About once a year, we travel from the Wrong Coast to MN to visit relatives. Seems like there are always more interesting, affordable TVs in the Midwest. For example: who knows if it's still available, but for $50 here is a Philco set with mirror in the lid.

http://minneapolis.craigslist.org/hnp/atq/1717362535.html

Last night I also spied a Crosley (aka DuMont RA-103x) tabletop for $49.

It's probably better if I don't look at these things, since shipping anything home is not realistic. These people are probably just taunting me!

Phil Nelson

It seems to be for me. If I'd waited for my Admiral 24A12 to show up in my "back yard" I'd have never had one. You never see anything around here. Tennessee has a lot of good stuff but I think everyone must have been too poor back then to afford those fancy television sets.

Its a # 48-2500 projection set, from '48...........

Here's a link to a picture you can actually see.

http://www.earlytelevision.org/philco_48-2500.html


I still have a chassis, tube and miscellaneous bits for one of these.

ETF also has a manual:

http://www.earlytelevision.org/images/Philco_Service-48-2500.pdf

Interesting set.

Phil

"The grass is always greener", on a CRT that uses the original NTSC prospers... :D

Last night I also spied a Crosley (aka DuMont RA-103x) tabletop for $49.
I would like to buy that set, if there is a reasonable way to get it to the West Coast. I had one of those in Chicago in 1979-80; it was my first antique TV set.

Hi Chris,

I've got a 48-2500 right here in San Jose that I would be interested in finding a good home for. Let me know if you're interested.

Tom

It seems to be for me. If I'd waited for my Admiral 24A12 to show up in my "back yard" I'd have never had one. You never see anything around here. Tennessee has a lot of good stuff but I think everyone must have been too poor back then to afford those fancy television sets.

Boy, ain't THAT the truth ! Of course, we didn't have a TV station here in NE TN til '54, so you rarely ever see any of the REALLY old stuff. My little 7" Bakelite Admiral, the old guy who ran the theater, & worked on radios, too, had it. He & his pals had a place fixed up on top of one of the local mountains here, would plug it in, turn it on, & if the Gods of TV were smiling on 'em, they MIGHT pick up WAGA or WSB out of Hot Lanta for a second, or even WBT outta Charlotte...