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Old 12-12-2006, 03:30 PM
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Gigantic tv collection discovered

Hello,

one of the largest tv set collections in Europe was discovered near Frankfurt in Germany:

http://www2.magnetbandmuseum.info/st...fundus0.0.html

For larger pictures, click photos.

The collection is stored on a place of several thousend square meters deeply in enormous bombproof cellars.

See also:

http://www.fernsehmuseum.info/

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Old 12-12-2006, 03:57 PM
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I see at least four prewar sets. There may be others. Will these sets go on display?
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Old 12-12-2006, 04:08 PM
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I have no other information than what was given on this web page. I have contacted the webmaster to get more information.
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Old 12-12-2006, 05:06 PM
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Good Gravy! I would have to buy 30 sets a week to catch up!!!! Man, it would cost a fourtune in caps to get them all working.

There are a lot of those underground/aboveground bunker systems in Germany due to the cold war. Our post in Germany had an Huge amout of armour stored in a underground bunker. Seemed to me that the whole mountain was hollowed out. Great place to store stuff.


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Old 12-12-2006, 06:45 PM
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Old 12-12-2006, 08:18 PM
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The sheer mass of stuff..the mind boggles! I've seen pics of big gear collections, but this guy even has a collection of TV TRUCKS in there!

Personal thoughts on this, comparing his collection to my junk pile, er, collection:
There truly are people more obsessed than I am... and this collector is one of them.
I must be doing something right... I have ONE of the things in the pics (that I can identify).
I haven't 1/0000th of this person's (or group's?) space...nor budget.
I'm not jealous.

...well, not much.
It's nice to know so much old gear is being properly preserved, somewhere.
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Old 12-12-2006, 09:13 PM
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I'm speechless! If only a part of all that is operational, it's really amazing.
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Old 12-12-2006, 10:45 PM
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Old 12-13-2006, 06:46 AM
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Well, when you Germans get an obsession, you REALLY get an Obsession...Wow...
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Old 12-13-2006, 08:07 AM
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Hello,

meanwhile I have got some more informations. This depot of vintage tv and broadcast material belonged to the German Fernmelde Zeugamt, a part of the Deutsche Bundespost. It is the depot where spare parts and vintage electronic devices were stored throughout the last century, starting with prewar material up to now.

The place of the material is more than 15,000 square meters.
Today the status of this depot is not really clear. I think it might be part of the museum of communication in Frankfurt.

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Old 12-13-2006, 11:35 AM
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But . . . Most of the TVs were not gigantic!
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Old 12-14-2006, 04:50 PM
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This is heaven on Earth!

Beautiful!Beautiful! Oh man, I'm still drooling...Whenever I get to enter, or see a place like that, I feel like I am in paradise. The people in charge of that place are indeed very German, because it looks very organized, and everything seems to have been well cared. Now, I thought this collection www.televisoresantigos.com.br was big ( 700+ sets ). It belongs to a friend of mine, but it's located on a small 3 store building. It's conforting to know that this collection in Germany is in this underground bunker - I believe it made it very safe, bombproof? Congratulations to the people who did the job of preserving all that stuff, if the world had more and more people like that, it sure would be a better place.
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Old 12-14-2006, 06:06 PM
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the German Fernmelde Zeugamt, a part of the Deutsche Bundespost.
Reminds me of Bern, Switzerland, which we visited several years ago. Their Museum fur Kommunikation includes the national postal service and electronic communications. The displays showed some beautiful vintage radios and TVs.

How much would you pay for this Lorenz Autophon, with TV, multi-band radio, and wire recorder?

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Old 12-14-2006, 10:01 PM
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Reminds me of Bern, Switzerland, which we visited several years ago. Their Museum fur Kommunikation includes the national postal service and electronic communications. The displays showed some beautiful vintage radios and TVs.

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Well, drat! I took a day trip to Bern from Geneva last year, when I was there on business - enjoyed it, but didn't know they had a comms museum - would REALLY have enjoyed that!
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How much would I give for that Lorenz ? Would my soul be enuff ? Nah, hell,,,,They'd prolly want the Lincoln convertible, too...
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