Old photos of TV's

[Eric H]

I was going through the family photo box and found this old picture of my Grammas TV circa 1955:






OK, I lied, this is my Philco circa 2002 and I Photoshopped it to look like an old photo :D

[Eric H]

I found this picture on eBay, note the clock on top!
Anyone know what make the TV is?

[Eric H]

Here's another eBay photo, a nice clear screen shot of?? maybe a game show? perhaps a relative snapped the photo as a memento in the pre-VCR age:)

It's dark but the shape of the screen is easy to identify as an RCA Deluxe portable.

[Eric H]

Forgot about this one, another I nicked off of eBay

[Steve McVoy]

This is a picture of the first long distance relay of TV. The signal originated in New York City, was relayed by the GE station in Schenactady, and was picked up at a weather station on Whiteface Mountain near Lake Placid, NY. The set is a GE HM-171 5 inch (no RF amplifier, so the noise figure was horrible).

You can see more pictures at:

http://www.tvhistory.tv/1940%20QF.htm

[Celt]

I like those old Golden Hour clocks on top of the TV's! I refurbished several of those back when I was a watchmaker in a jewelry store.

[Captain Video]

This photo was taken in September or October of 1950, during the very first days of regular TV broadcasting here in Brazil. Daily transmissions began on September, 18.

[Captain Video]

That one was taken in 1952 or 1953. The clown in the picture hosted a popular kids show in one of the three TV stations we had in Brazil at that time.

[Marlin Mackley]

Hey guys, lookie what I found in my family archives (meaning junk box).
It is me at about a year and a half of age in front of the Christmas tree, which is in front of our 1949 Transview 12" tv. I have a modern shot of that set on my web site. http://home.earthlink.net/~marlinmackley and click on the television collection.
Marlinhttp://home.earthlink.net/~marlinmackley/marli001.jpg

[Charlie]

Here is me and our old Zenith... Christmas 1971. Marlin, looks like you and I both got bikes for Christmas... although it appears that your photo was taken way before '71! :D

[Marlin Mackley]

Just a little. Probably Christmas 1952. I was about 18 months.

[Eric H]

Great pictures guys!

Marlin, is that the "Triumph" on your page? How cool that you still have your original TV!

Capt Video, that is the scariest looking clown ever :eek:
He would give kids nightmares I think :D

Eric

[Marlin Mackley]

Eric, yup, same set. Been holdin' onto that thing for 45 years! Dad wanted to pitch it when the new 58 B&W arrived.
Marlin

[Charlie]

Here is a photo on Ebay with a cool lookin RCA. Not sure of model number, but I'm sure you guys with the very early sets will know it. Very good photo of the set.

http://cgi.aol.ebay.com/ws/eBayISAPI.dll?ViewItem&item=2160332105&category=3638

[Rob]

Originally posted by Charlie
Here is a photo on Ebay with a cool lookin RCA. Not sure of model number, but I'm sure you guys with the very early sets will know it. Very good photo of the set.

http://cgi.aol.ebay.com/ws/eBayISAPI.dll?ViewItem&item=2160332105&category=3638

Eric,

That great looking 12" set is a 9TC247. I have the same model with doors known as 9TC249. The same chassis was used in a 9TC245 which I also have. Here is a shot of my 9TC245.

Rob

[Charlie]

Would be neat if the old photo had been taken while the set was turned on! :cool:

Charlie (not Eric) :p:

[Eric H]

Great picture, they are looking at the set like it is something new to them.

Look at the pictures on top of the set, I swear the one on the left looks like a guy with a mustache in a long blond wig :D

Eric

[Eric H]

This one has a picture on the screen, kinda hard to make out though.

http://cgi.ebay.com/ws/eBayISAPI.dll?ViewItem&item=3208869708&category=48

[Marlin Mackley]

Originally posted by Charlie
Here is a photo on Ebay with a cool lookin RCA. Not sure of model number, but I'm sure you guys with the very early sets will know it. Very good photo of the set.

http://cgi.aol.ebay.com/ws/eBayISAPI.dll?ViewItem&item=2160332105&category=3638
Charlie, I have almost the exact same set, only dif is the grill. Says it is a TC-125.
Marlin http://home.earthlink.net/~marlinmackley/tc125.JPG

[Eric H]

I found this Birthday card that uses an actual vintage photo of a woman and her TV set.

Looks like a Motorola?

[Marlin Mackley]

Eric:
I have a blond Moto that looks very close to it except it has their normal two knob design. I took a quick look around at what sets I can get to and did not find that knob layout on any of them, except the 4 knob Admirals. I looked in the 1992 book, and nothing there either. It MIGHT be the same Admiral chassis as the 24A12, 20X136 and such, can't tell if it is larger that a 12" or not. Cool card though! Gives me a idea for making new ones for Christmas and such.
Marlin

[Eric H]

http://cgi.ebay.com/ws/eBayISAPI.dll?ViewItem&item=3235086088&category=48

[Marlin Mackley]

Anybody besides me think these photos are new and staged? And I think the TV is a Crosley, as I have the round crt sister. Sorry no photo available as it is packed away.
Marlin

[Rob]

Marlin,

Do you think the ebay photo is staged because the kids are watching a TV that isn't on? :) If it was staged the seller went to a lot of trouble for $3.33, assuming it sells. I couldn't see anything that looked out of place in that photo. I think it could be real.


I've attached it here. What do others think????

Rob

[Charlie]

I think the flash probably washed out the picture on the CRT. Seems that the entire photo is kinda bright... as if the flash was a bit too much for that particular shot. Back then, they didn't exactly have electronic flashes that could be adjusted. Many cameras today can have the flash "turned down". Most of us here at AK probably take SEVERAL pictures of our sets operating and then choose one to post on AK. I usually find that I have to turn the flash OFF or on LOW to get a decent shot.

As far as the set in the picture, I doubt it is the "first Philco" as the seller says in the description. I think Marlin is right... it looks more like a Crosley.

Considering how expensive TV was years ago, you'd think those folks would have put it on something more fitting. Notice how much of the TV cabinet hangs over the sides. Also, would be neat to know what those kids were watching... Howdy Doody perhaps? Damn flash bulb!

[captainmoody]

Looks like a den or bedroom, Maybe a playroom for the kids, See the 78 record player behind the girl? Too small for a family room.
Looks like the tv has had some use, It has some smudging or wear around the knobs, So we know it is not brand new.
Maybe it was sent to this room as a second set after 2 or 3 years of use?
People were buying larger screen sets by the mid fifties, Looks like they did that and put this one in that room.

[classicradios]

Here's a good photo.
Elvis receiving a TV from RCA in 1960. Anyone recognize the model TV?
Jim

[Eric H]

I saw that set when I visited Graceland.
I bet Elvis was bummed that RCA gave him a B&W set, they could easily afford Color :D

Originally posted by classicradios
Here's a good photo.
Elvis receiving a TV from RCA in 1960. Anyone recognize the model TV?
Jim

[captainmoody]

I have the same model set, It is a 24" b/w combo from 1960.
Doug gave me that one last summer, I replaced the crt (ruined by a brightner) with a nos one and it works great, Especially the stereo.

[wa2ise]

To the left of the Xmas tree (1951) in the living room is a Philco B&W TV set 50T1503 IIRC. This was at my grandma's house. This TV set was sold to a collector about ten years ago, presumidly it's been restored and in use somewhere.

[drh4683]

Heres the "elvis" set

[Rob]

If Moses Znaimer still cared about his TV Museum MAYBE he would give you $100,000.00 for that set (yeah right) since it is way bigger than the Marilyn Monroe B&W portable set he paid something like $35,000.00 for. Timing is EVERYTHING.:D

[Celt]

Here is an actual picture of me @ 1 1/2 years of age. I think the set you see was a Hallicrafters. I seem to remember that it gave off a tremendous amount of radiation and the image would sometimes leave the screen and come out into the room! (The record player on top was an RCA Victor 45 changer.)

[drh4683]

Im not really sharp on identifiying ctc-4's-7's. My grandfather worked for the chicago tribune, and over the years he accumulated many slides on various products and statistics. this is my favorite, being tv related. Judging by the sets in the photo and the 3 year thing, this slide is probably from around 1958

[drh4683]

Here is my family tv photo, its actually my dad with his lionel train set up in the living room. Dad says this set was replaced with their first color TV in 1966, which was a motorola console. In this picture, its a 1954 zenith. I actually had one that I found on the curb years back. It was ruined from mold and mildew. For whatever reason, I still took it home and fixed it up. It was still far to gone to save, it worked though!

This picture dates to June 1963.

[Eric H]

I thought the set to their left was the "Wingate" but the line on the door is different.




Originally posted by drh4683
Im not really sharp on identifiying ctc-4's-7's. My grandfather worked for the chicago tribune, and over the years he accumulated many slides on various products and statistics. this is my favorite, being tv related.

[veg-o-matic]

This was the "picture of the day" at classicappliances.com.
Bob

[classicradios]

Great photo!
Those Philco TV sets look like the 1950 models.
Jim

[Marlin Mackley]

Wow Bob, what a great photo! I have every set in the shot, would be fun to replicate the scene. Now lets see if I can find one of those Fridges....
:D :D
Marlin

[veg-o-matic]

I have some commercials for the '50 Philco TVs featuring that second one from the left. It has some internal antenna that's rotated with a knob on the front.

Marlin: go visit classicappliances.com. They are to vintage appliances what we are to vintage electronics. Make sure you check out unimatic's collection (he's a member here, too.) Quite an impressive selection of washing machines!
Bob

[Marlin Mackley]

Bob I checked it out. WOW!! A pink washer! I think I am in love...:lmao:

[Marlin Mackley]

Awwright...now they a'done it! They have VIDEOS of clothes washers running!!! Somebody in this world is more nuts than TV collectors!
"Hey Bob, lets do a Superbowl.. I mean a washing machine video party!!:yes: :screwy: :lurk: :rockon: :jawdrop: :beerchug:
Marlin

[veg-o-matic]

Hello. My name is Bob and I'm beyond help.

Used to be that I figured I was the only oddball in the world who appreciated vintage pink, front-loading washers and color TV sets with round screens.

Now, thanks to these two sites, I find I'm not the only one. And I'm grateful.
:banana:
I've got my roundie, which I enjoy tremendously. I doubt that I'll ever get the pink Westinghouse, but I know for a fact that there's a new front-loading washer in my future.

Come to think of it, isn't that the same thing as a roundie color TV? I could watch them both for hours, mesmerized. 'Course the Zenith has a larger choice of channels. On the other hand, there's no cable channel that'll let you see your underwear getting friendly with the towels...:D

[Celt]

I can see it now...for a slight fee on your monthly cable bill, you can view THE LAUNDRY CHANNEL which features agitation, spinning and enough suds for the entire family! :D

[Carmine]

I believe this is the fridge you need for your photo-op. It's in my grandparent's basement. The script on the bottom says "advanced design".

BTW, I just signed a purchase agreement on an original owner house from 1955. I'll post some photos in the off-topic section soon as I close. You'll love them...

I do intend to remodel the house, but sleep sound in the knowledge that unlike other re-habbers, the old stuff won't end up in the dumpster.

[heathkit tv]

Originally posted by veg-o-matic
Come to think of it, isn't that the same thing as a roundie color TV? I could watch them both for hours, mesmerized. 'Course the Zenith has a larger choice of channels. On the other hand, there's no cable channel that'll let you see your underwear getting friendly with the towels...:D

Can you imagine coming home drunk and deciding to do some laundry and then mistakenly trying to stuff clothes into the TV?

Anthony

[Eric H]

Fantastic!!!

I noticed the center set is showing a program, you can just make it out.


Originally posted by veg-o-matic
This was the "picture of the day" at classicappliances.com.
Bob

[domfjbrown]

Originally posted by CELT
I can see it now...for a slight fee on your monthly cable bill, you can view THE LAUNDRY CHANNEL which features agitation, spinning and enough suds for the entire family! :D

It'd be better than most of the rubbish on British TV... Plus I can only get 4 channels (not even Channel 5) as we can't have satellite dishes installed and there's no cable in our street. On top of that there's no "Freeview" digital TV either, so seeing clothes going round would be more fulfilling than the nth reality TV programme and boring house remodelling programme.

I heard a rumour that somewhere there's a fishtank channel where you can, err, watch fish all day. Anyone know if this is true?

[wa2ise]

It'd be better than most of the rubbish on British TV... Plus I can only get 4 channels (not even Channel 5) as we can't have satellite dishes installed and there's no cable in our street. On top of that there's no "Freeview" digital TV

And I thought that TV in Europe was supposed to be better than American TV. Do you still have to pay a TV tax there? Something about having to have a license just to receive TV, much less transmit it.

[Unimatic1140]

Hey guys, I’m glad you enjoyed yesterday’s Picture of the Day. That is a new picture that I just scanned over the weekend from a 1951 Calendar and added to the POD library. I have 90 Picture-of-the–Days saved on the server at my web site (www.classicappliances.com) and I wrote a program to change the POD everyday at 1:00am central time. I was thinking it would be fun to add a second Picture of the Day button to Classic Appliances dedicated to Vintage Television Sets but I don’t quite have enough pictures and ads to scan as of yet, but I’m getting there.

By the way, if anyone has vintage ”television set” commercials that they can copy and send to me, I can digitize them and add them to our web sites video library so everyone here can download and enjoy them.

Yes, we have do have lots of videos of antique automatic washers running, at first glance that might seem truly “bananas”, but most of these early automatic washers are as rare or even rarer than the CT100. Each brand of washer does its washing process in a very different manner from the next brand, unlike modern washing machines that now all wash in same boring way, so it’s important show how the machine actually worked. In the early days there was a lot of creative thinking going on by the appliance manufacturers, but today it’s generally all the same, just like TV’s now for the most part all come in a black plastic box. Finally in the past few years, appliances as well as TVs seem to be going through a technological advancement after 20 or so years of very little progress.

[bgadow]

I've ventured over to the classicappliances site a few times after hearing about it on "that home site". Too bad I don't need more things to collect! Have to do with some mixmasters & vacuum cleaners.

One old tv commercial sticks in my head. It was featured on a PBS show outlining the decline of the US electronics industry & Japan's rise. Lots of talk about RCA, with the "good days" illustrated by a neat ad for RCA color tv-a cartoon character singing "her hair is red, her eyes are blue...". I can still hear that little guy singing in my head, though I've only heard him once, over 10 years ago!

[classicradios]

Not really a TV photo but a monitor, Still interesting though.
I grabbed these shots off a DVD 1961 Broadcast of Nat King Cole.
At the end of the last song the camera pans around 360 degrees and shows the audience and B/W monitors.
Jim

[Eric H]

From eBay

[domfjbrown]

Originally posted by wa2ise
And I thought that TV in Europe was supposed to be better than American TV. Do you still have to pay a TV tax there? Something about having to have a license just to receive TV, much less transmit it.

Yep - £98 last year IIRC for a service covering digital TV - a service I can't get. You're supposed to be able to get a discount if in "poor reception areas" but I don't. I don't see why I should fund digital TV if I can't receive it. Grrrr. Sorry - whine over. Oh - at least registered blind people get a half price licence now - none of that patronising 50p off any more.

I'd not mind so much, but ITV/CH4 are getting EXACTLY like US TV - not so much the programming, as the frequency of the ads and the fact that even WITH the ads, every programme is sponsored by something.

I actually preferred US TV when I was there for a fortnight in 1992 (I was 16) - for one thing, you lot had McGiver (sp?) episodes waaaaaay in advance of the UK. But those damn TV ads...

Mind you, in the late 80s here in the UK, I actually generally preferred the adverts to the programmes on ITV! He he...

Why oh why do they insist on making the adverts about 100dB louder than the programmes though? I might well check out the phenomenon on the level meters on my video at some point to see just HOW much louder they are... I hate that!

[bolly]

I have a Marconi Stereo Console that looks almost identical to the Elvis console TV. Save the TV of course, and the extra trim at the bottom. Was this console style a popular design?

Greg

[captainmoody]

In North Carolina where my family is from, Thomasville is a very big furniture producing town.
I used to service cnc equipment for several of the big furniture makers, Drexel-Heritage for one.
When I asked about tv cabinets one of the workers there told me they made them for several tv manufacturers, Most of the time with only slight changes between makers.
I noticed my Motorola Drexel entertainment center has the same cabinet as an RCA of the same year, With the only change being the color of the speaker cloth.

[Jeffhs]

Originally posted by Charlie
I think the flash probably washed out the picture on the CRT. Seems that the entire photo is kinda bright... as if the flash was a bit too much for that particular shot. Back then, they didn't exactly have electronic flashes that could be adjusted. Many cameras today can have the flash "turned down". Most of us here at AK probably take SEVERAL pictures of our sets operating and then choose one to post on AK. I usually find that I have to turn the flash OFF or on LOW to get a decent shot.

As far as the set in the picture, I doubt it is the "first Philco" as the seller says in the description. I think Marlin is right... it looks more like a Crosley.

Considering how expensive TV was years ago, you'd think those folks would have put it on something more fitting. Notice how much of the TV cabinet hangs over the sides. Also, would be neat to know what those kids were watching... Howdy Doody perhaps? Damn flash bulb!


Charlie,

I have a cheap Polaroid digital camera with no flash, which works great and makes good pictures as long as there's enough light on the scene you're photographing. (The only thing I don't like about my camera is it eats batteries like crazy, which is why I don't use it very often.) I've posted several of those pics here on AK (I took the pic which is my avatar with this camera; several others, mostly of my antique radios, are attached to messages I've posted in this and other AK forums such as the antique radio board), and do in fact usually take several pictures, selecting the best one to post here. Haven't done much with snapping pictures from a TV screen with the set on, though. I've tried, but even without a flash the pictures don't turn out well. I once tried to snap a pic of a scene from "The Rockford Files" on WGN with the digital camera, but the picture turned out worse than anything I've ever taken with any camera I've ever had in my life. My Vivitar 35mm film camera, which does have a very bright flash, makes better pictures in low-light situations than my Polaroid digital, probably because of the fact that the Polaroid does not have any kind of flash; in fact, the camera is so cheap ($39.50--I bought it through an ad on the Internet a couple years ago) it doesn't even have provisions for an external flash unit. Ironically, it does have a tripod socket, and I have a tripod that fits it. The pictures I take are better now than they used to be (the camera doesn't move when I press the shutter button), but I won't be taking pictures that look as good as the ones I see on other posts here until I can see my way clear to getting a decent digital camera with a flash. Don't get me wrong; I'm not a cheapskate. I just can't afford a good digital camera right now. (You guys probably have digital cameras with 3-megapixel or better resolution; I have no idea what the resolution is on mine.)

Oh well, you get what you pay for, as the saying goes.

BTW, about TV stands, I agree with your comments that those older sets (as well as modern ones, of course) would have looked better on a stand that actually fit them. My best guess is that whomever owned that particular set you mentioned just put it on whatever was available at the time, when he/she took the picture.

[Jeffhs]

Originally posted by wa2ise
{quote] It'd be better than most of the rubbish on British TV... Plus I can only get 4 channels (not even Channel 5) as we can't have satellite dishes installed and there's no cable in our street. On top of that there's no "Freeview" digital TV

I find it unusual that you cannot have a satellite dish and that there is no cable available in your area (at least, as you mention, not on your street). Do you live in an apartment building or some other antenna-restricted environment, such as a condominium complex? Also, what is the problem with cable in your area? I live in a small town that has cable everywhere, although we need it here as the reception is extremely poor on most VHF channels from Cleveland. I am about 45 miles southwest of the transmitters for the VHF stations; ironically, I get all four of the city's UHF channels--19, 43, 55 and 61--just great, even with rabbit ears. I think the reason I get 19, which is the CBS affiliate for Cleveland and northeastern Ohio, so well on an antenna is that its transmitter is just about 15 miles southwest of here, in a suburb of Cleveland called Shaker Heights. Channel 43 is UPN in Cleveland and has a 5-megawatt [ERP] transmitter, which explains why it comes in here so well. Channels 55 and 61 are also very high-power stations; the picture on 61 is like a picture postcard even on rabbit ears. The PBS channel in Cleveland, channel 25, is very poor on rabbit ears and probaly not much better on an outdoor antenna. On cable, of course, every station looks great, especially since the cable company in this area (Comcast) rebuilt and upgraded its entire system. The upgrade and rebuild for this area was completed about a week ago; as I said, now the reception is great.

I wouldn't go back to an antenna now even if I could, because the reception is so good now and I get more channels than I ever could get before. Like yourself, however, I am in a situation where outdoor TV antennas are not allowed, although one of my neighbors in the apartment building where I live has installed a satellite dish (DirecPC, which I think is tied in with DirecTV) for Internet access.



And I thought that TV in Europe was supposed to be better than American TV. Do you still have to pay a TV tax there? Something about having to have a license just to receive TV, much less transmit it. [/QUOTE]

[domfjbrown]

Well, the flats (apartments) we're in DO have a few Sky satellite dishes, but as we rent ours and the landlord keeps stalling on answering whether we can get one installed, we're stuck :(

The REALLY stupid thing is that our street is in one of the most expensive areas of Exeter, and it was built in 1993 - after cable arrived, and yet they never installed it in our area. Quite why is beyond me...

[Eric H]

Here's an interesting picture, sounds like they ruined a good book to get it.

This begs for a smart alec caption of some kind.

"Now junior, this is the high voltag...AAAAGGG..."


http://cgi.ebay.com/ws/eBayISAPI.dll?ViewItem&item=3278554124&indexURL=1&photoDisplayType=2#ebayphotohosting

[wa2ise]

Found this in one of those magazines you find in your hotel room, the sort promoting the local city.

[Jeffhs]

IIRC, that TV set looks like a GE model (when GE meant General Electric, not.....well, you know) from about 1962 or earlier. No UHF, so it must be from the very early '60s or even late '50s, before all-channel tuning was mandatory in this country. I remember seeing a few of those sets when I was growing up in the late '60s-early '70s, when people held on to their old TVs until they fell apart. Those older sets were built to last; most folks really did hold on to them until the wheels fell off, so to speak.

BTW: What hotel did the magazine containing that picture come from? Just curious.

[Eric H]

That's my first TV! The one I have been looking for for years:

http://www.vintagetvsets.com/wanted.htm

[Charlie]

Snagged this one off ebay. Someone wasn't holding the camera very well. Cut off most of the TV! :rolleyes:

http://cgi.aol.ebay.com/ws/eBayISAPI.dll?ViewItem&item=3283194475&category=14279

[Charlie]

oops... forgot the pic....

[Eric H]

Anyone know the TV? I know what type of clock is on top of it! (See the first post in this thread)

[captainmoody]

Looks almost identical to the DeForest-Sanabria I gave away last year.

[wa2ise]

Here's a photo of a class in my old Catholic grammar school. From around 1964. Someone installed B&W TV sets in each classroom so we could watch something the teacher selected from our local educational TV channel (in the NYC area it was channel 13). Notice that the TV set is sitting in the back of the classroom. The teachers never used the TVs. They spent most of the time drilling the kids on arithemetic and grammar so we'd score well on the annual achevement tests. If it didn't show on the test, it wasn't taught.

That blackboard pointer saw more use hitting kids than pointing out stuff on the blackboard. :(

[Charlie]

I recall our elementry school having 2 Magnavox 25" color sets. They were bought around 74 or 75. Didn't get used very much. I bet those sets are still there today. I do recall watching the first space shuttle accident on those sets.

[jasonlava]

This is one of the TVs I grew up with.

I think this is a 75 or 76 console. My grandparents had an RCA that I think was a little older because it had the on/off toggle switch and the picture controls hidden in a drawer that swings out.

Also in the pic is an old cable box and 13 year old me reading the instructions to my NEW Commodore MPS-801 printer. This must've been in 1984 when I got my C64 system.

[Eric H]

Possibly an Emerson?

[heathkit tv]

That wallpaper is giving me flashbacks! Why, I can taste the rainbow LOL Can you hear the smell?

Anthony

[Eric H]

Unknown set?

[Dave S]

That first shot in this thread really caught my attention. I thought I had a shot of this set with that clock in the picture. (That's me on the left -- a half a century ago!) I still have the clock, but the set is l-o-n-g gone.

Anyone know where I might find one of these ugly Motorolas to become the sentimental centerpiece of my collection?

http://www.sicaproductions.com/images/motorola.jpg

[wa2ise]

Dave S, that TV set's CRT looks to have an aspect ratio of 5:3 instead of the usual 4:3 for an NTSC set. The 5:3 ratio is close to what is used in modern digital HDTV. Maybe your picture's aspect ratio is vertically squashed, but the people and the TV dials look correct, not squashed.

Maybe an HDTV set manufacturer should make a set with "retro" styling. Styling like that used in our antique sets....

[Dave S]

Well since we had only r-e-l-a-t-i-v-e-l-y recently upgraded from 441 lines, I guess you could say this was an "HD" set :)

[Eric H]

Here's a vid capture from the 1958 film American Look.

The kids are watching an RCA 14-PD-8053

[Eric H]

Little girl with a Cat.

Judging by the pushbutton tuner the TV appears to be a Bendix

[Rob Flory]

Here is a 1944 shot of Grandpa looking at a set he built pre-war. It is displaying a test pattern from W2XWV, DuMont out of NYC. This shot was taken in Princeton, NJ.

[ChuckA]

Rob,

Have you tried to find out if the set still exists?

It appears to have been made from the cabinet of a 1928 Victor VE 10-35 automatic phonograph.


Chuck

[Rob Flory]

Chuck,
I think you are right on the cabinet, at least it is certainly a Victrola cabinet. I also have the mirror. The guts were discarded a long time ago, when Grandpa(Les Flory) turned the cabinet into a hi-fi cabinet with Garrard turntable, tuner and amp, and record storage. That is how I am using it now, but hope to drop a round-tube chassis in there someday and recreate the look and feel of the original set. Vertical hold on the front makes riding sync easier. ;) I may have the original tone arm and reproducer from the phonograph.

[ChuckA]

Rob,

A Sparton 4940 would probably be an ideal candidate to retrofit into the cabinet.

Too bad the HI-FI won out over the TV.


Chuck

[maxm]

Sorry to bring back an old thread, but I just found this picture at my grandma's house , taken in 1981, but the set is older, I know nothing about it, and nobody can rebember anything about the set, seems like an intersting design with the knobs across the top of the screen.
Any ideas about brand, or if it was color??
Somewhere is have a much better picutre of her late 60s RCA color console (She had a lot of TVs), which she used until 1990, and would have kept using it, but the picture tube died...:(
And was replaced with a Zenith Sentury 2 Console, still going strong today.

http://homepage.mac.com/brameika/mysterytv.jpg

Yes, that's all of the TV that was in the picture, sorry I don't have a better one.

Thanks...

[Jeffhs]

Originally posted by maxm
Sorry to bring back an old thread, but I just found this picture at my grandma's house , taken in 1981, but the set is older, I know nothing about it, and nobody can rebember anything about the set, seems like an intersting design with the knobs across the top of the screen.
Any ideas about brand, or if it was color??
Somewhere is have a much better picutre of her late 60s RCA color console (She had a lot of TVs), which she used until 1990, and would have kept using it, but the picture tube died...:(
And was replaced with a Zenith Sentury 2 Console, still going strong today.

http://homepage.mac.com/brameika/mysterytv.jpg

Yes, that's all of the TV that was in the picture, sorry I don't have a better one.

Thanks...

Max, that set looks to me like a Zenith. I discovered this while looking at the partial pic you attached; found the name right above the CRT. I can't tell you if it was a color set, though, without seeing more of it.

The Sentry 2 series was a great line of TVs. I have a Zenith Sentry 2 19" table model in my bedroom which still works as well as it did when it was new, almost ten years ago. I don't use it much anymore; it was my main watcher until 1999, then I bought an RCA XL100 when I moved in November of that year. I still keep the Zenith around to back up the RCA, and will use the Zenith as my main set when the RCA eventually goes West.

Zenith was my favorite make of TVs and home audio gear until the company went offshore (grrrrr!). Whereas the company's old slogan for years was "the quality goes in before the name goes on" (this was true of their older radios and TVs--I have two Zenith radios that still work today, and well, in addition to having had several old Zenith TVs from neighbors' trash in the '70s that often worked as soon as I got them home, or after very minor repairs--tube replacements, adjustments, etc.), in the case of today's Zenith-branded Gold Star televisions, "the quality went out" the window when Zenith left Chicago for Korea in the '80s (this was probably when their audio division went offshore; I once had a Zenith integrated stereo system which was made in Korea, however, that worked well for me for some 17 years).


I did not realize until I read your post, however, that the Sentry 2 model was also offered in a console cabinet. Was always under the impression that this model was only made in a gray table-model cabinet, as mine was.

BTW, I don't much care for the way the finish has been flaking/scratching off the cabinet of my Sentry 2. The set was made almost a decade ago, as I said above, and already the cabinet is starting to look bad, although the TV itself works great on cable (no CRT or chassis problems whatsoever so far). What was used to finish the cabinets of the Sentry 2 table models? I've never seen the finish scratch or flake off a plastic cabinet before now, and I'm baffled. I'll probably wind up refinishing (if that's the right word) the cabinet with woodgrain Contact paper or some such material if and when I put the set in my living room, but I would like to know what caused the original finish to go to pot as it did. My best guess would be that the cabinets of these offshore-manufactured TVs are nothing like earlier ones, but then again, a lot of what comes to us today from Korea and other offshore locations isn't of the quality things used to be, when everything was made in the United States and Zenith, for example, meant Zenith Radio Corporation of Chicago, RCA meant Radio Corporation of America of Harrison, New Jersey, Magnavox meant The Magnavox Company of Fort Wayne, Indiana...and so on.

Personally, I suspect Zenith started cutting corners on its color televisions as soon as its System 3 line, with plug-in printed circuit modules (gasp! :eek:!!!!! horror of horrors!!!) , was introduced in the '70s. This was the beginning of the end for Zenith as far as the company's reputation for reliability was concerned. The day the company abandoned hand-wired circuits in favor of circuit modules was the beginning of their downfall, IMO.

Oh well--that was then; this is now, like it or not. Offshoring, as it is known these days, is a way of life for many (if not most or all) manufacturers of consumer goods. The quality of these goods has, in many cases, gone out the window as a result, but there is precious little if anything we can do about it short of putting up with it.

[Eric H]

Don't be, new postings keep things interesting :)

Originally posted by maxm
Sorry to bring back an old thread

Odd looking set, is that the tuner sticking out the front like a big thumbwheel?

Maybe a Westinghouse?

[Big Dave]

I could swear I have a SAMS (of course, 3 hours away) that had a similar set pictured and I am pretty sure it was a Westinghouse.

[maxm]

Thanks for the replies...
Looking at the actual picture, I think I can just make out numbers above that big knob, so it is probably the tuner.
I will be doing a lot of cleaning there soon, since she is moving in about a month, so I will look for some mroe TV pictures, maybe a better one of this set. I know she had a LOT of TVs in the 50s and 60s, so there are probably more photos.

[Steve K]

Max:

This ad looks a lot like the set you pictured. It is taken from a 1961 Sears catalog.

Steve

[maxm]

Wow!, That sure looks like the set.
I'll show it to my mom sometime, to see if it beings back any memories.
The date seems right, since this was her "basement" TV when the photo was taken, and probably moved down in the late 60s when she got her RCA color console.

Thanks for the ad!!!

[bgadow]

I should have made the Silvertone connection-I've got a Suburbanite table set that is maybe a few years older than this but has the control panel across the top. Different design but same idea.

[Eric H]

These look more like professional monitors but still cool:

http://cgi.ebay.com/ws/eBayISAPI.dll?ViewItem&category=3638&item=6111626982&rd=1

[heathkit tv]

Originally posted by Rob Flory
Here is a 1944 shot of Grandpa looking at a set he built pre-war. It is displaying a test pattern from W2XWV, DuMont out of NYC. This shot was taken in Princeton, NJ.

Rob, that photo of your Grandpa looks to be a professional picture. The lighting, composition, and the fact that there's a clear screen shot of the TV (an actual live picture with no scan lines) all lead me to believe this.

Did this photo appear in a magazine etc at one time? Or was/is there a professional photographer in the family? Just curious.

Anthony

[Eric H]

http://cgi.ebay.com/ws/eBayISAPI.dll?ViewItem&category=3638&item=6112042351&rd=1

[maxm]

I found this record at a church sale, and had to buy it because of the TV.:D
I've never seen a set with a tuner like this, there don't seem to be very many CBS sets out there.

If you're intersted, the record is "67 Melody Lane: Ken Griffen at the Wurlitzer Organ - 18 Selections from the Ken Griffen film series, "67 Melody Lane".

[Eric H]

Whoa, how did you tune that thing?
Does the control slide along the bottom there or what??

[heathkit tv]

The tuner does nothing......that set only receives CBS stations!!

Anthony

[maxm]

Here's another, I believe this was my grandma's first TV.
Thats my Mom and her sister setting there.
Don't know the brand of the TV, its long gone, but if you look on the lower shelf in the corner, you will see a little ceramic alligator, which she still has today. :)

[Sandy G]

Awww, how cute !! Those 2 l'il girls look like angels......Doncha just wish it could be 1955 again, just for a little while ?!? -Sandy G.

[andy]

I was flipping through the channels earlier and caught a few min of a documentary about the playboy mansion. Here's a few screen captures of some shots with TVs. The top one looks like a B/W set built into the wall, then I see a round set that looks like a Zenith space command next to an unknown rectangular followed by what looks like another round color set.

[bgadow]

Those consoles just look out of place in the "mansion". He was probably too, eh, busy to worry about that!

Here is a shot from Christmas '75, me on the left, my sister on the right. Thats our old GE color console; I can't remember what make the console stereo on the left is-it was replaced with a Zenith later on.

[Charlie]

WOW look at that RED carpet!!! :eek:

[captainmoody]

Here are some pictures I took in the early seventies, The first was when our RCA we purchased in June 1969 had its first failure two years later. Notice the Sony B/W on top! Oh, and the Channel Master antenna rotor control next to it
The other was when we were traveling, I liked this Mag so I took a pic of it!
The next is when we lived in Tucson, It is the hybrid RCA I mentioned earlier (Accucolor) The kid from next door is almost blocking its view!

[Captain Video]

Picture taken in a bakery, on September 18, 1950 - day one of brazilian television. The crowd is watching the inaugural broadcast in an RCA set. Sorry about the small size of the photo.

[Chad Hauris]

Captainmoody thanks for posting the RCA ctc-39. I have the solid-state clone of it but would like to find the tube model someday.

[Eric H]

This gentleman looks rather uncomfortable sitting in front of a Sylvania Halolight?

Maybe his back hurt?

http://cgi.ebay.com/Vintage-1950s-TV-photo-Living-Room-Television-Set_W0QQitemZ6191369270QQcategoryZ48QQssPageNameZW D1VQQrdZ1QQcmdZViewItem

[Tony V]

Kinda hard to sit appropriately in those old armless chairs from the 50's. My grandmother had chairs like the ones in the pic so theres all kind of photos of relatives sitting just like that in our photo albums :lmao: :D No Halolites though as my grandparents only had a 1955 RCA Victor portable that they used until the late 80's when they gave it to me when they bought their Sylvania Superset. Needless to say it didnt give them the same service as the old RCA as the Sylvania is in tv heaven and the RCA is still playing in my den.
-Tony

[Bill Cahill]

It's mis-placed, but, somewhere, in our family archives, is a picture of me sitting in front of our 1950 RCA Victor family tv set, at the ripe old age of 1 year old. :no: Won't show if I find it, though, as picture might be slightly obscene. I was buck naked!! :lmao: :naughty:

[Captain Video]

I was surfing the net when I found this photo...it was taken in 1952/53. It was taken on the Invictus factory, which produced the first televisions made in Brazil in early 1952. This is one of their very first models, I believe it was one which was also a radio set.

[Captain Video]

I was researching my archives on CD-ROM's when I found this 1952 ad. It's the same TV on the photo above.

[Bobby Brady]

I was surfing the net when I found this photo...it was taken in 1952/53. It was taken on the Invictus factory, which produced the first televisions made in Brazil in early 1952. This is one of their very first models, I believe it was one which was also a radio set.

Wow, I imagined south america getting TV much later. Todays spanish TV shows seem to be mostly "T"&"A" shots mixed into everything for kids and adults alike. I would love to see early broadcasts from spanish TV. Does anybody know if spanish broadcasts were always as sexual as they are today?
I would guess yes but perhaps with a little more good taste.

[Bobby Brady]

It's mis-placed, but, somewhere, in our family archives, is a picture of me sitting in front of our 1950 RCA Victor family tv set, at the ripe old age of 1 year old. :no: Won't show if I find it, though, as picture might be slightly obscene. I was buck naked!! :lmao: :naughty:



I suspect all here can be trusted to respectfully veiw a 1 year old child nude.
Somehow I think we would not notice the private areas but you could blur it out if it makes you feel better. I think Bill is being funny but what a downer to think that as a society we have to be paranoid about a nude baby.

Don't take that the wrong way! I love our society inspite of my recognizing faults here and there. I love everybody and everything, I just wish we could all be concerned with the important stuff first

I don't need to see Bill's photo but it would be cute to see a TV where it was way back then.
It's frustrating to not be able to add any humor here as someone would likely interpret it completely wrong.

[wa2ise]

Todays spanish TV shows seem to be mostly "T"&"A" shots mixed into everything for kids and adults alike.

That's likely because the people who would complain to the FCC never watch the Spanish TV channels. And nobody at the FCC watches Spanish TV either... :nono: My father used to like to put the local Spanish TV stations on just to see the above mentioned t and a... :nono: This annoyed my mom... :nono:

[Captain Video]

Wow, I imagined south america getting TV much later. Todays spanish TV shows seem to be mostly "T"&"A" shots mixed into everything for kids and adults alike. I would love to see early broadcasts from spanish TV. Does anybody know if spanish broadcasts were always as sexual as they are today?
I would guess yes but perhaps with a little more good taste.

Here in Brazil we don't speak spanish, but portuguese.
However, the standard of TV programming here has been very low, lots of sexual stuff, but it is a little better now.
I don't know about the other latin-american countries, but the standard of programming here was very different on the early days of television. Very high level - Shakespeare plays, some short documentaries, lots of musical numbers, Quiz shows, cartoons for kids and sport broadcasting. I imagine that the standard for TV broadcasting here went downhill when the TV set began to became affordable to the masses of the poor and uneducated, no longer being just the rich people's toy it was in the begining. I also imagine that the "liberation" of the morality that happened around the world in the 60's played it's part as well.
Very little recording of the brazilian television of the 1950's exist today, because 90% of the programs were live staged, and most of the stuff that was recorded on film was destroyed on fires that plagued the TV stations in the 1960's ( believed cause of those fires is political motivation ), and also, many of the earlier TV stations, including the first one, went bankrupt and are no longer operating.

[Bobby Brady]

[QUOTE=Captain Video
Very little recording of the brazilian television of the 1950's exist today, because 90% of the programs were live staged, and most of the stuff that was recorded on film was destroyed on fires that plagued the TV stations in the 1960's ( believed cause of those fires is political motivation ), and also, many of the earlier TV stations, including the first one, went bankrupt and are no longer operating.[/QUOTE]

Thanks for that info. I am surprised and saddened to know that. I have wondered about such things possibly happening to old video/movies. To think of what was lost is very sad.

[polaraman]

Found a couple more Tv pictures on Ebay.

[Charlie]

Just think... that was back when kids' Christmas gifts were simple and easy to pick out. A little girl with a toy horse... another one with a Monkees toy. Imagine this... today... go out and buy your daughter a Justin Timberlake doll!

[polaraman]

Here a couple more pictures. The Ebay link has a picture of an RCA set with KJEO test screen image.

polaraman




http://www.ssb4.net/members/watch/enlarge.php?aid=&img=13856/img645_1166754840.jpg

[compucat]

I wish we could tell what those kids were watching on that porthole Zenith, Bozo The Clown, Howdy Doody maybe?

That Ebay picture with the RCA sure has poor linearity. The wax paper caps must have been leaking already.

[Captain Video]

The picture below is very historic. In the screen of this RCA Victor set is the image of Mister Assis Chateaubriand, the founder of Brazilian Television, making the inaugural speech of his TV station on September 18, 1950.

[polaraman]

A picture of W.C. Runder Tv store. Any info on this??

polaraman

http://cgi.ebay.com/1963-VINTAGE-W-C-RUNDER-PHOTO-TV-SHOWROOM-LOADS-OF-SETS_W0QQitemZ200065569803QQihZ010QQcategoryZ14279 QQrdZ1QQcmdZViewItem

[Eric H]

A picture of W.C. Runder Tv store. Any info on this??

polaraman

http://cgi.ebay.com/1963-VINTAGE-W-C-RUNDER-PHOTO-TV-SHOWROOM-LOADS-OF-SETS_W0QQitemZ200065569803QQihZ010QQcategoryZ14279 QQrdZ1QQcmdZViewItem

No info but there's my 1959 GE! on the left.

[Captain Video]

Not only on the left, but also on the right, there's the same model, with the man wearing a dark suit in front of it. That's very nice, I have that same set im my collection. Would be interesting to know if that store sold only brand new TVs or if it also sold used sets, because that model using that type of CRT would be a little outdated by 1963. Unless of course GE kept producing it as a low cost model, with that typically 50's CRT.

[jmdocs]

Great picture. I love that combo in the foreground. Do those speakers close up to conceal the TV?

As a counterpoint, I offer a photo that's been on my desktop for a while now. Any info on THAT set?

[wa2ise]

As a counterpoint, I offer a photo that's been on my desktop for a while now. Any info on THAT set?

Not off hand, though I took the liberty to fill in the TV screen with the show the cat was likely watching... :D
http://audiokarma.org/forums/attachment.php?attachmentid=36315&d=1168583312

[Tubejunke]

I wonder if its one of those odd ball cheap sets like Pilot, Olympic, Muntz ect...

[polaraman]

Thought I would dust off this thread! 8TS30? in a Bar!

polaraman

[polaraman]

Looks Like a Zenith Mayflower. I bet EricH is drooling over the furniture in this picture!

polaraman

[polaraman]

Nice Vintage shot of two kids infront of a TV. What is it?

polaraman

[Captain Video]

EXACTLY same RCA portable I have ... I have some numbers of this magazine, ( even number one, from 1947 ) but This one escaped me... guy on an auction gave more money than I could spend I that time...I am still searching for another copy of this number.

[Eric H]

Thought I would dust off this thread! 8TS30? in a Bar!

polaraman

Actually I think that's a 630TS!
It has light colored grille cloth the 8-TS has a black wood grille.

[ChrisW6ATV]

I thought it looked like my 630TS as well.

[wa2ise]

From the family photo album:
http://www.audiokarma.org/forums/attachment.php?attachmentid=57672&d=1187221546 http://www.audiokarma.org/forums/attachment.php?attachmentid=57671&d=1187221546
Sometime at Christmas at Grandma's in the 50's and early 60's. I'm pretty sure that the TV set (partially visible in both pictures) was the Setchell-Carlson that had continious tuning channels 2 thru 6 (VHF low) and 7 thru 13 (VHF high). A ring knob was used to select VHF low or high. Not sure why grandma looks unhappy, maybe the TV needed service? :D

[kx250rider]

Nice Vintage shot of two kids infront of a TV. What is it?

polaraman

HALLICRAFTERS!

Charles

[David Roper]

ding ding!




Give the man a kewpie doll! :)

[Adam]

I had these on my computer, but I don't remember where I pulled them from.

[polaraman]

Roundie Heaven!

Here is a couple more pics!



polaraman

[Captain Video]

Wow, that first picture... is that a store or a collection? Anyway, those shelves must be REALLY strong, to suport the weight of all those roundies!

I feel sorry for the guys who had the task of putting those roundies on top of those shelves...

[polaraman]

Looks like a Moto!

polaraman

[bgadow]

Now THAT was a store! They were certainly very serious about it. To have a time machine...

[Captain Video]

I don't know where this picture was taken, but it sure looks nice.


Looks like a 1951 GE.

[Tubejunke]

Looks like a Moto!

polaraman

Now if I wanted a PLAIN set that would be the one. I have a couple of early 50's Motorolas. A bit newer than this one. One is also VERY plain, but the bakelite version I have of the same model has a kind of Art Deco very distinct look.

I don't know but I gather that Motorola was kind of a working mans set. Probably low priced with decent durability. Mine do have those darn selenium rectifiers which to me automatically make a set cheaply made. I like my power transformer and a big, fat, 5U4G glowing in the background.

[David Roper]

In sets with hollow-state rectifiers Motorola liked a big fat tranny with the 5U4 on top, which looks pretty cool too.

[Jeffhs]

In sets with hollow-state rectifiers Motorola liked a big fat tranny with the 5U4 on top, which looks pretty cool too.

Hmmm. I never cared for the idea of having the 5U4 LV rectifier on top of the power transformer. It may have looked cool and may have worked just as well as the chassis-mounted 5U4s, but there was a drawback: if the rectifier socket went bad (cracked, bad contacts, etc.) you'd have to replace the entire transformer, even if the latter was still good.

As hot as those 5U4s got in the old sets, I don't think the socket lasted all that long either. Also, the few sets I've seen with the transformer-mounted 5U4 socket (pictures only; never saw one up close) only had one 5U4. I have yet to see a TV with two 5U4 sockets atop the transformer. I know some sets used two rectifiers in the low-voltage supply, but the tubes were almost always in chassis-mounted sockets.

[David Roper]

if the rectifier socket went bad (cracked, bad contacts, etc.) you'd have to replace the entire transformer, even if the latter was still good.

I don't doubt a TV repairman told you that once upon a time, but today I think somebody working on a set which needed that done would carefully remove the end bells and spend a little extra time fixing the socket rather than a lot of extra time seeking out a replacement transformer :yes:

[Eric H]

Also, the few sets I've seen with the transformer-mounted 5U4 socket (pictures only; never saw one up close) only had one 5U4. I have yet to see a TV with two 5U4 sockets atop the transformer.


Now you have. :yes:
well, sort of.
While these are mounted on the transformer they are not mounted in the end bell but rather on top in a separate metal housing, still the wiring does come out of the top of the transformer and passes through it so I guess it counts.

This is in a Zenith 20X20Q chassis from a 1955 Flashmatic set.

[Eric H]

This photo is on eBay, you'll have to search for it yourself if you want to see it uncensored. :D
Looks like a 50-T-1400 Philco?

[Captain Video]

Hey, is that Betty Page? I think she was HOT!:D

[polaraman]

Another vintage shot on Ebay.

polaraman

http://cgi.ebay.com/Vintage-Photo-Girl-Opens-Presents-TV-Television_W0QQitemZ140156195175QQihZ004QQcategory Z48QQssPageNameZWDVWQQrdZ1QQcmdZViewItem

[Jeffhs]

Now you have. :yes:
well, sort of.
While these are mounted on the transformer they are not mounted in the end bell but rather on top in a separate metal housing, still the wiring does come out of the top of the transformer and passes through it so I guess it counts.

This is in a Zenith 20X20Q chassis from a 1955 Flashmatic set.

Well! I learned something reading this. :yes: Thanks for the info and picture. I guess even after 35+ years of working with TVs and such, there's always more to learn.

Kind regards,

[classicradios]

Found these photos in an old family album. Photos were taken(or developed) in 1962. Is that an RCA emblem under the screen? Anyone know the model number?
Jim

[Steve K]

Jim:

Are those the same sets? The one on the left looks like it has a different trim around the front of the cabinet. They are indeed RCAs but without being able to see the legs/feet I can not make a positive ID but the one on the left looks like a Model 21-S-521.

Steve

[classicradios]

I thought it was the same TV, Never noticed the different trim. Here's the only photo I could find showing the legs.
Jim

[Steve K]

Based on that style of leg I believe that it is a 21-S-521 (521U if it had UHF).

Steve

[Captain Video]

This is the cover of a magazine celebratring the 50th aniversary of television in Brazil, on the year 2000. But I strongly suspect that this is an American photo, because a 1947 model most likely WAS NOT sold here in 1950.

[wa2ise]

Vintage TV set on casters! :D
from http://cgi.ebay.com/Vintage-1958-TELEVISION-photo-Boy-Sleeping-by-TV-Set_W0QQitemZ290170881963QQihZ019QQcategoryZ48QQss PageNameZWDVWQQrdZ1QQcmdZViewItem

[Steve K]

That set with casters is a Model 21T6227 RCA.

[compucat]

That set with casters is a Model 21T6227 RCA.

I thought that was an RCA Victor. There was an elaborate filmed advertisement showing all the new models and one of them featured "rubber covered wheels".

[promoguy17]

Go to www.astorclassics.com and check out the antique TVs and radios that this guys has got.

[rld-tv01]

First two pictures are old amateur TV station pictures I got from ebay last year. I did a search on the web and found the third picture online.

[Captain Video]

Amateur TV station? What was that? I thought only commercial enterprises received licenses to broadcast TV signals.

[ChrisW6ATV]

Amateur TV, abbreviated "ATV", is full-motion TV transmitted and received over ham radio ("amateur radio"). W6VSV is the ham radio call sign of the owner of the station in those pictures, probably in the 1950's. Here in the San Francisco area of California, there are many of us who send and receive ATV signals, and even a relay station ("repeater") on the nearby Mount Diablo with the call sign W6CX. The stations do not use standard TV channels/frequencies; we use frequencies in the licensed ham radio bands instead, in the UHF range. The Mt. Diablo station W6CX has its signal on 427.25 MHz, which is in the 70cm amateur radio band but is also the same as USA cable-tv channel 58. People here can receive this station by putting their TV into "cable-ready" mode and selecting channel 58, but using an antenna rather than connecting the cable signal.

Notice my Audiokarma name... :)

[ChrisW6ATV]

Thanks for sharing the pictures, rld-tv01.

[Captain Video]

Two pictures I found on two 1958 editions of "Revista do Rádio" , a 50's Brazilian magazine devoted to the artistic and celebrity world.

The console TV is most likely an RCA Victor from the early 50's; the tabletop model is a Brazilian SEMP.

[Dave A]

I found this on tvparty.com

Bertie was a local kids show in the 50's. What set is the kid watching? A pretty good off-air shot with an old Brownie or the like.

Dave A

[Captain Video]

I am almost certain that this set is a Philco.

[Randy Bassham]

That is a 16 inch Philco, I can't tell from the picture if it's a table model or console. Looks similar to the one my Aunt bought around 1951 or so, and was the first TV I remember seeing. My Uncle was in the Navy and my Aunt lived with my Grandmother and she had the set there. Dad fixed it for her a few times but somewhere around 1959 she replaced it with a 21" RCA console. The Philco stayed at my Grandmothers house until she passed away in 1983. When my Aunts and Uncles were cleaning out the house my Aunt gave me the set, I've still got it in and intend to get around to restoring it hopefully soon.

[Aage]

That is a 16 inch Philco

I'm sure you meant to put the picture in there, but...

[Captain Video]

Found this picture on the Internet. Don't know where or when it was taken, but it sure is a nice picture:

[Captain Video]

Ooops, here is the picture:

[Captain Video]

I just bought this one at an Internet auction tonight. Picture is too small for me to be able to identify the TV, so I can't say if it is a Brazilian or American set:

[Captain Video]

New one that I bought yesterday. I am pretty sure that the TV shown is a 1956 Philips.

[G.B.]

New one that I bought yesterday. I am pretty sure that the TV shown is a 1956 Philips. Captain Video, I always liked the table with the legs comming out behind the Young Man. You would always stub a toe on them... Great Picture

[Captain Video]

New one that I bought... I am really hooked on this thing of buying old pictures with 50's TV sets on them!!!

[Captain Video]

TV is an RCA Victor. And the bride is ( better saying was ) gorgeous!!!

[Indian Head]

This shot is taken from a vintage 3D stereo slide of a (slightly) older pair of newlyweds. The caption reads: The Bride and Groom on Wed. Day--Cora and Bert. The RCA tv looks like an early color set...well, as much color as that blue/clear/green cellophane will allow. :D

What's the deal with that antenna? It looks like it will pick up signals from outer space! And how about that Chinese-themed tv lamp? The stuff on the tv is almost more interesting than the set itself.

[Captain Video]

VERY cool antenna. Looks like some artfact from a 50's sci-fi movie.

My mother remenbers those plastic sheets to "simulate" color on a B/W set. She actually had one in her house, in the 60's.

I also like the glasses the man is wearing on. I want to find a pair of glasses like that for me someday.

The TV is almost like the one on the marriage picture I posted.

[electroking]

Here is a postcard issued by Motel Trans-Canada in Villeroy (Quebec),
a place that still exists to this day:

http://www.lodging-quebec.com/centre-du-quebec/villeroy.html

The TV shown is what I believe a 1955 21-inch Viking (made
by Electrohome for Eaton's), that must have been regarded as fairly
reliable as it was at least 8 years old when this card was issued.
The Trans-Canada Highway that gives its name to the motel was
opened in 1963 IIRC. Regards.

[Indian Head]

The TV is almost like the one on the marriage picture I posted.


Yes! Your picture reminded us of this one. We just had to dig it out and post it as kind of a comparison, even if the wedding couples look very different. :)

[wa2ise]

Emmett Till pictured at his Chicago home at Christmas 1954, next to a TV set. Tribune. Wonder what brand TV that was. This was the kid who was brutally murdered in Mississippi in 1955 and his slaying has been cited as one of the key events that energized the American Civil Rights Movement.

[Captain Video]

I am pretty sure that Emmett Till's TV is a Philco.

[ChrisW6ATV]

What's the deal with that antenna? It looks like it will pick up signals from outer space!

VERY cool antenna. Looks like some artfact from a 50's sci-fi movie.
I have that same antenna, except mine has the gold-color plating common on older antennas rather than the nickel/chrome finish of the one in the picture. Mine was made by the Hi-Lo TV Antenna Corporation, 3540 North Ravenswood Avenue, Chicago 13, Illinois.

I wonder what is at that address now... If I still lived in Chicago, it would be interesting to go look.

[NowhereMan 1966]

This shot is taken from a vintage 3D stereo slide of a (slightly) older pair of newlyweds. The caption reads: The Bride and Groom on Wed. Day--Cora and Bert. The RCA tv looks like an early color set...well, as much color as that blue/clear/green cellophane will allow. :D

What's the deal with that antenna? It looks like it will pick up signals from outer space! And how about that Chinese-themed tv lamp? The stuff on the tv is almost more interesting than the set itself.

Looks like it could be a set of rabbit ears that can get UHF as well as VHF. I think I saw one like that in the movie, "White Christmas," on the old General's TV.

[maxm]

This address is not far form me, so I walked over today to have a look. It is now a residence, this is just finishing construction. This stretch of Ravenswood still has some factories, I got to visit one further north a few years back, Electro-Technic Products, which makes Tesla Coils. Scott Radio, the makers of the high end radios with the big chrome chassis were also on Ravenswood, the building was still there when I last looked.
Sorry this is somewhat off topic, I'm interested in documenting Chicago's old electronic manufactures.

-- Max

I have that same antenna, except mine has the gold-color plating common on older antennas rather than the nickel/chrome finish of the one in the picture. Mine was made by the Hi-Lo TV Antenna Corporation, 3540 North Ravenswood Avenue, Chicago 13, Illinois.

I wonder what is at that address now... If I still lived in Chicago, it would be interesting to go look.

[G.B.]

This address is not far form me, so I walked over today to have a look. It is now a residence, this is just finishing construction. This stretch of Ravenswood still has some factories, I got to visit one further north a few years back, Electro-Technic Products, which makes Tesla Coils. Scott Radio, the makers of the high end radios with the big chrome chassis were also on Ravenswood, the building was still there when I last looked.
Sorry this is somewhat off topic, I'm interested in documenting Chicago's old electronic manufactures.

-- Max

Don't forget Zenith. What do You have on them ??? This is all antique TV Radio. It is part of History... You could also write a book on Tesla as well.

[Indian Head]

I have that same antenna, except mine has the gold-color plating common on older antennas rather than the nickel/chrome finish of the one in the picture. Mine was made by the Hi-Lo TV Antenna Corporation, 3540 North Ravenswood Avenue, Chicago 13, Illinois.

Thanks for that info, Chris. :thmbsp: We'll just have to keep an eye out for one of those to display on one of our old sets.

Gotta also check out White Christmas to see it on the General's set. The only tv related thing we noticed (beside the cool studio where Bing makes his nationwide plea) was the Dumont set that Rosemary is watching him on.

[wa2ise]

Space mission screenshots from the 60's:
http://www.squareamerica.com/images4/is17.jpg http://www.squareamerica.com/images4/is43.jpg
and early 70's:http://www.squareamerica.com/images4/is49.jpg

Another showing President Johnson watching a TV during the space missions of the 60's: http://www.squareamerica.com/images4/is9.jpg



JFK assassination: http://www.squareamerica.com/images3/jk7.jpg
Linked to, and
more at http://www.squareamerica.com/is.htm

[Captain Video]

Wow!!! I loved those photos!!!:thmbsp:

[wa2ise]

More old photos, and an ad, from evilbay:

[wa2ise]

Uploaded by newhallone, and I figured that it would be a good addition to this thread:
http://www.audiokarma.org/forums/attachment.php?attachmentid=112539&d=1223774565
Elvis and his CTC5 RCA color TV

[Captain Video]

Nice picture of the King. I would REALLY appreciate if someone could find - and post here - the picture of him with his small RCA Victor 8-PT-7030 portable set from 1956. As an Elvis fan, and as an owner of that same set ( the only RCA Victor in my small collection ) I would love to have that photo.

[wa2ise]

Not what you were looking for, seems Elvis confused his gun for the remote... :nono:

http://www.audiokarma.org/forums/attachment.php?attachmentid=112570&stc=1&d=1223788567

The TV Set Elvis shot when Robert Goulet appeared on the screen, now part of a museum display. Looks like it needs a new CRT, and some of the knobs are missing...

[Captain Video]

Wish I could do that when the TV is showing political ads!!!

[Adam]

I had always thought Elvis shot his RCA 2000, I wonder if he shot 2 sets or if I just had it mixed up.

[Captain Video]

Pictures from the ( no longer existing ) "Mesbla" department store. The first picture shows the building of the store ( and lots of VWs!!! ). The second picture shows some of the store windows... and a GE TV set identical to one I have in my collection.

[bgadow]

The "murdered" set is a CTC-31 remote model-I had one that was identical, which I sold to captainmoody. Trying to get it to work right caused me to nearly have the same reaction!

[El Predicta]

I can't remember his name, but there is a well known photographer that produced an Elvis calender for 2007. One of the months features a picture of E and that set. I have the calendar (if I can find it).