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10-21-2014, 09:33 PM
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10-21-2014, 10:05 PM
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Nice magazine cover, although irrealistic - who would drag a heavy console TV like that to the side of a pool... and there would always be the risk of splashing water on the TV, damaging components...
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10-22-2014, 01:22 AM
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When I first saw that magazine cover, I scoffed, because no 1950 TV that I've ever seen would be viewable in full sunlight. The daylight would wash out the picture. The accompanying article says that there really were a few such TVs, although they may not have been available to the general public. A "prominent movie star" asked H.L. Hoffman, president of the Los Angeles Hoffman radio/TV company, for a set that he could watch at poolside. Hoffman provided a modified model 947 with a "black-faced picture tube" that was angled slightly downward to reduce glare. The article says that a similar set was installed "near" the pool at the Beverly-Wilshire hotel in Beverly Hills, and perhaps at other area hotels.
The TV picture in the magazine cover looks faked to me (of course, that would not be terribly unusual, even for an indoor shot of a TV playing). There is a similar black and white photo accompanying the article inside the magazine. It shows the same TV and the same three women, but in that shot, the TV screen is completely washed out from direct sunlight. I don't doubt that these TVs existed -- at least, for a few of the rich & famous -- but I'll bet they looked a lot better in shade than full sun. Phil Nelson Phil's Old Radios http://antiqueradio.org/index.html
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10-23-2014, 06:52 PM
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This 1990s music 'Deco Noir' inspired music video features the lead singer in what appears to be a full fledged TV/Radio repair shop, clock radios, TVs, CRTs and parts. I was tickled to find this by accident. Worth a look! Jump to 1:45 for the meat.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=G6Kspj3OO0s
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10-31-2014, 08:34 PM
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I found this photo on the Best Buy website today while shopping for speakers for my GE 7700 amp. Believe me... it got my attention... to go to a Best Buy site and find a cool looking old set! It kinda looks like one of those cool General Electric 21" sets that would have the big-ass speaker.
Anyway, the Magnolia Company sound like a store. Anyone here ever shop there? From their page... http://www.magnoliaav.com/about-us/history
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11-05-2014, 04:17 PM
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Cool picture!
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11-05-2014, 04:26 PM
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Since this song is at LEAST 20 years old now...I wonder if that shop still exists--or if it has gone into the "history books". I saw a couple of sets I recognized in the video--including what looked to be a 9-186 style Zenith set form the 1980's--and maybe a sharp linytron set too.
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11-06-2014, 12:55 AM
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Magnolia HiFi
Charlie Trahan:
Yes I have shopped in Magnolia HiFi many times, being a Seattle native. I bought several things there including my first CD player , a Yamaha in the 80s. Great store. Hi priced, but worth it. My CD player died about 2 weeks after warranty, and they fixed it anyway. Even though the stand alone stores are mostly gone, the same attitude lives on, via Best Buy .
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12-08-2014, 01:17 AM
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They still have a probably 70s Sylvania sign on the front of the place. That's cool. I remember going there probably close to 20 years ago to ask if they had any old sets sitting around and got a story that I have heard too many times of the truckloads of 40s-50s sets that they "hauled off." 
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12-11-2014, 08:28 AM
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