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Estate sales in 2005 is by far the worst year yet for old tv finds. Only decent tube type color set I found this year was back in june, a '68 rca victor remote control console in a colonial cabinet. the same month I found a little 1969 ctc-22 portable. Ive hit almost all the estate sales every weekend in the chicago land area this year and have turned up hardly anything. Back in 03 and 04 I was finding a tube type color tv every 3 weeks!
Well, I got lucky today and happened to find a 1965 zenith space command 400 roundie in the black and gold chinese cabinet. This TV came out of a very wealty part of the north side of chicago. It was one of those "cabinet is too nice to throw away" tv sets. Even though the tv barely works, it is complete and almost mint condition. Will need to fix the color circuits and repair the convergence yoke (its cracked apart). Good news, it gets a decent picture with sound and the remote control works the way it should.
This was a very nice way to conclude "estate sale finds" in 2005