TV sets of famous/important people

[Fred Sanford]

Originally Posted by Captain Video

What is going on??? I can't upload the picture! Something is wrong ... it just keeps saying "upload in progress" and doesn't get beyond this point!

Check the size of the file, make sure it's below the limits.

je (got lots of famous people's A/V stuff, but not TVs)

[El Predicta]

I remember seeing those tvs in the wall at Graceland. I believe those were RCA CTC 31's, in metal cabinets.
Recently, I found a picture on an Elvis calendar which has one of the little 8" red metal cabinet RCA's in the background.

[Aage]

Moses Znaimer, the founder of City TV, has for a number of years maintained a museum that once sat in Toronto's City TV main office. I suppose for space reasons, he moved it down the street, and it is also somewhat restricted for access.

I do remember once seeing a room set up to display a white console TV that was claimed to have once belonged to Marilyn Munroe, and knowing what I do about Znaimer, I doubt that this was made up.

The museum's website appears to be hosted now by the Canadian Museum of Civilization, and can be accessed here:

http://www.civilization.ca/hist/tv/tv04eng.html

I had a quick look but didn't see MM's TV though The following is a quote from the site:

"The core of his collection is comprised of approximately 360 television receivers; 12,000 assorted television tubes, lamps, capacitors, etc.; 1475 schematics and manuals for televisions; 200 items of television memorabilia, including the original Felix the Cat broadcast model; a library of over 300 books on television; 1200 television magazines; and 300 still photographs."

This is a man that is serious about his TV!

[waltchan]

Originally Posted by kx250rider

I also worked on a cheap RCA (Hitachi) VCR for President Reagan when he had his office in Century City after leaving the White House. It was fun meeting & talking with Buzz, but I never got to meet Pres. Reagan... Never in the office.

I'm really anxious to know what was the model number of Reagan's RCA VCR, and was it the 6-belt or 1-belt chassis?

[wa2ise]

Here's Emmett Till next to a TV set in his family's home. His family must have been doing fine, as that TV would have been only a year or so old at the time, and somewhat expensive.
This was the kid who was killed by some racists in the south in the mid 50's.

[Jon A.]

Dale Earnhardt Jr.'s RCA XL-100. Seems legit.

http://www.ebay.com/itm/221225519035

[David Roper]

I think we learned since this pic first appeared that Brando's set is a Pacific Mercury.

[wa2ise]

And the TV set Elvis shot:

[Jon A.]

Elvis should have known better, using one of those black metal remotes voids the warranty.

[Bill R]

A zenith remote?

[edison64]

More like a .44 or.45 cal remote... obviously his remote must not have match the chassis number...

[Reece]

...and that remote only has an "off" button...

[old_coot88]

Back in the summer of '75, i had taken a new job in Pinetop AZ, a small town which hosts a lot of summer resort cabins. Went on a service call to a cabin where the TV was a Zenith 19" color table model, 4 tube hybrid. Repair was very routine, tube replacement and minor set-up.
Back at the shop the Boss (with a slinky grin) knowing i was an aviation buff, asked "do you know who that guy is?"
"No, just 'Mister Boynton'".
"He is Pappy Boyington."
"You mean THE Pappy Boyington?!"
"Yep. He uses the shortened spelling to avoid the limelight."

'Mr. Boynton' in person was just a regular, anassuming guy.
To this day don't know for sure if the Boss was pulling a fast one. But doubt that he was, since he was a devout Christian and adherent to the Good Book.

(Lots of tuner repairs from blown baluns up there too, from nearby lightning strikes.)

[AdamAnt316]

Not a TV, but I have a Zenith VR-9000W Betamax VCR which supposedly once belonged to fashion designer Bill Blass. I found it at an antiques shop, along with a stack of Beta tapes of his fashion shows (newest one was from 1988). It supposedly came from his summer cottage, which they cleaned out after he died. I told the store owners that I had a working Beta VCR, and they said I could have the Zenith if I could confirm what was on the tapes. I had to mess with the speed and tracking controls on my BI-only Sony industrial VCR to play the tapes, since they were recorded in BII, but I was soon greeted by fuzzy images of models wearing pastel clothing. I brought the tapes back to the store owners, told them what was on them, and they gave me the VCR. I think they were planning to sell the tapes on eBay, but I have no idea what happened to them, and the antiques store closed a few months later. The VCR needs work, but I still have it.
-Adam

[mpatoray]

I remember hearing at one time that Regan Had a KV-3000.