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Old 02-16-2010, 11:05 PM
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Vintage TV Servicing Ads

A friend sent me some ads ads from the Chicago Sun Times - November, 1957.

I wish I could get CRTs that cheap
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Old 02-17-2010, 02:20 AM
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I have stickers of TV repair shops from the 1960's. I also have ads of TV repair shops on 1950's magazines. I will post them here later.
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Old 02-18-2010, 04:21 PM
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This is not an Ad but it is very cool. A dispatch room of a TV repair shop taken back in the 1950's. Yes this is how they dressed & worked all day. The man in the chair is "Radiorich"
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Old 02-19-2010, 09:46 PM
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Wow, that's really Rich? I had been trying to judge his age...

I need to get to scanning...
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Old 02-20-2010, 09:26 AM
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1960's stickers

Those 60's stickers featuring Walt Disney characters are from a TV repair shop in Rio de Janeiro:
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Old 02-20-2010, 04:04 PM
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Here are some general TV ads from 1948!

http://www.archive.org/details/ClassicT1948_5

Ah the good ol' days!!

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Old 02-20-2010, 04:17 PM
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dispatch room of a TV repair shop
If that is Radiorich, maybe he can comment on whether that's an actual repair shop or a scene staged in a studio for a magazine or newspaper.

I haven't seen many repair shops with walls covered by drapes. You'd need a pretty big squad of repairmen racing around town to justify a dispatch staff of three employees.

I'm picturing an article in Radio News (or whatever): "Radio Dispatch Directs Repairmen to Service Calls."

In any case, people certainly did dress more formally in those days.

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Old 02-20-2010, 05:38 PM
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Cool picture in any case.
The TV is a Motorola Bakelite like the one discussed here some time back.

I can see this being real if this was part of a Sales & Repair outfit back in the day, a bit posed perhaps but the arraignment seems plausible, especially if it were a family owned business.
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Old 02-20-2010, 06:14 PM
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Fun looking at these commercials. I don't know why they have the 1948 date on the different parts: the commercials are all clearly mostly from the '50's and a few from the '60's.
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I find it a bit surprising that the Disney Corp would license Mickey Mouse at a rate low enough to make it affordable by a TV repair shop. Or maybe the shop figured Disney would never know the difference being located in South America. And the (c) WDP marking would make a causal encounter with a Disney employee think it was licensed anyway. Some years ago I knew people that did documentaries on technology companies, and they'd use some of the company's PR material. And in the documentary credits he'd say "thanks to XSZ Corp for permission to use their material". Figuring that a company big enough would have filed away permission deep in their company files, never to be found...
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I see that the one mentions Philips, so maybe it was done through them? I do have an RCA sign that features Donald Duck and his nephews
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