drh4683
11-08-2015, 09:35 PM
I was on my local estate sale route this weekend and came across a very nice 1966 Motorola color TV combo unit. It was in the living room since new in an all original untouched home built in 1967. The home was quite a place and wanted to share some photos of it too. Today being Sunday, they were wheeling and dealing on everything. I got the Moto combo for $20 bucks! I was pleased to see it still works, granted all I could do was see a snow, but that's always a good sign when you get to that point right off the bat. They had the stereo going during the sale and it sounded good.
As I looked under the lid of the stereo, there were all the papers for the TV including a "Consumer Product Employee Repair" invoice. I also saw other Motorola parts and components around the house, so it became pretty obvious that the gentleman who lived here worked for Motorola.
The original owners of the home have passed on, but the grandson who was very close to his grandparents was there helping with the sale. I had the pleasure of speaking to him for quite some time as he discussed everything about his grandparents, the TV, and the home. His grandfather was an EE at Motorola for 38 years and retired in the mid 80's. Grandma was a stay at home wife and had their house built in 1967 when Mr. Feeney was ultimately promoted as a purchasing manager in the consumer division. The grandson told me that Motorola was a great place to work and treated their employees very well, he also worked at Motorola after he got out of the military himself. He brought me in the basement and showed me some of the power supplies and circuits that his grandfather designed and also the custom alarm system he installed after the house was built. He told me that the house was the "ultimate party house" and his grandparents were always throwing huge parties. He said one of the parties he remembered was so big that the Arlington Heights fire chief stopped by and said the house was exceeding maximum occupancy and it was "unsafe". Mr. Feeney offered him a drink and he didn't hear anymore about it! The house overlooked a nice lake in back and had their own little dock and sail boat as well.
The grandson offered to help move the TV out to my truck which was a great help. At first sight, this thing appears to be a massive back breaker, but to be honest, it wasn't that bad all things considered. I've moved much heavier units! We still had to catch our breath once we finally got it set on the truck.
Once I got it home, I checked everything out and see the TV is a TS-918 chassis and indeed has a GOOD original 23EGP22, both with matching June, 1966 date codes. It has a bright picture so the TV component probably wasn't used a whole lot. I was told that the phonograph was always being used though. It has the typical cataracts which I will need to "hot wire" to repair safely.
It also came with the original 1966 Motorola color TV brochure. This one is called the "Granada".
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As I looked under the lid of the stereo, there were all the papers for the TV including a "Consumer Product Employee Repair" invoice. I also saw other Motorola parts and components around the house, so it became pretty obvious that the gentleman who lived here worked for Motorola.
The original owners of the home have passed on, but the grandson who was very close to his grandparents was there helping with the sale. I had the pleasure of speaking to him for quite some time as he discussed everything about his grandparents, the TV, and the home. His grandfather was an EE at Motorola for 38 years and retired in the mid 80's. Grandma was a stay at home wife and had their house built in 1967 when Mr. Feeney was ultimately promoted as a purchasing manager in the consumer division. The grandson told me that Motorola was a great place to work and treated their employees very well, he also worked at Motorola after he got out of the military himself. He brought me in the basement and showed me some of the power supplies and circuits that his grandfather designed and also the custom alarm system he installed after the house was built. He told me that the house was the "ultimate party house" and his grandparents were always throwing huge parties. He said one of the parties he remembered was so big that the Arlington Heights fire chief stopped by and said the house was exceeding maximum occupancy and it was "unsafe". Mr. Feeney offered him a drink and he didn't hear anymore about it! The house overlooked a nice lake in back and had their own little dock and sail boat as well.
The grandson offered to help move the TV out to my truck which was a great help. At first sight, this thing appears to be a massive back breaker, but to be honest, it wasn't that bad all things considered. I've moved much heavier units! We still had to catch our breath once we finally got it set on the truck.
Once I got it home, I checked everything out and see the TV is a TS-918 chassis and indeed has a GOOD original 23EGP22, both with matching June, 1966 date codes. It has a bright picture so the TV component probably wasn't used a whole lot. I was told that the phonograph was always being used though. It has the typical cataracts which I will need to "hot wire" to repair safely.
It also came with the original 1966 Motorola color TV brochure. This one is called the "Granada".
https://farm6.staticflickr.com/5744/22467378848_ccec19a3a8_h.jpg (https://flic.kr/p/AenbYQ)DSC04675 (https://flic.kr/p/AenbYQ) by drh4683 (https://www.flickr.com/photos/135332734@N02/), on Flickr
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