Westinghouse K840CK15 Restoration

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Originally Posted by JohnCT

Not completely related, but I'm going to retell a story my dad used to tell. Back in 1959, my dad bought an Admiral 21" color TV. Admiral built the cabinet, but it was an RCA supplied CTC11 and CRT.

My dad had a customer interested in buying a color TV, and since there was no color broadcast during regular hours or weekdays, dad invited him to our house on Sunday night to watch NBC (Walt Disney I believe it was).

The man sat quietly for an hour and when the show was over, stood up and told my dad that he came to laugh at the color TV. He never expected to see something so beautiful as what he saw that night.

I don't recall if the man bought a color TV or not (dad is gone now almost 20 years so I can't ask him), but I always got a kick out of that story.

John

Great story! Seeing a color TV for the first time will have that effect. Similar experience for me at my Uncle’s house. I told this story before. He invited the family over for dinner, Sat or Sunday. He had it planned, after dinner we all gathered around his new pride and joy, a color television! It was Summer, 1956, I was 9. He turned it on and my jaw dropped. A Special was on.

Was your Dad a tech or good with electronics?