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I know that set well, it was our first color set. My parents bought
it in the summer of 1975 for their 25th wedding anniversary, it
replaced a 1956 Zenith B/W. The one my parents had was
identical except the wood was darker and the mod base
didn't have casters. It was called the Montmartre, I still
have the brochure somewhere. I remember it cost 749.00, marked down from 899.00 because it was last years model.
My parents had it until 1989, no repairs, until the power
supply caps started to go. it was going to cost around 200.00to fix it, so sadly they traded it in on a new Zenith. That old set had
a superb picture, one of the best i have ever seen. The '89
Zenith (which they still have) picture could not campare to it,
looked putrid by comparison.
It was one heavy sucker, I remember being home from college
in the 70's and having to help put down a new rug in the
family room where the set was. You could barely lift one end
of it!
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