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My grandma won a similar Philco from a drawing when a new Jewel food store opened. As a kid, I was kind of creeped out by it. Not sure why, as we had a b/w portable Zenith as our main TV until '77. After grandma passed on, the set got passed around the family. In the '80s, when I was new to the insides of TVs, I changed a tube in it and was disappointed by the 'tiny' PCB compared to the b/w Zenith. It eventually went up to the UP of Michigan to my aunt & uncle's cabin, where it was later destroyed in a barn fire. The Jewel store closed in '08 and was knocked down last year. A new medical center just opened there last month. Kind of fun to look back at how things come and go.
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