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old_tv_nut · #61 12-02-2009, 07:55 PM

Recent photos from Dracut MA, posted on the world's fair web site...

Someone in another thread here estimated the block RCA without Victor debuted in 1969. Can anyone verify that?

Also, any idea of the date of the large rainbow background RCA Victor sign?

bgadow · #62 12-02-2009, 10:10 PM

I've never seen that rainbow sign before-would have to be from the sixties if not older. The newer sign seems pretty common. There is an old barn not far from here that the owner has plastered with signs, including 2 of those.

I think 1969 is accurate for the logo change, though it was gradual. It apparently debuted on the RCA 2000, so whenever that was released, there is your answer. Seems to have taken them awhile to completely convert everything. I have seen numerous sets with either the "meatball" logo on the front and new logo on a paper tag, or vice versa. Also NOS tubes with a different logo than their box, things like that. For the most part, though, the important stuff had been changed by 1970.

old_tv_nut · #63 12-03-2009, 12:29 PM

By the way, RCA archrival Peter Goldmark (CBS) had a dog of the same breed as Nipper, and took pleasure in announcing that he "owned the RCA dog."

Dan Starnes · #64 02-27-2010, 04:18 PM

Picked up this sign today, Brashears TV Radio Service that was in Hannibal MO till last year. I bought it from the shop owner, double sided lit sign. Think I will hang it in my garage. Cell phone pic of it in the back of my pickup.

Dan Starnes · #65 07-02-2010, 04:53 PM

Here is a shop in Litchfield IL. Downtown area, inside shots are front area and side door where the repair shop was. What a mess.

Hemingray · #66 07-04-2010, 06:21 PM

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Originally Posted by truetone36

The only shop still in my area is Evans TV in Caldwell, AR. I know the owner, Bernard Evans. He still stays busy as he's the only repairman in business for miles around. He has a Zenith Space Command 400 b/w set that works in his back room, and some radios as well as a shed full of NOS parts, I've heard there's a bunch of old sets in there, but I haven't got to look in there yet. I'm working on it, though

If you're up for the drive, there's another shop in the downtown Yellville area (on the west side of Mt. Home). He's still in business to this day, and also sells some stuff.