1969 Wards Ad--Roundie Color Set

[Oldstuff78]

Here is the 1969 Wards Ad I promised I would upload in the Roundie thread.

[MRX37]

The funny thing is that nowadays, even WITH inflation, you can get a decent color TV for under the price listed in the ad...

I just looked on Google shopping and saw a 32" HDTV for about $350.00

[old_tv_nut]

Thanks for the post

[wkand]

Greatpost! I recall another AK'er posting an ad for another roundie at approximaly the same time for about $250, so there was quite a range of proces that late in the roundie game. I recall another Sears ad for $450 for a roundie in 1969.

[Tony V]

Cool post! Thanks
-Tony

[JB5pro]

That sure is a cheapy look'in set. I think it would be great to have one today but back then I would have feared it would be too cheaply made to bother with.
It looks like it doesn't have UHF but I guess it must somewhere in those cheapy look'in controls.
The CRT frame looks almost identical to part of the frame on the RCA's CTC-15 series.

[Oldstuff78]

Originally Posted by JB5pro

That sure is a cheapy look'in set. I think it would be great to have one today but back then I would have feared it would be too cheaply made to bother with.
It looks like it doesn't have UHF but I guess it must somewhere in those cheapy look'in controls.
The CRT frame looks almost identical to part of the frame on the RCA's CTC-15 series.

I don't care for the legs on it. I would see if the legs would unscrew and sit it on a nice console or cabinet as a table TV. It has that space age look to it. Maybe it was designed to celebrate the 1969 moon landing

[radiotvnut]

I'm sure that set has UHF due to FCC requirements. I'm sure those legs unscrew. I've seen several steel cabinet RCA and Zenith sets where one could screw on legs and make it a console set. Even most of the wooden consoles of the late '60's and '70's had screw on legs.

[Oldstuff78]

The set does have UHF....if you click on the Text part to enlarge, it says UHF.

[ChrisW6ATV]

It is probably the typical VHF/UHF tuner setup of that era. Between channels 13 and 2 is the UHF position, with the channel number showing through from the dial underneath the VHF knob. Turn the outside fine-tuning knob in either direction past the end of the fine-tuning range to fast-tune UHF channels, then back the other way to fine-tune the UHF channel/range you selected.

[Findm-Keepm]

Originally Posted by JB5pro

That sure is a cheapy look'in set. I think it would be great to have one today but back then I would have feared it would be too cheaply made to bother with.
It looks like it doesn't have UHF but I guess it must somewhere in those cheapy look'in controls.
The CRT frame looks almost identical to part of the frame on the RCA's CTC-15 series.

It's probably an Admiral or Westinghouse set - both made sets for Monkey Wards. The model number can be deciphered from the catalog number, I believe. Anybody have a Sams Index at hand?

Cheers,

[kbmuri]

Wards GMW17249A?
Sams 1061-2

[ceebee23]

wow $360 in 1969 = approx $2035 today! color sure wasn't cheap!