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Motorola calls it the "bat wing" logo. General Electric calls their logo the "meatball" logo.

Does anyone recall the 1960's TV ads for Motorola stereos?
It was in a female voice and after the ad went:
MOTOROOOLA STEEREOOOO
I recalled that as soon as I saw this thread: New in Box!
WOW--What a great one of a kind find! Congratulations Mark!
BTW The Magnavox $5,000.00 console stereo was called the "Concert Grand" (and made right here in Fort Wayne)

Here is a couple pix of my 1965 Magnavox console. TOL,with two 15 inch woofers,two treble horns,with 100 watt amp,but not the Concert Grand.
 
Interior view

I play this LOUD every morning as I get ready for work. It shakes the floor! Love that quality console stereo BASS!
 
Beautiful!

Hi Rick! Yes !!! It was the Concert Grand. Just couldn't think of it. You have a beautiful stereo there. I think the Mororola is a modern style so far as I could see sice I didn't take it all the way out of the box. Mark
 
There was a Magnavox console stereo with a Micromatic turntable at the same house I bought my '83 Zenith from. Was in nice shape and used only slightly; the lady had it connected to 2 speakers in the living room and hallway. There was a good chance that it still worked as well. The only thing was I didn't really have a place to put it! Looking back, I sure wish I grabbed it!
 
Magnavox Console

Parents had the 1974 version of that magnavox console when I was a tyke.

Not shown in the above pics, but was in the unit I knew..
On the left side of the slide-to-open top was a record well. If you were born at or after 1981, ask someone older what "record" means! LOL)

In the LP/Record/vinyl well (OK OK its what we call the predecessor of a compact disk.. the pressure!! LOL) sat the optional tape player.

Of course, my parents got the 8-track player (continuous loop) as opposed to the cassette player. This was of course to have 8-tracks in the car.

We kiddies wanted a cassette player/recorder to make tapes of our records to preserve them. Think about it steel stylus (needle) making physical contact with a a vinyl disk. How long did those records last? LOL

The unit had a 2-4 button which altered the function of the "exterior" speaker button. when on "4" it was for the then-cool quadrophonic sound. On "2" you could have two set of speakers in two rooms.

We had built-in speakers in the basment ceiling. You could select the built-in speakers and/or the remote ones.

Well when the parental untis were out.. the whole house was 'jammin to 92.3 FM WKTU diso/dance music.

Then the station went off the air.

The city rejoiced when it came back on 103.5 FM and traded frequencies with a CT station. (CT is 10 feet away here)

...Night fever, night fever....

http://www.ktu.com/main.html
 
Rick,

My inlaws had that same Magnavox when I started datining my wife in 1979. THe turntable had problems so in 1982 they bought a Zenith console and they stoill have it. THe family I babysat for had a Magnavox anf I loved the deep bass sound. I could never crank it up because they lived in a townhouse the next door neighbor would complain. I know nothing today can compete with them. My dad was in the Army and stationed in Munich Germany and we had a Grundig Majestic while I was growing up, it was a console Hi-Fi, not stereo yet. It had a nice sound, It had four 4" square tweeters and a big 12" woofer. and AM/FM and shortwave bands on the radio. I would love to have that or the inlaws magnavox now.

Mike
 
Found all the orignal paperwork,inc. this recipt

Thank you for the nice comments about old Maggy. It has been here since my grandparents bought it in 1965. This one was on year end close out,according to the sales information,plus they got $60.00 credit for a trade in.(whatever that was???) There must have been a large mark up on these high end consoles. Almost everyone had one,or knew someone that had one(or wished they had one,so we own them today) in the 1950's and 1960's.
I always wanted to crank this one up when I was a kid too,but was never allowed to touch it. I am making up for that these days,as I crank it up every morning!! LOUD!! LOL!
 
Thanks for the fun thought!!!

In 1967, my parents bought an RCA Console TV. It was not all TOL like yours above, it had the record player, AM and FM, I believe. Two speakers built in, and a 25" color screen.

Just before that console TV purchase, my sister was married. (One income household, hmmmm.....) The family story still resonates that she was so mad at Mom and Dad for getting color TV just after she moved out -- she didn't speak to Mom and Dad for like 2 months!

Tense then, I suppose, but hysterical now!

John
 
$435

my parents Maytag washer was around $250 in 1965 which was said to be a week's pay (low to mid-range pay scale).

Can't remember but why does model nuber A206 ring a bell. The console was center timer and had a bluish-turquoise tint.

One cycle on timer, delciate speed was a buton.
three water temps
three? water levels

With two adults and two toddlers, they WAITED for the cash to buy a dryer. (Credit was the devil back then, LOL)
 
Color TV

Ready for this? We got color TV in 1973/74.

(My father was so cheap he was tighter than a clam's A@@!)

It was a SONY Trinitron with those push-buttons that were each individually tuned (not electronic).

OOOH baby... 19 inches diagonally... WOW LOL
Sign along kiddies "Hey Big Spender...." LOL

Still we were THRILLED to have it.
 
opening the box

Here I am opening the box. There was a black bag that had two microphones in it, an empty tape reel, and an unopened box of reel tape!
 
Also, Don't forget!!!

Also, don't forget to take a look at the "Imperial" site for some new goodies that we found yesterday!!! MARK, STEVE, GARY, & Roanoke ROBERT (aka. Lady Kenmore)
 

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