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Old 10-20-2017, 09:50 PM
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Yes, it WAS called the "Spectacular"

The 21-CT-55 was, indeed, given a name -- "The Spectacular" -- as seen in this posed shot from the Bloomington, Indiana production line. But no one knows exactly why that name never stuck.

[IMG]M0962_BOX13_FOLDER15_SPECTACULAR by David Arland, on Flickr[/IMG]

At this time, of course, NBC was staging "color spectaculars" to show off color TV to the very, very wealthy who had it at home.

I found this shot in the RCA archives at the Indiana Historical Society -- and Ed Reitan and I used it in an ETF Presentation about the first year of color receivers a few years ago. RIP, Ed!

-Dave Arland
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