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I think the Medalist line was among the higher end Sears products. Your set was probably made by Wells-Gardner or Warwick (chassis number prefix will tell).
You are right about these old TV's once being in good supply. Starting in the late '80's and continuing into the late '90's, I was finding old tube TV's on a regular basis. The early '90's was when the final round of tube sets were likely taken out of daily service and most of their owners were from an era where it took a lot of hard work to own something like a nice console TV and they didn't throw them out when they stopped working or when something "better" came along. Many of those old sets, especially the solid state sets of the '70's, would last for decades.
Now, we (or, should I say, they) go out and spend $1000 on a Chinese flat panel TV that may die in two years. Then, we (oops, they) find out that the required circuit board to repair it is either NLA or cost as much as a new TV. That's one reason I will not buy a new TV. I can pick up an old TV from the '70's and fix it for next to nothing. It will likely last me for years and I can see just as much on an old TV as I can on a new one.
As far as people from my generation keeping something, such as a TV; well, it's not likely to happen. Heck, the TV wouldn't have to die for most people in my age group to trash it. Just let something "bigger and better" come along and that's all it will take. I wonder how many people are dumping their standard LCD TV's in order to make room for a new 3D set?
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