Introducing the new 1967 "Hucmpy"! Da!

[cfz2882]

color TV at american exhibit

i have heard the russians were especially fascinated with color TVs demonstrated at the US exhibit LOL

 

[philr]

This makes me think about this 1967 document...

 

[philr]

A page showing the GM Technical Center.

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[philr]

This document was for an exhibition in Kiev.

 

[philr]

More GM products... And among them Flair ranges.

 

[philr]

Finally, one showing a '67 Riviera almost like mine! (the picture was reversed so it shows the steering and emblem on the hood the wrong side!)

 

[mickeyd]

Louis,

My belly can't stopppit wigglink.

 

Tankee

 

All those consonants. No wonder they drank so much wodka: they're jaws were jammed.

 

Love,

 

Hucmpy

 

[jetcone]

Phil

What a cool brochure, I love that drafting room! Those windows are huge, it would make the room restful; and the daylight must have been a real pleasure to work under!

Today they are all on monitors in closer quarters so they can see those monitors, I bet.

 

 

I must photo the State Refrigerator Manual and put that up.

 

 

 

[jetcone]

OMG

Cowboys in Moscow! Get her!!

 

 

 

[jetcone]

KGB checks buuks from Amerika

Before Komrade is allowed to read!

 

 

[foraloysius]

Oooh!

Lookz like zere vere lotz of traitorz! Including Hamburgerski! I bet it were hiz Amerkanski jeans in Ruschka wasmachinska.

 

[danemodsandy]

Soviet Color TV:

"i have heard the russians were especially fascinated with color TVs demonstrated at the US exhibit"

They only had to wait a few years - the USSR got its first color broadcasts on October 1, 1967, just a few months after the U.K. launched color service in July of that year. There had been experimental stuff going on for quite a few years prior to that. It took color a long time to catch on in the USSR; sets were expensive and as with everything else, high-ranking party officials got top priority.

Another problem was that Soviet TVs had quite a tendency to explode. For a while there, the majority of USSR household fires were caused by television fires and explosions.

 

[danemodsandy]

The American Exhibition Building

Just for grins:

 

[westyslantfront]

Hi Jon Charles,

 

    Thank you for posting cyrillic brochures. I am 1/4 white Russian. My grandmother came from St. Petersburg BEFORE the revolution. My father spoke Russian and was raised in the Russian Orthodox Church. After my parents married, my mother's Massachusetts background predominated and we are all Episcopalian.  I have always wondered what Russian would have been like if there had been no revolution. What kind of washers would they have had? I am fascinated by Russia and someday hope to go. And here is a link to a Russian Twin Tub.

 

Ross

 

 

 

 

 

 

Ross

http://www.automaticwasher.org/cgi-bin/TD/TD-VIEWTHREAD.cgi?36185

 

[whirlcool]

A good friend of ours from Britain that lives here married a Russian woman. She looks like she should be from Sweden, tall blonde blue eyed. She came to the US after they were married.

What did she do before the CCCP crashed? She was an aircraft designer at the Tupolev design center. When she came here she knew almost no english, 6 months later she was conversing at the conversational level. Just amazing. She enrolled at U of H and her first semester got straight A's, even in a Calculus class. Her teacher asked her how she was doing so well. She told him that the stuff he is teaching is taught in the second year of high school in Russia.

The standard of living in Russia, especially the big cities is rapidly closing in on the standard of living we enjoy here in the USA. A lot of American companies are scrambling to place product in Russia.

If nobody else can get those images translated, I probably can.

 

[jetcone]

oo Allen

I'd like to meet her! I know Russian schools and Bulgarian schools press Math early and often and they teach it well too.
In 1969 my Dad gave a lecture at the Academy of Science in Moscow. In return his host Mazurin was invited to return to here for a lecture and tour. He was coming with his wife and son ,but a week before a high level Scientist defected to the west and so we were informed he would be coming with two "scientists" instead of his family. They all stayed with us and the "scientists" weren't really scientists and dropped the pretense after two days at breakfast. Suddenly with out warning they were speaking perfect english when they asked my mother to "pass the pancakes'! And told her how "comfortable the chairs were"!

They were along to make sure Mazurin would be easily returning to the Soviet Union.

Ross, take a peek at my FB page today, you might enjoy reading up on some Russian history I garnered from Wikipedia and Russiapedia!

 

[supersuds]

Packard and Russia

Apparently it is a myth that Packard supplied their 1942 dies to the Russians. A few years ago the Packard Cormorant magazine (the club publication, I've been a member since 1977) ran an article by a Finnish collector who was able to directly compare a '42 Packard with a ZIS limousine and found that the dimensions, such as the radiuses of the curves, were different. Clearly the Russians copied the general design closely, so much so that differences are not obvious to the naked eye. But the story is just too good to go away.

 

[danemodsandy]

John:

I've heard the story debunked before, and there are still people who disagree with the debunking. Do you have any links you could point us to for more info on this?

P.S.: My ultimate fantasy car is a '42 Super 8 Custom One-Eighty LeBaron limousine with the factory air. Don't want much, do I?

 

[danemodsandy]

One-Eighty Limousine:

In this photo, Milady is evidently being driven around the east wing of her Palm Beach estate to save wear and tear on her Delman sling-back pumps....

 

[supersuds]

Lol, Sandy, the only online references I could find go back to magazine articles, so I scanned a piece from the Cormorant, Spring 2004, by George Hamlin, a distinguished Packard collector and historian. It's been a long time since I scanned anything and I no longer know what I'm doing, but here goes.