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oldtvman · #1 07-30-2010, 01:17 PM

I was looking thru some old photo's for another purpose and found these. I guess I was a weird teenager taking pictures of my televisons. I have both a Zenith which I bought new and then it shows the GE porta color that I replaced the Zenith with. At the time it seemed like a good idea now I probably would have wen the other way

The Cubs game was from WGN tv in Chicago, which we had to have a large yagi antenna to receive.

***Eric H*** · #2 07-30-2010, 04:30 PM

Is that Princess Leia on the Portacolor?

Sandy G · #3 07-30-2010, 04:36 PM

Porta-Potties ARE undeniably cute, though...

bgadow · #4 07-31-2010, 10:13 PM

Both of those roundies look identical to sets in my collection! A 25MC30 in its cheapest version with a painted, mottled brown cabinet with spindly metal legs, and a CTC-11 in woodgrain metal with spindly wooden legs.

batterymaker · #5 08-01-2010, 06:45 PM

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Is that Princess Leia on the Portacolor?

I suspect it's from the Bionic Woman...

newhallone · #6 08-01-2010, 08:46 PM

Sorta looks like Linda Blair.

eberts · #7 08-02-2010, 08:17 PM

How come TV repairmen always look like bums that crawled out from under a dumpster ?
Today the popular look for so called "technicians" is the shaved head look, talk like you know what you are doing when you don't, then blame someone else or the customer ?

Reece · #8 08-03-2010, 06:56 AM

Eberts wrote: How come TV repairmen always look like bums that crawled out from under a dumpster ?
Today the popular look for so called "technicians" is the shaved head look, talk like you know what you are doing when you don't, then blame someone else or the customer ?

Yeah, and have enough tattoos to blend in with the wallpaper.

Sandy G · #9 08-03-2010, 09:17 AM

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Originally Posted by Reece

Eberts wrote: How come TV repairmen always look like bums that crawled out from under a dumpster ?
Today the popular look for so called "technicians" is the shaved head look, talk like you know what you are doing when you don't, then blame someone else or the customer ?

Yeah, and have enough tattoos to blend in with the wallpaper.

...That, and the "ButtCrack Look" that's ever SO popular...

63bird · #10 08-03-2010, 12:04 PM

is the little tv on top of the roundie for sound?

im 27 and remember my grandpa doing that. thanks for sharing the pics i enjoy old pics. i always feel i was born 30-40 years late but its cool becuase i can still find vintage tv's and stereos and of course old hot rods and im getting some of my family hooked on it too.

oldtvman · #11 08-03-2010, 03:20 PM

that was a set I was repairing for someone and at the time the big set was not operational

this was in the late 60's

Sandy G · #12 08-03-2010, 03:52 PM

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Originally Posted by oldtvman

that was a set I was repairing for someone and at the time the big set was not operational

this was in the late 60's

Looks more like an early '70s haircut...You long-haired hippie type Commie So 'n' So, you....(grin)

wa2ise · #13 08-03-2010, 07:42 PM

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Originally Posted by Sandy G

Looks more like an early '70s haircut...You long-haired hippie type Commie

I was in a Catholic high school back then, and the assistant principal was freaking out over our evil long hair and evil blue jeans...

Sandy G · #14 08-03-2010, 08:45 PM

The boarding school I went to, yr hair couldn't touch yr ears-they wanted "Whitewalls"-or yr collar. That was in 1971-72, by fall '72, they kinda relented on the "No hair over the Ears" thing. But it had been a military school up til May 1970, that was coming a LOOOONG way for them...

JB5pro · #15 08-09-2010, 05:08 AM

I like to see old photos. C,mon guys.... ad some more!
Is that roundie in the dark a '65 Sylvania? It is not an RCA because of the two knobs between the tuner knobs.