Wow; I wish we still had the monthly "bulky item trash day" in Los Angeles... All through the 70s, they would have a scheduled day where each neighborhood could put out large items for the trash. I was too young to drive, but would ride my bike around our neighborhood and see what I could get. It was a middle class World War II retired middle income neighborhood, so most had nice TVs from the beginning and would upgrade and discard the old. I found plenty of 60s color sets, B&W 50s consoles, all types. I even found a few small B&W round tube sets. But with the left-wing environmentalist lawsuit-happy feel-good California government (Post-Gov. Reagan), it is now an arrestable crime to leave a TV in the trash (or car tires, paint, or most anything). So the way they do it now is that they hold recycle drives at designated locations a few times a year, and highly-paid men in white plastic suits come out to your car and "safely" remove the TV and send it to a very costly hazardous waste dump out someplace in the Mojave. It is also a crime to pick anything out of the dump, or trash cans/bins on public property if a "civil criminal" has put one there.
I'd go further but this isn't the politics forum...
But if I see a TRK-12 in the trash, I will still pick it up. But I'll have to put it on eBay right away to pay the bail and criminal defense. Then the rest of the profit can go to pay the fines for possession of and movement of a hazardous material in the State of California.
I am always envious of Texans... They all are polite to eachother, and now to find out that you can still rescue TVs from the recycler! Wow! Next time I move, it's Texas or Bust!
Charles