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As far as the crazy mixed up channel selector, the order of earlier Zenith sets like yours looks more practical in the areas that follow a traditional allocation pattern. In the New York City area for instance, your TV displays one channel after another after another with no breaks from 2 to 13 with the snowy channels are all bunched together. Even in my area where the only VHF channels are 3, 8, and 13, with the Zenith channel selector they're all huddled together. However, the fact that Zenith shuffled the channel selector order in a different mixed up pattern later in the fifties lends creedence to the opinion of those that say it was never really anything but a gimmick to begin with.
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