[Jeffhs]

I had an uncle, now long since deceased, who owned a Sylvania 23" b&w console TV. His must have been from the early 1960s or even late '50s, as it did not have UHF; it was just as well, I guess, since Cleveland (where he lived at the time) did not get its first UHF TV station, a PBS (then NET) affiliate, until some time in 1965. He replaced this TV with a smaller (I'd guess around 17", no bigger than 19") Admiral color portable which did have all-channel tuning, as required in all TVs made after April 30, 1964. He kept the Sylvania b&w set to use as a stand for the Admiral TV.

I have absolutely no idea what happened to either the Admiral portable or the Sylvania console after my uncle passed away, as this was quite a while ago (read many decades). If I had to guess, however, I would say someone in his family took the Admiral color set, with the Sylvania b&w console probably put out with the trash when the latter finally quit (bad CRT, power transformer, flyback transformer, or . . . ).

BTW, I was not aware that the CRTs (B&W and color) in Admiral televisions were so short-lived, as I read in another post. Was this because the tubes were being imported from a no-name offshore factory with a shady reputation for quality, while the TV chassis itself was made here in the USA? If this was the case, it was a darned shame, as Admiral TVs weren't half bad, to the best of my knowledge. (The only other thing I can think of is many Admiral CRTs had problems with X-rays, an issue which was very serious with color sets of all makes in the 1970s.) As I said, my uncle's Admiral color portable worked very well as long as he was alive, and was probably inherited by someone in his family after his death. It probably quit for good long before the DTV transition in 2008.