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I don't see too many pre-'80's TV's in my area. Even 12" B&W's are getting hard to find; but, I get them whenever they turn up.
Growing up in the '80's and '90's, I remember when almost everyone had a big floor model TV in the living room and there were still a good many vacuum tube TV's in service. Up until the late '90's, I was always finding tube and early solid state color/B&W TV's. Shortly after the turn of the century, it seems like the supply of vintage TV's was suddenly turned off.
I first started picking up broken TV's to fix and resell back around 1990, as a young teenager. At that time, I was picking up broken 12" B&W's at yard sales for a dollar or two. I could usually fix them for a few dollars in parts and sell them for $20-$25. Then, I started picking up color TV's and I could get very good money for just about any color TV.
I think what's happening is that the supply of pre-'80's TV's around here has about run out. I'm sure there are some stuck back here and there; but, when people dig them out, they toss them without making any effort to find a home for them because they see them as an "old worthless obsolete TV" that no one would possibly want.
Over the years, I've stashed away a few TV's for my use because CRT TV's are NLA on the new market and I detest flatscreen TV's. I grew up watching various CRT-based color and B&W TV's that were good enough back then and they are good enough today.
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