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03-21-2015, 10:33 AM
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Polk Brothers Chicago early 1950s
This is a wrapper sheet that covered a Polk Bros. handout of the Webcor House Party Book (25c), which contained suggestions for party activities, many, of course, involving a Webcor tape recorder.
The picture of the TV sales floor at the bottom of p.2 is the interesting one, with a large black and white roundie (DuMont?) shown front and center. 
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03-21-2015, 12:35 PM
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I wonder if that is a Dumont Royal Sovereign . . .
http://earlytelevision.org/dumont_ra-119.html Phil Nelson Phil's Old Radios http://antiqueradio.org/index.html
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03-24-2015, 12:34 AM
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That is fun to see, thanks for posting it.
Trade in your monitor-top refrigerator...
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Chris Quote from another forum: "(Antique TV collecting) always seemed to me to be a fringe hobby that only weirdos did."
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04-09-2015, 12:23 PM
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Yes, I think that's a Royal Sovereign! I'm really impressed that a store would stock 300 models of TVs, all operating. Quite an engineering challenge to set up the signal feed and power wiring for all those sets.
And in those days, those sets were expensive. The cost of that inventory of working sets (and presumably some additional ones to actually sell!) would be absolutely huge. I would not have guessed that such a TV megastore would have existed back then, and to think that it was part of a big department store selling rugs, furniture, jewelry, etc. Impressive!
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