by jr_tech
Interesting story...I had never seen this thread, glad it popped back to the top!
"My grandfather ( who is still alive ) was in the USA in 1954, and saw the Rose Parade in a CT-100 in a hotel...."
Were many of these sets (I assume the earlier "model 5") set up in hotels for the Rose Parade demo? Is there a list of the chosen demo sites posted somewhere?
just curious,
jr
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Here is a link to Ed Reitan's "History of Color Television" site that discribes his viewing, as a child, of the 1-1-54 Rose Parade in color on an RCA Model 5 at a hotel in Omaha, Neb.
http://www.novia.net/~ereitan/rose_parade.html
-Steve D.