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Wow! Easy to see why the guy was so very determined to have my set. I mean there are often what one might call similar sets, but that is drop dead identical to what I sold him. Now that I look back, that and a similar but newer basket case Motorola are the only two Bakelite sets that I have ever owned, or seen for that matter other than in pictures here or elsewhere on the WWW.

The basket case I mention has an interesting story really. I always noticed a burned out building along the highway that stood that way for a number of years. One day I got a little adventurous and stopped my truck and entered the building. It turned out to be a restaurant that had to have been shut down for years before catching on fire. I say that because of the items left inside which were pretty much dated to the late 70s or maybe the early 80s.

The TV was what people would have watched as they ate their meal. Now I hope everyone doesn't hate me for what I am about to say, but this was a place that was left to the vagrants and everything of value to normal people was long taken out. TVs like this were still in service when this place was operating, but it would not have been something that the proprietors would have taken with them when the place shut down, nor after it burned. Anyway, I grabbed the TV and took it home. It was hardly worth the strength that it took to pick it up, but I remember stripping the C.R.T. and the rest of the tubes and scrapping the rest.

Really, there are a lot of old sets in abandoned buildings that I have ran across, but that is the only one that I ever grabbed. LOL, the others were too big like just up the road there is an old country house that has a color "roundie" sitting in a room upstairs, or at least it did 6 or 7 years ago..... I knew of a similar one in another town, but the building got demolished along with the roundie......