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[Einar72]

Boy, that brings back memories. My dad bought a similar one when I was 5 or so. I broke the channel-knob shaft (it was made of white plastic or nylon). It came with a remote that was reverse-painted on the top, very nice looking, with a keyboard along one side. It was so much fun pushing the channel buttons around the tuning knob and watching it rotate to catch up. The tuner drive made a thunk-thunk-thunk with a healthy 60 Hz motor sound resonating through the cabinet frame. When it got to the selected channel, the key popped out with a clack. It had a round speaker, IIRC.

I do remember it being troublesome, and my dad only kept it for about 3 years. I remember watching the show "Camouflage" every weekday in Portland during the summer of '62 on it before I'd go out to play with the othr kids. After we moved back to Seattle that fall, he sold it to a brother-in-law who used to use the phrase "it has a blue tube" a lot. Our next two sets were 23" Silvertones from the Sears store just blocks away.