Old photos of TV's

[wa2ise]

Originally Posted by Captain Video

Strange thing, it's not appearing for me in both threads. Must be something with the Internet on the part of the world I am in.

As far as I know (which doesn't say much!) Brazil has a First Amendment (freedom of speech, religion, press and such, in the USA we just call it our First Amendment rights, as this stuff is an amendment (1st one) to our constitution), so it's not like China censoring the picture. Try clearing your cache, or restart Firefox, or reboot the PC.

You'll be underwhelmed once you do see the picture...

[rld-tv01]

The picture didn''t appear for me either then I noticed that I wasn't logged in. Logging in fixed it for me. Funny I could see Captain Video's picture but not wa2ise's picture as a guest user.

[Captain Video]

Saw the picture, finally. It is from the 70's right? It is just the picture, or was that store really small?

It is not my favorite period ( I really love TV sets from the 50's ), but I do collect 70's TV sets as well, because they are parts of History too, and need to be preserved.

[wa2ise]

Originally Posted by Captain Video

Saw the picture, finally. It is from the 70's right? It is just the picture, or was that store really small?

It was a small store. About 4 to 5 meters wide, and something like 4 times as deep. My family usually got our appliances from the big box stores, lower prices. These small stores are very rare today.

[Captain Video]

This is an unusual pic I think. It shows the inside of a store that sold TVs, radios AND cars... Brazil, early 1960's - the TVs were of the Brazilian brand "SEMP" :

[tvdude1]

Great picture I drove those Dauphines in high school

[Steve D.]

Unknown TV/appliance store 1964. Several RCA roundies in the mix.

-Steve D.

[Tubejunke]

Originally Posted by Captain Video

This is an unusual pic I think. It shows the inside of a store that sold TVs, radios AND cars... Brazil, early 1960's - the TVs were of the Brazilian brand "SEMP" :

Semp Toshiba is today a major Brazilian manufacturer of electronics. Known for high end "notebook" computers.

[stromberg6]

Originally Posted by tvdude1

Great picture I drove those Dauphines in high school

I'm wondering if any Dauphines might still be running after all these years. I understand they were a bit "flimsy", and were quick to rust out. Nice looking little cars, though, IMO.
Kevin

[Captain Video]

Originally Posted by Tubejunke

Semp Toshiba is today a major Brazilian manufacturer of electronics. Known for high end "notebook" computers.

Yeah, the ONLY native manufacturer of electronics from the vacuum tube era that survived in this country. All the others disappeared in the 70's thanks to the government's clumsy decision of forcefully initiate color TV in a moment where the native factories were not ready for it. It was tragic, in 1956 80% of the TV set market was in the hands of those brands, by 1976 they were almost all out of business.

[Captain Video]

Brazilian comedian and singer Moacir Franco, in 1964, with a GE set:

[Captain Video]

I found two really cool pictures of Bettie Page with TV sets, but is it allowed to post those kinda risqué pictures in here?

[Eric H]

As long as she's not actually naked I don't see why not.

[Captain Video]

Ok, here they are:

[rld-tv01]

I was searching americanradiohistory.com and found this picture of eight new TVs for 1947. Who out there has all eight sets in their collection? I only have 3 of them: Viewtone, Dumont 102 Clifton, and RCA.

http://www.americanradiohistory.com/...-Page-0099.pdf