R. Kelly "When a woman loves", at 2:10

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_W0K_EkDoHk

Airline?

Very likely a 1948 Sentinel 400TV portable. A VERY common vintage TV.
http://www.civilization.ca/cmc/exhibitions/hist/tv/images/tvsd_12b.gif

Sentinel made an Airline version for Monty Wards that is very, very similar. They apparently worked good in the bathroom, as per my avitar.

My dad always called them "Monkey" Ward's

Out of cuiosity, why were they called "Monty Wards" or "Monkey Wards"????

Carl

just "Slang talk" man:yes::D

Yikes, asking for electrical trouble with that TV in the bathroom!

Just nicknames, just people trying to be funny. It's the same as people today calling Walmart "Wally World," or pronouncing Target like it was French. I remember a lot of people just called them Wards.

Here is the photo full sized. The extension cords on the floor make things convenient. You don't want to have to get out of the tub to plug something in. You might miss Uncle Miltie!

In graduate school, my TV was a "Seventeener" type portable. At the end of a long day, I often relaxed while taking a bath and watching shows like "The Rockford Files." The TV sat on a long board propped across the tub. Not a very safe arrangement, but I lived to tell the tale.

Phil Nelson

In graduate school, my TV was a "Seventeener" type portable. At the end of a long day, I often relaxed while taking a bath and watching shows like "The Rockford Files." The TV sat on a long board propped across the tub. Not a very safe arrangement, but I lived to tell the tale.

Phil Nelson

Geez Phil, you could have ruined that set if it fell in the tub! :D

Yeah, and it might have splashed soap in yer eyes... :)

SR

My dad always called them "Monkey" Ward's

Ever-buddy I met in Texas said "Monkey Ward" IIRC
example "Im fixin' tagoda Monkey Ward, j'need anything" :yes:

Just nicknames, just people trying to be funny. It's the same as people today calling Walmart "Wally World," or pronouncing Target like it was French. I remember a lot of people just called them Wards.

Instead of saying "Target", some around the D.C. area call it the capital city of a well-known country in the middle east, which has the same first letter and the same number of letters!

Tehran?

Geez Phil, you could have ruined that set if it fell in the tub! :D
Yeah. One electrocution can ruin your whole day. Plus, you might not have found out if Sergeant Becker got Rockford out of trouble with the police department.

I have watched a 1969 Sony black and white portable transistor in the tub. At my grandparents house as a kid.