Going to be getting an old TV, anyone want parts?

[Steve D.]

Originally Posted by kx250rider

I was lucky and was allowed to bring TVs home when I was 9 & 10, and I am glad to see that there are others up & coming to this hobby. I was always the youngest one to show up at the SCARS swapmeet in Burbank on a moped in the early 80s, and now just about none of those original SCARS (Southern Cal Antique Radio Society) members are still there. In fact, just about every TV collector I knew when I first started in the mid-late 70s is no longer among us. Ken Herbruck, Gary Hough, Tim Passadore, Kent Warner, etc etc.

So I welcome all young collectors!!!!!!!!!

Charles

Phew,

Just relieved to see my name wasn't on Charles' list.

-Steve D.

[kx250rider]

Originally Posted by Steve D.

Phew,

Just relieved to see my name wasn't on Charles' list.

-Steve D.

You're one of the younger late-comers... I didn't meet you 'til way more recently; like '83

Charles

[Captain Video]

I am VERY lucky on this subject, I guess. I live in a small apartment on the back of my parents house, and it is almost crowded of vintage stuff. Were I still living with my parents, I doubt I would be having peace with my collection. Even so, from time to time they complain that I am putting to much stuff there ... I heve to tell them that since I am the one who lives there, it is just my problem.

Hehe, it's not just the vintage stuff, which by itself is huge ( old TVs and phono-combos are big ) but also all my movie memorabilia: lots of Star Wars model kits, posters, action figures, magazines, CDs, DVDs, etc,etc... I even appeared in a newspaper article in 1999, when "Episode I" came out, with my collection...paraphrasing the late James Brown - "I'm nerd and I am proud!"

I am even more lucky that I have a VERY comprehensive wife. She says that I can keep buying as much old stuff as I want, as long as it don't give her any trouble. She also does like, in some way, the things from the past, because she really likes to listen to old LP records, she's not a big CD fan, she is always buying old records on the used book shops where they are sold. She always ask me when I will restore my 1962 Philips radio-phono.

So much the better. If I had a wife who wanted me to choose - "me or your collection" - I would tell her to pack her things...