The first customers of color TV

[kx250rider]

Here is a story that my Aunt loved to tell: In appx 1956, the family TV was a Westinghouse B&W 21" that my mother had bought in '54. Just for the record, this was all before my time. I'm old enough as it is without making myself sound older, LOL...

The Westinghouse evidently had a problem that the TV repairman (Mr. Cohn of B.C. Cohn TV in Los Angeles) said he had to take the TV to the shop to fix. So Mr. Cohn offered a loaner to the family at no cost. My Grandma accepted, and that afternoon there came a big (unknown) color TV to the house! The scheme was that Mr. Cohn would allow my family to enjoy the color set for a week, then they were supposed to like it enough to buy it. Well, I guess it was nice but my Grandma was a terrible tinkerer. The family sat down to see a program, and Grandma managed to turn every control on that TV to render it hopelessly awry. So the next day, she called Mr. Cohn and told him the TV was "too much bother", and asked him to come get it. He did, and that was the last of color TV in the Burdick household until 1970 when my mother sneaked to Fedco and bought a Hitachi 12" solid state portable color set for her room.

Then the next color TV to enter our home was a Packard-Bell 21CT7 21" roundie that I bought from a guy in the late 70s after I started fooling with TVs. By then, Grandma was no longer with us and the Packard-Bell's many pots remained in good order (God rest Grandma's soul)

Charles