RCA had some really nice looking sets back in the 60's. Enjoy:

http://www.mediafire.com/?4xztomjm1iy


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Thanks again for sharing.

I did not know that RCA had sets in an Oriental sytle of cabinetry - I thought Zenith, and Stromberg-carlson in the 50's, were the only manufacturers to produce such sets.

RCA and Zenith sure produced some great looking, and performing, sets during their glory days.

Those high boy armoires are sure better looking than the crappy, boxy looking particle board and MDF vinyl clad empty shells one finds today at furniture and discount houses.

My CTC20 is called the" Rupert".I never knew that.Thanks a million,Doug!

Thanks for shareing, I love seeing these old brosures I saw your 1971 and I want the Terano combo that is sweet.

Every once in awhile, an eBay purchase turns out even better than expected.
I found one of the 25-inch RCA "consolettes" (popularly-priced consoles) from the 1967 brochure on this thread. It has been professionally restored, and is in remarkably good condition considering that it's a Chicago-area estate sale find -- originally.

The RCA "Endicott" model from RCA's 1967 line features a vaguely Scandinavian design and (sort of) swivels.

http://i1131.photobucket.com/albums/m545/DaveArland/ScreenShot2014-10-29at81737PM_zps7586affc.png (http://s1131.photobucket.com/user/DaveArland/media/ScreenShot2014-10-29at81737PM_zps7586affc.png.html)

Purchased for about $200 from a Milwaukee collector (who had a basement full of similar models), this restored beauty has a marvelous picture tube and enjoyed playing a little "Back to the Future"!

http://i1131.photobucket.com/albums/m545/DaveArland/photo_zps15852204.jpg (http://s1131.photobucket.com/user/DaveArland/media/photo_zps15852204.jpg.html)

Good movie to show on a CTC-24 or 25 set !!

And a NICE set too--though NOT my favorite cabinet style. I MUCH rather have the floor style cabinet...-

In 1967 who was actually broadcasting color other than the US? (Canada? Japan?)

Europe would start going over to colour in 67/68 so the scale of the brochure and the number of sets certainly says something about the US in 1967!

As for the RCAGuys lovely Emerson ..drool.... I imagine football looks pretty cool on it as well!!

Thanks for scanning this. I saw the 25" oriental version on Craigslist in Chicago a few months ago. .I should have nabbed it. I didn't know if it was factory or someone had put a table chassis in a custom cabinet..

So my ctc20 roundie was called the rupert.
Thanks,Doug!

i call my rca ctc25 norman.

In 1967 who was actually broadcasting color other than the US? (Canada? Japan?)

Europe would start going over to colour in 67/68 so the scale of the brochure and the number of sets certainly says something about the US in 1967!

As for the RCAGuys lovely Emerson ..drool.... I imagine football looks pretty cool on it as well!!

Mexico had electronic color television from 1963 or 1964 and Philipines from 1966.
In 1967 "R.C.A." still made color roundies?

According to the brochure in the first post, they sure did. Some brands made roundys until 1973 I've heard....The CRTs, and deflection parts were cheap and plentiful then, and cheap 'loss leader' models to get people in the doors were good for dealers, so they made them as cheap sets.

I'm curios, those big cabinet models what price would have in todays money; I guess more then 15,000 dollars. And how heavy they where?
You might be intrested in this: http://www.ebay.com/itm/Vintage-Dealer-Catalog-RCA-XL-100-Console-TV-Brochure-60s-70s-GS838-HS836-RARE-/251396833837 I wish it, but he does not delevers outside U.S.A.

Hi telecolor.. Yes indeed , unfortunatelay he does not delivers outside USA.. :( too bad.

Magnavox had Oriental (Far Eastern Contemporary) television cabinets, and stereo consoles in black lacquer, or walnut finish. The ones in the RCA Victor brochure are stunning. Thanks for sharing this with us!

I have a copy of this brochure when I went hunting for my first color set. On page 24, you can see the "Bremanger", a 19 inch consolette. The casters came off. This was my first color set purchased new in August, 1966. I was 19, one year out of high school. I have said this before, but it was an exciting time, not only because it was my first color set, but because the 1966-67 season went 100% color in prime time.

The RCA "Endicott" model from RCA's 1967 line features a vaguely Scandinavian design and (sort of) swivels.



Wonder why that name, Endicott is a small town a few miles west of Binghamton NY, a not much bigger town in the middle of nowhere in upstate New York state...

Did RCA name any sets "Scranton"? :D

I had one of those 19"ers with the metal cabinet on the back pages.....
I wanna say it was the middle one.... Not much difference in the description, and
looking at them it looks like they had different picture tubes in each....
The bottom one a little more square then the one in the middle....
I think I had the middle one..... I'd like to have one of those again....

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Wonder why that name, Endicott is a small town a few miles west of Binghamton NY, a not much bigger town in the middle of nowhere in upstate New York state...

Did RCA name any sets "Scranton"? :D

How about Hoboken, Frank Sinatra's home town.
RCA made one model, they called the "Thrifton". It was definately a BOTL model. I don't remember if it was B/W or color. :D

In that catalogue they are saying that the new sets had better picture. That was true?

I'm curios, those big cabinet models what price would have in todays money; I guess more then 15,000 dollars. And how heavy they where?
You might be intrested in this: http://www.ebay.com/itm/Vintage-Dealer-Catalog-RCA-XL-100-Console-TV-Brochure-60s-70s-GS838-HS836-RARE-/251396833837 I wish it, but he does not delevers outside U.S.A.

In the '70's a Zenith 23" Zenith was about $500 IIRC Adding remote, 25"and a solid state chassis was about $200 more. Weight probably about 125 LBS.
Mimimum wage was about $2 / hour before taxed. Thats abt 9 weeks of
work BEFORE taxes. Needless to say a big TV was a MAJOR purchise that
was carefully done even by someone that made a lot more.
Now minimum wage is $10 +- depending on state. An apx 24" TV
I think is about $120 or about 12 hrs of work before taxes.

73 Zeno:smoke:
LFOD !

The real question is whether Dorothy went with the Rupert or sprang the extra 80 bucks for the rectangular tube on the Robbins. That big X next to the Rupert looks pretty definitive!

These do appear to all be the same chassis, differing only in cabinet, speaker size, and CRT. Or did they mix them?

Either way I'd love to have a Halmstad in my living room.

In that catalogue they are saying that the new sets had better picture. That was true?

In general, sets improved in brightness from year to year as the CRT phosphors were improved.

...These do appear to all be the same chassis, differing only in cabinet, speaker size, and CRT. Or did they mix them? ...

The rectangular sets needed more complex convergence circuits, and probably some additions for pincushion correction.

About this time, RCA ran two magazine ads in succession that were identical except that the earlier one had a majority of roundies and the later one had a majority of rectangular sets.

Kinda cool noticing that someone was price shopping and went to my favorite store as a child.. Korvettes.

These do appear to all be the same chassis, differing only in cabinet, speaker size, and CRT. Or did they mix them?

All the rectangular sets below the Winslow, and maybe one or two above the Winslow, had the CTC-24. Which was a two IF stage economy chassis loaded with 6GH8's. I have a Winslow and it has a CTC-25, which was their "middle of the line" chassis. The high dollar sets had the CTC-21, which had power tuning standard.