Estate Sale Finds In 2011!

[zenith2134]

Eyyy,,,, that's some haul!

The small Panasonic looks cool, i'd keep it!

And great,great score on the Chromacolor. Love those style

[drh4683]

This was a good weekend, picked this one up on Saturday in Westchester at 10354 Kipling Ave. It's a '68 model with the CTC30, motor drive UHF and VHF tuner, model GJ773L. Still in the living room hooked up and it actually works and is a low hour set. Usually don't find old sets like this in an Apartment. There were no other TV's in the house so I take it the lady just never watched TV.

[Findm-Keepm]

Originally Posted by drh4683

This was a good weekend, picked this one up on Saturday in Westchester at 10354 Kipling Ave. It's a '68 model with the CTC30, motor drive UHF and VHF tuner, model GJ773L.

Another RCA with the model tag still attached......what does that make.... TWO? Great find, Doug!


Cheeers,

[drh4683]

Picked up a 1966 Panasonic console color TV at a sale in Chicago at 3747 W. Eastwood Ave on Thursday. There was also a 1971 Panasonic table model TV on the cart at the same estate sale (which was actually an apartment). The '71 was a nice set, has a metal back cover. Mark was at the sale too, but we worked out a good deal that we were both happy with and both TV's got saved.
The '66 console set actually works which I didn't really expect. I'll have to do a little write up on this one as a seperate thread as its a rather unique TV. The '71 is also an unusual TV. I found interesting that this family owned all Panasonic TV's. Even more unusual that these TV's survived all these years being in an apartment. Most people that live in apartments usually don't keep old stuff like this around in their living space their whole life. They are both very special sets.

Today I went to an estate sale in Evergreen Park at 3149 W. 102nd St. In the livingroom was a mint 1969 Zenith french provincial console priced at $30.00. Its a 16Z8C50 chassis set, still plugged in, wired to the outdoor antenna and of course still working. I'm still blown away to find TV's like this survive in someone living room for over 40 years virtually untouched. The set is near mint and its another one of those TV's that never got used.

Another sale in Oak Park, at 1221 Edmer Ave. It happened yet again, I walk into the house and here in the living room sits a 1972 Zenith danish modern console with the bonus of space command 600... This is a really neat set, it has the 25CC50 chassis and another one that still plugged in, wired up to the antenna and working fine. Ironically I went to this sale to find something else, I just happened to stumble across this set which was very nice surprise.

[drh4683]

The remaining photos...

[DaveWM]

Its just stunning how many great sets are in the Chicago area, that Panasonic is sweet.

[Jeffhs]

Doug, what were they getting on the TV connected to an antenna? I thought all analog TV was to have disappeared by now, unless the Chicago area still has one or more NTSC analog stations. The networks all went digital and HD some time ago, so any remaining analog stations would almost have to be independents.