Just brought this novel console RCA back to life for SandyG,
Yes it's a 9" wood console.......

Wow ! Terry, again, you're the greatest ! -Sandy G.

This television reminds me of a solution to problems involving enviromental damage, natural resource shortages, and issues of urban sprawl.

Some people have called it "heavy-handed", but my motto is: "Anything that helps the children can be justified by the goverment." :yes:

What if the government were to issue "birth permits", as it currently does with marriage, guns, housing, mobility, speech, etc... Much of this in the interest of the chil'rin. :thmbsp:

We could limit parents to heights under 5'5". Every few years, we would lower this threshold incrementally (much as has already been done with other laws) until the average adult height was 3' tall.

(Thus making this TV appear to be a 25" console)

It would also make a MINI as big as a Suburban, a 1500 sq. ft house would be huge, and the 1/8th pounder would be McDonald's biggest hambur.... uh... food product.

Can you imagine how much less fuel, land and cows we would then consume, with no appreciable loss in quality of life? :banana:

Except perhaps the giant cats and dogs roaming the streets... :scratch2:

I know the history on that model, it was actually custom built for Billy Barty, and eventually gave it to Hervé Villechaize. "De plane! De plane!"

Anthony

Actually, I've seen quite a few of these little guys You-Know-Where. They're usually offered as quite "R@RE !" or "Salesman's sample". They're really nothing more than a late '60s RCA 9" tooob B&W TV, in a fancy-pants case. Now, if they'd been color, that would have been a different story...-Sandy G.

It's so cute! ;)

There is one of thiese things on ebay listed as a 40's vintage RCA tv.

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Andy,
This one's listed on ebay as "Vintage collecters RCA mini TV" or something like that with
a 9.99 dollar starting bid. Just search under RCA Vintage TV. The seller states that its out of the 40s or 50s.

Not bad for a hybrid SS/Tube set, next we'll see that it is from the 30's.

lol.

i have an old GE color TV 9 inch, just like that one, except its plastic, and it uses the old compactron tubes, no SS at all in it.

im thinking from 69, and it prolly aint worth 10 cents. But it works good.

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i know its a GE. it has a 9 inch rectangular tube.


The picture is insanely nice on it. looks better than some of them today.