sweitzel
08-08-2008, 07:35 PM
Did anyone catch this?
http://sfbay.craigslist.org/nby/bfs/781910230.html
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Reply to: sale-781910230@craigslist.org
Date: 2008-08-04, 10:49AM PDT
Very unique and historic collection needs a new home. This is the Vintage Television Museum, owned by Jerry Grulkey. (Hint-Goggle his name.) This collection in in Ripley's Believe It Or Not and has been the subject of many national television interviews, and even in international press. (It made the cover of the Japanese TV Guide.) Jerry has the neat old stuff. He stopped collecting about the time we got married (over 25 years ago, and "yes", there is a connection there.) Anyway, he always hoped to be able to mount a permanent exhibit where electronic television was invented by Philo T. Farnsworth over at his Green Street Lab near the Ferry Building in S.F., but alas, although he was instrumental in getting a plaque dedicating the building as a historic place, he has never been able to get a museum in there. He had traveling exhibits around the Bay Area before he got into other interests about 25 years ago. Now his vast collection of consoles dating before 1950, historic apparatus, reference material, vacuum tubes, and even funky period decorative items are up for grabs. This could be an opportunity for a visionary to set up a museum in an unused storefront somewhere to be a tourist attraction, or continue as a private museum and historic archives. There is an informational DVD available for interested parties, or just come by and take a tour. It is pretty exceptional and very historic. Please don't hesitate to contact us for more information.
http://sfbay.craigslist.org/nby/bfs/781910230.html
text of ad: (no pictures)
Reply to: sale-781910230@craigslist.org
Date: 2008-08-04, 10:49AM PDT
Very unique and historic collection needs a new home. This is the Vintage Television Museum, owned by Jerry Grulkey. (Hint-Goggle his name.) This collection in in Ripley's Believe It Or Not and has been the subject of many national television interviews, and even in international press. (It made the cover of the Japanese TV Guide.) Jerry has the neat old stuff. He stopped collecting about the time we got married (over 25 years ago, and "yes", there is a connection there.) Anyway, he always hoped to be able to mount a permanent exhibit where electronic television was invented by Philo T. Farnsworth over at his Green Street Lab near the Ferry Building in S.F., but alas, although he was instrumental in getting a plaque dedicating the building as a historic place, he has never been able to get a museum in there. He had traveling exhibits around the Bay Area before he got into other interests about 25 years ago. Now his vast collection of consoles dating before 1950, historic apparatus, reference material, vacuum tubes, and even funky period decorative items are up for grabs. This could be an opportunity for a visionary to set up a museum in an unused storefront somewhere to be a tourist attraction, or continue as a private museum and historic archives. There is an informational DVD available for interested parties, or just come by and take a tour. It is pretty exceptional and very historic. Please don't hesitate to contact us for more information.