Old photos of TV's

[rca2000]

Originally Posted by StellarTV

This 1990s music 'Deco Noir' inspired music video features the lead singer in what appears to be a full fledged TV/Radio repair shop, clock radios, TVs, CRTs and parts. I was tickled to find this by accident. Worth a look! Jump to 1:45 for the meat.



https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=G6Kspj3OO0s

Since this song is at LEAST 20 years old now...I wonder if that shop still exists--or if it has gone into the "history books". I saw a couple of sets I recognized in the video--including what looked to be a 9-186 style Zenith set form the 1980's--and maybe a sharp linytron set too.

[wkand]

Charlie Trahan:

Yes I have shopped in Magnolia HiFi many times, being a Seattle native.

I bought several things there including my first CD player , a Yamaha in the 80s. Great store. Hi priced, but worth it. My CD player died about 2 weeks after warranty, and they fixed it anyway.

Even though the stand alone stores are mostly gone, the same attitude lives on, via Best Buy .

[wa2ise]

TV set in President Truman's Oval Office (look to the right side of the picture):

[Steve D.]

I couldn't find a tv in the Oval Office for the Eisenhower presidency. However it is documented that David Sarnoff of RCA presented Ike w/an RCA Model 5 prototype color receiver. Perhaps for the living quarters in the White House.

Here is the oval office TV for JFK. An RCA full door color roundie combo. On the right w/the ship model on top.

[Steve D.]

And for Lyndon Johnson's Oval Office, a 3 screen set up in a custom cabinet.
I assume to view the 3 major networks at the time.

[Dennman6]

Originally Posted by Steve D.

And for Lyndon Johnson's Oval Office, a 3 screen set up in a custom cabinet.
I assume to view the 3 major networks at the time.

That 3rd TV on the right under the "running man" statue is showing newsman Edwin Newman. The set must be tuned to NBC, as Newman worked there 1961-1984. Here's a period pic of Edwin Newman on NBC,

[Tubejunke]

Originally Posted by rca2000

Since this song is at LEAST 20 years old now...I wonder if that shop still exists--or if it has gone into the "history books".

I doubt it's still there. It would be hard to run a lucrative TV repair shop these days. I do believe that one of the many that were once in my area is still in existance, but they have been there for decades. I'm sure the owner just keeps it open for something to do instead of watching grass grow on a porch.

They still have a probably 70s Sylvania sign on the front of the place. That's cool. I remember going there probably close to 20 years ago to ask if they had any old sets sitting around and got a story that I have heard too many times of the truckloads of 40s-50s sets that they "hauled off."