Chromacolor's Appliances

[gyrafoam]

Jamie, your collection is great! That is a wonderful refrigerator. I have always been partial to Frigidaire's 1956 line-up because of the fabulous copper trim.

Is that an old GE toaster?

 

[chromacolor]

jasonl-- I'll have to try and get more pix once I have the basement organized. I looked at the posted pix and saw I have a row of Zeniths. The first set is a 1965 Zenith "roundie" then the 1975 Chromacolor 2, and next to it is a 19" 1972 Chromacolor. It has the 4 tube hybrid chassis. I also have a row of sets that can't be seen in the picture. A 1965 Sylvania round screen, A 1967 Magnavox remote console and a 1957 RCA B&W set. Also I have a 1979 19" System 3 with zoom that I watch while on the treadmill. Upstairs I have a 1979 Magnavox console in the office and in my bedroom a 1981 deluxe Zenith System 3 with space phone.

 

[chromacolor]

and yes gyrafoam... my other grandma had a toster like that and it is indeed a GE toaster oven. I think it's from the late 40's.

 

[veg-o-matic]

Cool appliances! And I love that strange little Westinghouse combo!

veg

 

[perc-o-prince]

What a gorgeous kitchen!!!

The fridge is to DIE for!!! It must make you smile every time you walk in.

Enjoy in good health!!!!

Rich

 

[chromacolor]

thanks Rich. I love it as well. Veg.. Good eye! I got that Westinghouse combo off of eBay awhile back. There was a post about it on AK. Not too bad of a unit, altho the turntable doesn't work. Would be neet if I could figure it out and get it going. Westinghouse always made the strangest, yet coolest stuff!

 

[48bencix]

Thanks for the pix

Thanks to Jamie and Greg for sharing the pictures of your collections. It's fun to have free standing appliances like the stove, refer and dishwasher. That way you can rotate what you use. With built-ins it's much harder to change out.

I also love that table with matching vinyl and chrome chairs. Stylish and easy up-keep!

All in all a real comfortable place.

I also love the TV's My oldest is a GE 9" 1978 portable (not porta-color, just after that). I always wanted a round 21" color, actually had one in 1970, but sold it. Those had the best color of any set.

Martin

 

[paulg]

Round tubes had best color.

Many round tube sets had tremendous color rendition due to their sulfide phosphors.
Later, the world went to rare-earth for higher brightness, but sulfide had a bloody-red that was great for fleshtones.
... I learned this from a tube rebuilder some years ago.

 

[tolivac]

round tubes don't always-A pix tube I had the rebuilder replaced the gun BUT NOT the PHOSPHORS-you have to replace those as well-or the picture on the tube screen will have a washed out "pastel" look.Today-I will take a modern set for color reproduction.If the contrast and brightness are adjusted properly the colors are more natural.Too many sets have a bilious" oversaturated colors.Most of the problem is the user has the brightness,chroma,contrast set all the way up.Not good for a nice picture or the sets tube-wether it be CRT or Plasma.At this point nothing beats a CRT type set for overall performance if it is adjusted properly.Oversaturated colors are incorrect.CRT's still give the best "blacks" than any other picture display.I really love my Hitachi RPTV.Its really like you are there when you play the HDDVD or BluRay DVD's thru it.