I'm wondering about the text in this ad...
Hard to believe that Zenith was "America's largest selling TV", unless you were going by sheer cabinet size!
Secondly that style of CRT mask in the ad is the 1962 style, so this ad must have been very soon after Zenith's re-entry to color. If so, the text is pretty gutsy.
Ceebee: My comment about cabinet size had me wondering... Since Australia is a large country (in land mass) like the US, are your 50s-60s-70s consumer prodcuts such as TV's/fridges/etc. typically as large as their US counterparts? I base this on the fact that Australia had/has a lot of really cool cars that have more in common with US cars than anything from Europe/Japan.
Were there lots of consoles/combos?
As an aside, you might enjoy this Australian-related humor... A friend and I ate dinner last night at a chain-steakhouse with an Australian theme (Outback). I asked for my steak in a "butterfly" cut, which will turn almost any piece of beef into something that looks (roughly) like the Australian continent. When the server brought my steak, I pointed to it, and told her "This is why they call it Outback, they will only purchase beef cuts that look like Australia" while I pointed at a map. She bought the story, and I went into great detail about how hard it was for them to find correct-looking steaks and so forth...
After a minute or two, I started laughing so hard I nearly cried.
Maybe it's just my bad sence of humor.
