Ugliest Vintage TV found
 

OK--I think I've found THE ugliest vintage TV.

Not only is it strange, it's disproportionate, the screen looks all wrong at the bottom of such a large TV, you'd need to sit on the floor to enjoy a head-on view, and..hey it's just all wrong!

I've bought and sold ugly sets in the past...but I'm sure this is about the worse set I've seen....boy I wish I was close enough to buy it!


http://cgi.ebay.com/ws/eBayISAPI.dll...m=270216636829

Says it's a 19" color set. Looks like earlier B&W cabinet styles to me. :scratch2:

That's a mid 50's General Electric 21 inch B&W, one of the stranger cabinets ever made. At the shop I worked for we used the cabinet of one for a desk. That looks like a nice one but alas too far away and no room...

At least it has storm shutters to cover up the mess when not in use. :D

But I regard with suspicion any set that has the knobs above the tube like that, as it usually bodes a vertical chassis design, where the chassis surrounds the tube neck. Others may differ on this, but my findings were that corner-cutting in design technique (Muntzing) was the hallmark of that genre of chassis. Not always the case (Zenith had some portables with vertical chassis that were good sets), but most vertical-chassis sets I'd encountered I was tempted to alter and improve such as IF stage design, power supply design and the like....

As for the "head down" viewing of such a low screen bear in mind the advantage of reduced glare from windows and lamps in the room with a low-set screen. Also remember that many console sets of earlier vintage actually had the tube aiming slightly downward for that reason.

I don't think its color, either, but Good Gawd Amighty, they sure went to a LOT of trouble to make it that Fugly !!

Hey....the cabinet looks nice!

:puke:

The seller apparently doesn't know beans from apple butter about early television. Maybe some of you have seen that early-style-rectangular format as a polychrome CRT, but I myself have not been so "lucky" as to do so. By the time the color set evolved from the early "roundie" most b&w sets went to the more modern rectangular tube, with the color sets following suit a bit later.... I welcome different opinions on this.... :scratch2:

I dunno; I like the looks. I can see it in the home of an older couple, kids gown up. Furnishings from decades of purchases as they grew together towards a little comfortable life of him coming home from work, she in the kitchen preparing dinner. He changes to his evening clothes, sits in his Lazy Boy and reads the evening edition of the paper to catch up on the news that happened after the morning edition was published. He can smell the cooking. It is 6 o'clock and he turns on the news. The times are good. Dinah Shore is singing the praises of the new Chevrolet.

Dinner is over. Dishes done, he retires to the chair with a good cigar and maybe a little libation and she sits next to him with her knitting, a paid of little booties for their forthcoming 1st grandchild. On the tele, they watch as Jack Benny and Rochester prove Jack is not your average fool.

I dont normally buy sets without a round crt, however this is in my town so I will make an exception for this INCREDIBLY UGLY SET!

Wish me luck!

See you at the ETF convention for the premier of my new movie "The Craft of Picture Tube Rebuilding...A Pilgrimage to HawkEye Picture Tube Mfg."

Bob G.

NO!!!!! I think this one is actually even UGLIER!!!!!

http://sanantonio.craigslist.org/ele/596527613.html

Bof G.

Kinda reminds me of the early Setchell-Carlson gear.... :scratch2:

Gad, those are two UGLY TVs! Must be fraternal twins.

Here is what is possibly the ugliest color TV made (assuming the GE in this thread is actually a B&W set). The Westinghouse 15" set. And like the GE, looks better with the doors closed!

Damn. Those be some fugly-ass tee-vee sets!

Eh, I've seen uglier, though admittedly, not by much...

Picture a TV where the original cabinet was gone, and in its place was a roughly built cabinet made from unfinished plywood and wooden milk crates.

Imagine having to be careful around it so as not to get splinters...

Well, I can't say much. We had a late 50's color Admiral in a shiny black metal cabinet with gold peg legs and gold accents. :puke: