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Vintage photo of viewer and her old TV
Found this in one of those magazines you find in your hotel room, the sort promoting the local city.
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IIRC, that TV set looks like a GE model (when GE meant General Electric, not.....well, you know) from about 1962 or earlier. No UHF, so it must be from the very early '60s or even late '50s, before all-channel tuning was mandatory in this country. I remember seeing a few of those sets when I was growing up in the late '60s-early '70s, when people held on to their old TVs until they fell apart. Those older sets were built to last; most folks really did hold on to them until the wheels fell off, so to speak.
BTW: What hotel did the magazine containing that picture come from? Just curious.
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That's my first TV! The one I have been looking for for years:
http://www.vintagetvsets.com/wanted.htm |
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Snagged this one off ebay. Someone wasn't holding the camera very well. Cut off most of the TV!
http://cgi.aol.ebay.com/ws/eBayISAPI...category=14279
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oops... forgot the pic....
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Another eBay pic
Anyone know the TV? I know what type of clock is on top of it! (See the first post in this thread)
Last edited by Eric H; 03-24-2004 at 01:45 AM. |
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Looks almost identical to the DeForest-Sanabria I gave away last year.
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TV in classroom, never used
Here's a photo of a class in my old Catholic grammar school. From around 1964. Someone installed B&W TV sets in each classroom so we could watch something the teacher selected from our local educational TV channel (in the NYC area it was channel 13). Notice that the TV set is sitting in the back of the classroom. The teachers never used the TVs. They spent most of the time drilling the kids on arithemetic and grammar so we'd score well on the annual achevement tests. If it didn't show on the test, it wasn't taught.
That blackboard pointer saw more use hitting kids than pointing out stuff on the blackboard. Last edited by wa2ise; 01-18-2006 at 11:58 PM. |
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TV in school
I recall our elementry school having 2 Magnavox 25" color sets. They were bought around 74 or 75. Didn't get used very much. I bet those sets are still there today. I do recall watching the first space shuttle accident on those sets.
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1976? RCA console
This is one of the TVs I grew up with.
I think this is a 75 or 76 console. My grandparents had an RCA that I think was a little older because it had the on/off toggle switch and the picture controls hidden in a drawer that swings out. Also in the pic is an old cable box and 13 year old me reading the instructions to my NEW Commodore MPS-801 printer. This must've been in 1984 when I got my C64 system. |
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eBay photo
Possibly an Emerson?
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That wallpaper is giving me flashbacks! Why, I can taste the rainbow LOL Can you hear the smell?
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Nother eBay foto
Unknown set?
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My "first" TV
That first shot in this thread really caught my attention. I thought I had a shot of this set with that clock in the picture. (That's me on the left -- a half a century ago!) I still have the clock, but the set is l-o-n-g gone.
Anyone know where I might find one of these ugly Motorolas to become the sentimental centerpiece of my collection? |
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Dave S, that TV set's CRT looks to have an aspect ratio of 5:3 instead of the usual 4:3 for an NTSC set. The 5:3 ratio is close to what is used in modern digital HDTV. Maybe your picture's aspect ratio is vertically squashed, but the people and the TV dials look correct, not squashed.
Maybe an HDTV set manufacturer should make a set with "retro" styling. Styling like that used in our antique sets.... |
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