Old Westinghouse Console

[Jeffhs]

I'll grant you the Westinghouse TV being discussed here is a unique set, but I can't help thinking what a nuisance it must have been to raise the TV to its normal viewing position every time it was to be used. Was the TV itself on some sort of motorized shelf that would rise up from the bottom of the cabinet? Zenith had a projection color TV in the early 1980s in which the screen would rise up from the cabinet when the set was in use, and would retract into the cabinet when the set was turned off. (NBC used an arrangement very similar to that as well for its flat-panel screen in Jay Leno's old "Tonight Show" studio.) I'm sure the Zenith color set must have had some kind of motor-driven arrangement to raise and lower the screen as well.

[jeyurkon]

Originally Posted by Jeffhs

I'll grant you the Westinghouse TV being discussed here is a unique set, but I can't help thinking what a nuisance it must have been to raise the TV to its normal viewing position every time it was to be used. Was the TV itself on some sort of motorized shelf that would rise up from the bottom of the cabinet? Zenith had a projection color TV in the early 1980s in which the screen would rise up from the cabinet when the set was in use, and would retract into the cabinet when the set was turned off. (NBC used an arrangement very similar to that as well for its flat-panel screen in Jay Leno's old "Tonight Show" studio.) I'm sure the Zenith color set must have had some kind of motor-driven arrangement to raise and lower the screen as well.

My mother would have loved it. She didn't like us watching TV so much. "Out of sight, out of mind." She kept the doors close on our 1-128 Syvania console.

John