[Jeffhs]

That Crosley set could have passed for my folks' second TV, which was also a Crosley Super V. Theirs was a blonde console, though. We had it for several years, until my mother decided she wanted an all-channel TV; then the Crosley was relegated to the basement, where it stayed until the early seventies.

That set worked very well all those years, too -- I don't remember my dad ever having to replace tubes in it, and it worked even after we replaced it with a black-plastic cabinet 17" all-channel Silvertone portable in 1965 or so. I remember a greenish spot on the top of the cabinet, caused by a figurine with a green felt base sitting atop the set for years. We never could get rid of it, but if it weren't for that, the cabinet would have been very nice looking.

BTW, were crumbling yoke covers really a problem with all 1950s-vintage televisions? I thought the covers were made with thicker plastic (inches thick) in those days, with the newer CRT sets of the '60s through the end of the NTSC era having the flimsy, paper-thin plastic yoke covers that would fall apart if you so much as looked at them funny.