1950's Admiral TV
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Not a terrible price, but I'll bet you could get it for $50. My repair guy could bring it back to life for about $100, and knobs might not be as hard to find as for less common makes. I don't know if it has a 12" CRT or just has a lot of trim and cabinetry around a 10" one.
That looks like the model I picked up at the same time I got my '50 Admiral consolette with 10" CRT. Both were $5 at a thrift store. I was working for a car guy at the time and told him what I had found. He said to go back and get them and he'd take the bigger one (like the model in the ad). I wonder if he ever did anything with his. Mine sat for almost 25 years, and then the internet helped me find a local electronics guy and for my 50th birthday present to myself I had him re-cap it.
Back when the subject TV was produced, Admirals were right up there with RCA and Zenith as a top quality sets.
That looks like the model I picked up at the same time I got my '50 Admiral consolette with 10" CRT. Both were $5 at a thrift store. I was working for a car guy at the time and told him what I had found. He said to go back and get them and he'd take the bigger one (like the model in the ad). I wonder if he ever did anything with his. Mine sat for almost 25 years, and then the internet helped me find a local electronics guy and for my 50th birthday present to myself I had him re-cap it.
Back when the subject TV was produced, Admirals were right up there with RCA and Zenith as a top quality sets.
In 1972 I bought a used 1953 Admiral console TV that was about the same size as this one in the ad. The grill on the lower part of the cabinet was different and the finish was a bit lighter in color. I paid $30.00 for this TV which I bought from Penngrove Television in Penngrove, Calif. I watched this TV for about 5 years, and I never had any problems with it. I only got rid of it because I wanted a color TV. So I went right back to Penngrove TV and traded the 53’ Admiral for a 65’ 19” Zenith Portable, which I paid an additional $75.00 for along with the trade. Now, no one would even buy a used TV from a TV repair shop, let alone trade another used set for in in the bargain. Times have changed, haven’t they!
Eddie
Eddie
Eddie, I'm surprised that in 1977 they'd even accept a '53 Admiral as a trade-in! That's like, "We'll give you $X on trade for your car, running or not!"
You're right about nobody buying a used TV from a repair shop these days. Mainly because today's TV's are too expensive to fix, and TV repair shops are vanishing from the retail landscape.
You're right about nobody buying a used TV from a repair shop these days. Mainly because today's TV's are too expensive to fix, and TV repair shops are vanishing from the retail landscape.
Ralph,
it was indeed unusal in 1977 for anyone to accept an old TV in trade for yet another used TV, but this was a small Mom and Pop store front in an a very smal town. I’m not certain, but I think that the population of Penngrove, Calif. in 77’ was probably around 500. I used to cut the hair of the owners wife and daughter. When I mentioned that I wanted to get a color set they told me they had a nice used Zenith portable. I believe they wanted $125.00, but I could be wrong on that. Anyway, they gave me $10.00 on trade for the 53’ Admiral, since I had bought it from them and they even delivered the “new” Zenith.
Then as luck would have it, stupid 26 year old me put a vase with flowers on top of the “new” Zenith, and you guessed it, the vase got knocked over, the water poured right down the back of the TV, and it was bye bye color TV! This happened within a month or so after I got the Zenith.
Eddie
it was indeed unusal in 1977 for anyone to accept an old TV in trade for yet another used TV, but this was a small Mom and Pop store front in an a very smal town. I’m not certain, but I think that the population of Penngrove, Calif. in 77’ was probably around 500. I used to cut the hair of the owners wife and daughter. When I mentioned that I wanted to get a color set they told me they had a nice used Zenith portable. I believe they wanted $125.00, but I could be wrong on that. Anyway, they gave me $10.00 on trade for the 53’ Admiral, since I had bought it from them and they even delivered the “new” Zenith.
Then as luck would have it, stupid 26 year old me put a vase with flowers on top of the “new” Zenith, and you guessed it, the vase got knocked over, the water poured right down the back of the TV, and it was bye bye color TV! This happened within a month or so after I got the Zenith.
Eddie
Like them or not, sometimes artificial flowers (nod to Bobby Darin) make sense!
