Grandparents Philco

[newhallone]

I was visiting my Grandmother last week. I brought my son along because he had not seen Great-Grandma for quite awhile. While I was there she was digging thru some things and found the receipt for their first TV.

It was 1955. Total cash price was 249.95 from Casey & Obrien in Madison Wi. 24 monthly installments of 9.74.

Model number was 4013. I tried looking for photos of it but did not have any luck as of yet. I looked on the net and have not had luck finding that model either. Anyone have a pic??

She also told me about the first time she saw a tv. She was walking by a bar I think it was in Deforest Wi. Sometime during WWII and saw a flicker in the window. She had heard they had a tv so she peeked in the window to see the new wonder. she said "Oh, so thats tv." She started hearing water on the window awning but it was not raining. So she stepped away and looked up. some guy was pissing out the upstairs window onto the awning. So it was a very memorable introduction to TV.