Had one sans bookshelf given to me when I was ~10. The entire chassis is mounted at the top (up side up) and on a slight incline. GE TVs of the 50s don't get credit for being the workhorses they truly were; that TV was 20 years old and worked like new. The indian-giver across the street neighbors said after many months that their son needed a TV "temporarily" and I never saw it again.