Can't tell what it is but it's big and ugly, probably late 60's early 70's by the style.

http://inlandempire.craigslist.org/zip/1045944970.html

From the date on the photo he has been trying to get rid of it for over 5 years! Whatever it is, I'd say it's worth the price.

That looks like a big, hulking Curtis-Mathes early 70s color set. It's definitely NOT for me, but they're kinda rare nowadays!

Charles

problem is , its big and very heavy . Might be over 200 lbs . I remember moving a similar unit and there were three of us and it was hell moving it into a truck .

Curtis Mathes definitely comes to mind. And I've read that they used cheap cabinetry by the time this one was built....Pass.

Not to mention the shipping costs to NYC would be about a million dollars. :D

When i first saw the title of this thread, I thought it was about a jumbo-tron type of massive screen set.

Yep, CM sure had some cheap (and tacky) looking cabinets during the '70's. I had a '74 CM solid state combo with an NEC chassis. It weighed a ton and the cabinet was made of particleboard and plastic. I junked it in short order.

What I don't understand is why CM chose to cheap out the cabinets...and yours has an NEC chassis? I thought their motto was "the best and darn well worth it" or something. So, as early as '74 they were outsourcing their chassis and using particleboard? Sounds like the worst to me!

What I don't understand is why CM chose to cheap out the cabinets...and yours has an NEC chassis? I thought their motto was "the best and darn well worth it" or something. So, as early as '74 they were outsourcing their chassis and using particleboard? Sounds like the worst to me!

I think NEC built most, if not all, of CM's solid state color sets. What's funny is you may find the same NEC chassis in a cheap TG&Y store brand set. Of course, the TG&Y sets were much cheaper than the CM's. The CRT's didn't hold up very well, either. The '74 that I junked used a 23V delta gun westinghouse tube and it was toast and would not rejuvenate. The newer ones used an inline tube and they also would short and lose emission. IMHO, a Zenith chromacolor II, an RCA XL-100, or a Sylvania GTmatic would run circles around a CM solid state set, both in build quality and performance. Oh, and the stereos in their SS combos were nothing to write home about, either. They were about the same quality as a Lloyds, Yorx, etc. The turntables were usually cheap BSR's or Glenburn's. The later models had cheap plastic belt driven TT's.

I've seen one CM tube type color set from the '60's and it used an RCA clone chassis. IIRC, the cabinet was real wood.

I wouldn't mind having a little 9" TG&Y set or even a cheap transistor radio just as a memento - we shopped there for some things until they shut down (around 2001 here in New Orleans.)

I wouldn't mind having a little 9" TG&Y set or even a cheap transistor radio just as a memento - we shopped there for some things until they shut down (around 2001 here in New Orleans.)

We lost our TG&Y sometime in the '90's but I think the quit selling TV's in the early '80's. I think their smaller screen color and B&W sets were built by Sampo. The bigger sets were made by NEC. I did have an el cheapo '70's green AM clock radio from TG&Y.

I have a small B&W TG&Y set. I works ok when first turned on, but has some horizontal sync problems after warmup. I need to investigate. TG&Y headquarters was in Oklahoma, where I am from.

It's a Curtis Mathis, I used to do warranty work on them and very familiar with their chassis.

That's the best kind of TV to have in a high crime area. If anyone is willing to go through the trouble of stealing it, they can have it.

When I was a kid they had a TG&Y in Parsons Kansas. We usually went there when we would go visit my grandparents. I think they closed that store around 1986. I have good memories of going there.
John