How do you find sets in your area?

[JCFitz]

Originally Posted by radiotvnut

Back in the '90's, I was finding tube and early SS TV's on a regular basis. Most of the tube sets consisted of '50's B&W consoles, '60's and '70's rectangular color console and portable sets, and portable B&W sets from the '60's and '70's. I remember bringing home 2 or 3 color roundie sets and one RCA 10" round screen B&W. Unfortunately, back then, I wasn't interested in saving old TV's. TV's were something for me to fix and sell so I could finance my antique radio collecting. And, at that point in time, I could sell just about any working TV that I got my hands on.

Same here only I was buying records and jukeboxes with the money.Those sets started taking up valuable storage space when nobody wanted them anymore. All they wanted was silver or black remote tvs. Then the bottom fell out on that when the prices got really low on those and flat screens were all the rage so I got out of the flea market business,gave all my tube type and hybrid portables to a fellow collector and gave away what I could of the working ss ones. The non-working ss sets went to the landfill along with about 70 non-working vcrs.

I've decided that moneywise and spacewise I'm full up on jukeboxes (The market is dying on those now except for highly desireable ones. Go figure.No more side money and jukes are getting cheaper.They were at their peak when I was buying.) and want to get back into a nice vintage tv but they're not out there anymore.