Estate Sale Finds In 2006!

[fujifrontier]

Originally Posted by Bobby Brady

That's a rather grim outlook.

its grim but its true. see my comment on jstouts on why.

and I agree with jstout about the estate companies not allowing family to attend. most of the people who attend estate sales where I live are ghetto and want nothing more than a trinket they think they can sell for $5000 on ePay. they root irreverantly through peoples things and scatter stuff everywhere throughout the house. It may sound weird but I like to go to these places, these places where in most instances people have spent 30-40 years, and reflect.... try and pick up some of the energy that rubbed off from them in the place they called home. I will walk through their rooms, rooms where they cried, rooms where they laughed, rooms where memories were made. I'll look at their pictures and the things they had, and try to imagine the people that lived there.

One estate sale I found a workroom with a bunch of disassembled ham radio chassis; in a box were a bunch of slide trays and pictures that were thrown and disorganised. It was an old couple's house, and there was a picture of the old lady at the barbecue, in the 60s. A kodachrome moment; she looked so happy, the sun was golden and everything looked right with the world. The stone barbecue was new, probably built by her husband. As I walked out of the garage I saw the barbecue, and it looked like i was standing in exactly the same place where her husband took the picture. The barbecue was crumbling and the grass was dying, but in my head I could reassemble every detail, and imagine the scene behind me, probably with family laughing and having a good time, with a portable 45 player scratching in the background.

What makes me sad is in a lot of these pictures you see pride; pride in home and posessions. These are people that took pictures with their new TV when it arrived, these are people that took pictures of the new Olds, and took two, "in case one doesn't come out." Never again will people like that grace our planet, never again will buying a car/house/TV be associated with such pride. So yes, I can understand why people at estate sales are bitches.

[drh4683]

This is it, the final TV find for 2006. It's a rare one, a 25" zenith chromacolor II table set in the steel cabinet. Picked it up today at 355 W. Harrison St. Lombard, IL for $10.00. The set was in the front room beneath a card table. Didn't see any kind of stand for it. It still works too with strong clear picture. Uses the 25FC45 chassis. Its a rather rare set, as it was part of Willowbrook high school. (AV department). The original owner worked at the high school as a janitor as I saw his "District 88" uniforms throughout the basement. I did find a zenith 3A3 hv rect. dated 1965 in the basement, so there must have been a zenith color set somewhere at one time but couldn't find it.

Problem with this set, broken off volume slider. Anyone have one they'd like to sell?

It was a successful year for vintage TV finds. Hopefully the trend continues for "Estate sale finds in 2007".

[3Guncolor]

Nice set.. Looks like it even has had the "four lead cap" changed.

[rcaman]

man i fixed a bunch of those sets. far cry from thr zeniths now pure junk. seems like you couldnt wear some of those zeniths out. i sold rca and those were great sets also but not anymore the only thing the rca,s have going for them they still have fine crt,s. chassis are pure crap. steve