Speaking of 30" Dumonts

[cbenham]

[QUOTE=Eric H;2961767]Anyone seen one of these?

Not one but two when I was a kid. There was a DuMont dealer on a busy street in St. Petersburg, Fl. where I grew up. They had the 30 inch set in the picture and also a two piece version that had a remote control console on a huge umbilical cable so the CRT cabinet could be placed up high in a bar and the controls in a more convenient place to be operated. I dragged my dad down to their store and got a demo!

[Pete Deksnis]

Originally Posted by cbenham

...the CRT cabinet could be placed up high in a bar and the controls in a more convenient place to be operated.

re the 30-in. Dumont. I saw one too when I was a kid about 12-years-old in the main area of the Lafayette Hotel in Atlantic City NJ. I walked in there and my jaw dropped. The management had roped off an area on the left side of the room and placed rows of folding chairs for guests. As you reported, this set was a number of feet above the floor, making it easily visible. My parents were friends of the owner, who had this hotel and another in Florida, so I knew something about the guy: he was a businessman first, but a techie at heart. In the late '40's, he played a Hallicrafters SW receiver on the other side of the same room for -- he explained when I asked -- the guests. I recall at the time being surprised that a hotel owner would do something so interesting and neat. When he saw the 30-in. Dumont ad, you know he had to have one and had the wherewithal to justify the bucks.

Pete