I saw this 1951 Zenith TV-combo at the sale I stopped at Friday - where I bought all the fun laundry products - and saw this beautiful set. I took Skyler back on Saturday afternoon to check out the vintage toys and we looked at the set again, he remembered it was like Robert's and thought we should take it home. It had been haunting me since seeing it on Friday so I put a 1/2 price bid on it. I was the only bidder so Jamie (chromacolor) and I went to pick it up today. We had to literally carry it out of the basement, around a corner stair landing and up the steps. I thought poor Jamie was going to have a stroke but one step at a time, we made it to the kitchen where I put it on my Escalara dolly and got it out of the house. We lifted up to the tailgate of my Honda Element and found that the back opening was 1/2" too short - it wasn't going in. A very nice lady stopped and offered a couple of suggestions which wouldn't work and then said she only lived a few houses away and since my house was only about a mile from the sale, she would get her husband's truck and bring it over. What an amazingly nice thing to do for a stranger - Jamie and I were stunned! Once we got it home, we used the dolly again to get it downstairs - I'm used to 400 pound boxes around here so this wasn't any trouble at all. I gave it a bath and little polish and it's just beautiful!
