Here's a Seville 21
Alan: The photo below is the only one I can find of a
Seville 21. It was a modernist design in red mahogany. The way we got ours was, my second cousin owned a Western Auto in Carrollton, GA, and like many small-town owners, did the servicing of the sets he sold. Occasionally, he would run into a set that stumped him, and my dad - who was far and away the best tech in Atlanta - would go down and lend him a hand. <br
Sometime around '62, he ran into trouble with a backlog of sets he couldn't fix, and asked Dad to help, which Dad did. In gratitude, he asked Dad if he could use another stumper - an RCA colour set he'd taken on trade-in and which No. Body. had ever been able to get working properly. Dad said yes, we loaded it up, and we took it home. In '62, a colour set would not have really been affordable for us, even though Dad worked on them every day. <br
At any rate, we got it home, and
oy, did that thing look strange sitting surrounded by Mom's maple Early American furniture! Dad got to work on it, and found it was every bit as troublesome as advertised; it took a long time to get the set reliable. A new picture tube was involved at some point. But once he got it settled down, it served us for years <br
There's a funny story about me and that
Seville; a colour set was a Big. Honking. Deal. in '62, and of course, the instant I got to school, I bragged about it. You have to understand that this school was full of kids from blue-collar and minor white-collar families; we all lived in clean, tidy up-to-date homes, but very few people in that place and time had dishwashers, air conditioning or other such luxuries. My teacher, the evil and dread Mrs. Price, got wind of my boast, promptly decided I was telling tall tales, and called my mother to let her know All About It. There was nothing that made Mrs. Price happier than calling parents with tidings that guaranteed a kid a whipping; there was hardly a set of glutes in Joseph P. Humphries Elementary that had not felt the sting of the woman's epic wrath, however indirectly <br
Imagine the old witch's amazement when Mom told her that yes, we had a colour set now, and that she was welcome to drop by and watch a bit of Andy Williams or something with us! In 1962, kids did not often win a battle with a teacher fair and square (and I paid for it later, big-time, but that's not a story fit for the delicate ears of this group). <br
Anyway, the
Seville 21 is in the grouping below, along with its base-model sibling, the
Havilland 21, which was the same cabinet without the cant-legged base.
