'74 Truetone (Wells-Gardner) hybrid console

[radiotvnut]

Well, after all these years, I finally got the TV that started it all. I think I mentioned in another post that my old babysitter had a Zenith roundie that I used to turn all the knobs on. There's actually a picture here somewhere of me standing in front of a Zenith roundie, so there was one in their house at some point. But, the TV that was their family set that I played with was actually this '74 Truetone (model WEG2497A-47). After seeing the set, it brings back memories. I guess I was just wishing for the roundie! I asked them if they had any more old TV's and they said this one was it and the only reason they kept it was to give it to me one day. It's been sitting in their storage building unsued for at least 20 years. I'm having a run at finding TV's with no knobs because these are missing just like on the Zenith I recently found. This set is totally dead and I have not made an effort to troubleshoot it yet. I think a good clean up will be the next order of business. The red and blue guns were almost dead but rejuvenation brought them back. This set is one of the few tube type sets that I've found with a modular chassis. I think '74 was also the last year for Wells-Gardner tube sets. I'm sure someone here has memories (probably bad) of these Wells-Gardner built sets.