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I hate to see and hear of this too, but I also try to look to the positive (tough to do in this case)... But the positive here is that now all the sets which are in collections that are the same as those lost in that house, are just a tad more rare.
Been there, done that. Several times. Around Los Angeles, they tear down houses all the time for no reason other than the style is old, house is small and the lot is worth $750,000. About 10 years ago, a real estate agent told me a tale of a house in a poor area which he had sold to a developer. He said it had been owned by a TV man, and he was a packrat. He said he couldn't even get in the house to see it. It was sold to a developer who bulldozed it contents and all. As he was telling me the story, he pointed to my CTC-5, my various 7 and 10 inch postwar B&W sets, and identified them as what he had seen peeking in the windows.
As a lover of old TVs, I lost a lot of sleep over that story. But then as I mentioned earlier in this post in the positive side, if ALL the vintage TVs had been saved from all perils, NONE would be rare, NONE would be of any interest to any of us, most likely, and this whole website would not be here.
Charles
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