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A very neat story; great to come across stuff like this. I think I would have been drawn to the Arvin, too. I don't think I've ever stumbled upon one in the wild.
I've seen photos of a Firestone version of those trapezoid shaped 7JP4 portables (I forget who actually made them-Tele-Tone, TravLer?) When I think of Firestone TV sets, though, the one that comes to mind is an early/mid-50s 21" table model. Why? The house I grew up in backed up to a woods. If I walked through to the other side (better part of a mile) there was a dump pile for that farm and sitting on top was a Firestone TV. I often tried to think of a way that I could drag that poor hulk home, but never did. Amazingly, nobody had ever shot out the crt.
Neat also about those being in use up into the 80s. The equivalent of an apartment today with a TV from the 70s which, yeah, would be a dump! Unless one of us rented it, of course. Which brings to mind another story, involving a flophouse in New Jersey, but I'll save that for another time.
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