huge tv/tv parts find!!!!!!!!!!!! A nice ending to 2003

[bgadow]

And to think this was close to becoming landfill. Emerson was owned at that time by National Union, the old tube company. Seems like a safe bet that DuMont was owned by them too at that time. Read somewhere that Emerson color sets were made by Admiral but not sure of any details. Would be interesting to know just why they saved those sets-that was a lot of money to just leave them sitting there like that. I recall a Packard Bell roundie on ebay a few years ago that was NOS; given the demand for color tv sets in the 60s how could one go unsold?

Again, a great find!

[andy]

Who knows what happened. This reminds me of the time I was helping someone clean out the storage space for an old computer store. They had about 6 unopened 386 laptops. This was in roughly 2000, so they were a good 8 years old then (8 computer years is like 35 TV years, lol). They went out of business a couple of years later...

Like 386 laptops, all tube color TVs may have been hard to sell after a few years without taking a big loss.

Holy time warp, Batman! Neat stuff, especially the display tags and such. I can remember a Zenith that looked a lot like that being delivered to my parents' house right around 1970. I can even remember the TV shop name - Adsen's TV Sales & Service. That was back in the "The Quality Goes In Before the Name Goes On" days. I think there's a pawn shop in Adsen's old location.

[Steve D.]

Amazing find! That virgin Packard Bell roundie, I believe belongs to AK member Steve Hoffman. As of this date it is still a maiden.