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Originally Posted by edison64
I totally agree with you, living up in Northwest Indiana closer to Chicago there is a little bit better selection and quantity of the vintage stuff, but you would think that by living in Indiana, you would at least be able to find something by Meck or muntz but no I guess Plymouth Rochester and monticello are just too close... You have a better chance of finding a Hoffman then a muntz and don't even expect to find a Dumont anywhere
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Yes, I agree and what's interesting is that in the Elkhart, South Bend, and Goshen, Indiana areas I have hardly ever come across any vintage TVs, let alone vintage and antique radios, I've only ever come across pre-1950s radios 3 times in my life and none of them were in very good shape, the rest of the radios I've come across were post 1950s radios, and as far as vintage TVs go, forget about it, I've only ever come across 1 vintage TV in the wild near me and that was a 1962 Philco Townhouse TV that I ended up buying for $15 at a local antique mall and I'm currently in the middle of restoring it. and then a friend of mine from church gave me a 1957 GE 9T001 TV but again it wasn't originally from around here, it came from Tennessee originally. And the only Indiana made radios I've ever come across in the wild was a 1952 Arvin Clock Radio that was made by Arvin Industries of Columbus, Indiana (That I gave to my pastor to use) and a 1932 U.S. Gloritone Cathedral Radio that was made by the United States Television and Radio Corporation of Marion, Indiana, that a friend of mine bought for me that was electronically restored already including a brand new reproduction cloth cord but then the person made the mistake of trying to carry it by the speaker area and put his fingers through the speaker cloth and the speaker, which I had to patch the speaker and now I'm currently in the middle of trying to get the cabinet refinished and then getting some replacement grille cloth so I can finish restoring this old cathedral radio.