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I wanted to go to the Empire State Bldg, but Henry, my Dad, said he didn't know how to get there... I THINK both World Trade Centers were "Up There,
by then, pretty sure ONE of 'em was, anyway. ANOTHER street we went down-My Mom had FITS, was the "Diamond Street"= Both sides of the street were crammed full of these TINY shops, populated by these ODD looking guys who wore these "Old Timey" suits, white shirts, NO tie, & these hats that were pitch black, but looked like somethin' outta the 1920s,or Thirties. My Dad said they were Acidic Jews, & I SHOULDN't STARE at 'Em. We SURE didn't have ANYBODY who looked like THAY at home.
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"Acidic Jews" - Ha ! I like that..... The real real good electronics crap was on Canal st.
You ever get a time machine, you remember to set it for Canal St. 1969.... .
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Hehehehe... When school took up again, I went to the library, & told the librarian about seein' those "Acidic Jews"... NOBODY could figger out what I meant, until the Principal-Who sat in the pew in front of us in the Presbyterian Church-quizzed Mama & Daddy about it, & THEN he realized what I meant... NOT "Acidic", but "HASIDIC"... I've had a few Joosh friends thru the years, & they always get a Kick from that story... TOTALLY innocent, but my Mountain Brogue betrayed me..WHAT was the street that had the REALLY "Good" electronic junque shoppes on it, it was COMPLETELY obliterated by the WTC complex ? It was a REAL "Radio Row", & about any kind of tube, widget, hooberbloob you could name was likely there, in abundance ? There was a Rat's warren of streets there, that they completely did away with...
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http://www.qcwa.org/radio-row.htm. You can also Goggle "Radio Row" for more sites. -Steve D.
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I was born in 1998, and my first exposure to vintage TV collecting was watching YouTube videos of all the American sets out there.. And then at one point I had 20 TVs.. Now it's reduced down to 10, 8 at the old house and 2 here. One of them is my 1958 Empress Electronics Super Fringe, which I use as a radio because the TV section needs a new 6AL3 horizontal output tube.
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It's a damper, which is essential for horizontal sweep (at least in the 99.21% of magnetic deflection sets that use one) but the large beam pentode that gets its plate voltage from the damper is properly called the horizontal output tube.
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What does collecting TV's mean to me?
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Really glad there are very young people interested in the hobby. I am 57, recent retired from Boeing, and I learned electronics from a former military and civilian electronics technician in high school, as a three year certificate program that earned you 1 full year at the local community college (way before "Running Start" type programs). My motivation was to learn to fix our household sets, and avoid those dreaded words, "It has to go to the shop." I was really into TV as a boy and teen, and watched all those 1960's sitcoms as well as the local Seattle kids shows (J P Patches, Stan Boreson, Captain Puget, Brakeman Bill) at the end of their glory days. My dad did the basics (testing tubes at the local TV shop) and even at 5-6 years old I was always fascinated by the glow of the tubes in the back of the set when he worked on it. He worked second shift at Boeing, took the speaker out of the set, and ran speaker wire under our carpet from the TV to his favorite chair so he could watch/listen to Johnny Carson after work without disturbing us kids. So I got the bug from him too, although he was never trained in electronics. In the 1980's I had a bunch of vintage sets from the 1950's, '60's and '70's, all with tubes, as well as several radios and parts. I was still living at home and every room had some of my collection. Mom and Dad finally said I had to get rid of the sets, and to this day I regret having to dispose of all of them. I still have a 1965 Zenith chassis 25MC33 roundy combo, and a 1967 Motorola 23" color console, but they are still at my parents house, and will have to go soon. I have no space in my current house, and my wife is not into it at all... I am a vicarious collector these days except for recently acquired test gear and a few older transistor radios from my parents and thrift shops. The bug has not gone away... |
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I've got 70% of a basement and have had north of 50 tube TVs and around 100tube radios down there. If you get serious I think you can find space for your two consoles EASILY (making it may take a bit of effort though).
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There will definitely need to be a "collectibles" room in the new dwelling...BUT we like our debt free financial state, and I do not want to jeopardize that either... Decisions, decisions... |
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When I started this thread I posed the question because when I grew up in the 50's there were no distractions like cell phones, computers, vcr's, cable tv and life was much more basic. Like many kids of that time I grew up with all the kid favorites of that era. One day my dad to me to a tv store and there it was a tv running that had a show on in living color. After that every time I saw the Peacock on tv the envy started to build. Color tv was about as out of place as having a UFO land in your front yard. Those sets were big, clunky and had the usual reliability issues, but one thing was clear, those who had sets were fans of color forever.
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At 56 and born in 60 I went threw the 60s watching a Sears color roundie that the service guy was constantly by to fix something and one day at probably age 8 or 9 there was a tube next to the hv cage and the service guy would tell me to push the tube to the side if the picture turns green and I remember the tube was not lit until I pushed it. This would never happen today, to much liability on the part of the company that would have sent the tech.
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I'm a 25 year old Software Developer, born in 1991. I feel I'm within the last few years of the pre-internet generation. I got a small taste of what life was like before anyone and everyone could do just about anything with technology, and it was always interesting to me what people could and couldn't do before all the moderm miracles I grew up with (That some of the even younger people on here would laugh at me for calling miracles). As I started to really research the technologies available before I was born, I became more and more fascinated. Things that I took for granted as a basic necessity (Color TV, Cable TV, Video game consoles, etc) were being introduced as futuristic revolutions, and things that were obsolete and unnecessary (B&W TV, OTA Broadcasting) were all that most people had. And some people didn't even have that. And that was only 30 or so years before I was born. Go back another 10 years, and you were the talk of the neighborhood if you had a set at all!
After the novelty of "Ha, that TV's old" wore off, the technology itself is what fascinated me. What's the difference between transistors and tubes? What's different between analog and digital signals, despite being on the same frequencies? How can I convert one to the other? How can I get something from the 90s to play on a TV from the 80s? How can I get something that came out a week ago to play on that same TV? How can I set up a microtransmitter to bring portable units into the mix? Should I really hook up an Xbox 360 to a 1.5" Watchman? With each experiment, each more absurd than the last, I'm learning more and more about television and broadcasting technology both old and new. And with it has come the desire I see from just about everyone here to keep, restore, and preserve the older technologies. I've absolutely learned the roots of where everything we take for granted nowadays has come from, and I've gained a very deep respect for that. |
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I remember my parents total automatic color magnavox used to love waiting for the tv repair man so when he pulled the bac off I could look in side loved those days and my grandpa having to full tube caddys him always giving me tubes
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