Recent content by 63getelevision

Great story, Tom, have it restored, you'll never be sorry.

They have screws on the back, I'm pretty sure there are no electronics inside.

The volume control looking things on the speakers is just a circle with a Magnavox crest on it. I think they are just speakers, and I have seen single units alongside a stereo radio speaker amp unit in the brochures. I own a Magnavox stereo radio set that does not have the decorative trimwork on...

Porta-Fi--early '60s to early '70s. This is 1969. Plug your transmitter into the stereo, plug the speaker into the electric outlet on the wall.

I found out through the washer forum, that avocado was not available in Samantha's '65-'66 vintage Frigidaires. My second season colors are a cross between washed-out Hamilton-Beach soda fountain mixer green, and putrid avocado. Samantha had either Sunny Yellow, or Turquoise.

Funny you should mention telephones and hairdryers-I snagged this mint green AT&T Princess at Salvation Army, and this powder blue Presto Mini Dryer at Mustard Seed, about a week apart. Love that GE dryer!

Zest will celebrate its 50th anniversary in 2008, there was an ad that played on our local station's 30th anniversary, with a '58 muscle boy taking a shower.

Just read your "private email". Thank you for humiliating me.

This is a different picture of the same set.

Hi Mark, I had been getting my Micromatic needles successfully through Radio Shack, NOS, and have at least 3 in stock, but like everything else, don't know where! I may be able to get that cartridge through them, I need at least two, I swiped some out of my unused units. I found one on the...

Here's the Cobra-Matic from the 1953 unit languishing on my porch. It is 10 to 85 rpm, and the entire set has not been played since 1981. It came out of a house that hadn't been occupied since '82. Long story, I'll spare you.

Here is a Panasonic mini cassette unit, and a '67 Magnavox reel to reel. The Panasonic is from around '76 I'm guessing.

Those are "lock down latches" which I think most people didn't use when transporting any of those sets. I have a couple with them. You have the most expensive portable Magnavox made that year, without the radio. I just bought one with the radio. I still want one without.

Do not adjust your monitor, it's antiqued green. It's a four speed Micromatic, with the changer wheel that is binding at the moment. I have to take the platter off and push the wheel back at this time. No way to run a Magnavox!

That's a pretty building, Fono, it reminds me a little of Fort Knox, Kentucky.