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Old 01-05-2009, 11:04 PM
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1939 Golden Gate expo

RCA at the 1939 New York World's Fair got all the glory - but there was TV at the 1939 Golden Gate fair in San Francisco too.
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Old 01-06-2009, 12:37 AM
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I was processed out of the Navy from Treasure Island. One of the silly thing they had us do while we waited for our paper work to get finished up was to pickup trash around the base. You can still see left overs like a fancy fountain from the Expo? held there in 39. And a few other things not plowed over in the many years since.
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Old 01-06-2009, 05:20 AM
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Ah, all those promises of the future which never came true...where's MY cigarette-smoking robot?

Seriously, how come the New York World's Fair gets the sole credit for introducting television in the US? That Sarnoff publicity machine?
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Old 01-27-2009, 02:25 PM
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I finally got around to looking at this carefully. The TV set displayed is not one of the Westinghouse 1939 sets. It looks similar to the RCA RR-359, but not exactly the same. Anyone have any ideas?
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Old 01-27-2009, 06:35 PM
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To heck with the TV, I want one of those X-Ray Fluoradex machines.

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