classiccaprice
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My 1975 Zenith set... Very mod with the white base
My 'new' tv from 1960 or 1961
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classiccaprice
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1962 Magnavox console. I can get lit raster, but it needs a recap too. I don't know why the picture uploaded upside down.
classiccaprice
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Lit raster on the Magnavox. Someone broke the cover off the back of the picture tube and the key on the tube itself. It is only for the grace of god that it still works. Anyone have a tube cap lying around for one of these?
Your 63 Zenith looks just like the one that was in my parents living room. I bought one like your 81. I remember it said Chromacolor under the logo.
twintubdexter
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Another one of my department store stories...
hydralique...
The awful security people we had at the San Francisco Emporium (ex-gestapo I'm certain) did catch a lady walking a portable TV between her legs under a coat and out the Market Street doors. Even more brazen were the 2 guys wearing fake "Magnavox Service" coats who got clean away with a huge Magnavox stereo theatre, a pricey model with tambour doors called the Aegean. The department was on the third floor and the store's rear elevators opened onto the sales floor. The guys told the salespeople they were taking the set out for service...even though the store had it's own television service department in one of the service buildings. They wheeled the TV into one of the elevators (things like that were never allowed in a passenger elevator) and out the first floor back doors it went never to be seen again.
we called those green street cars, already antiques when I arrived, roach coaches
hydralique...
The awful security people we had at the San Francisco Emporium (ex-gestapo I'm certain) did catch a lady walking a portable TV between her legs under a coat and out the Market Street doors. Even more brazen were the 2 guys wearing fake "Magnavox Service" coats who got clean away with a huge Magnavox stereo theatre, a pricey model with tambour doors called the Aegean. The department was on the third floor and the store's rear elevators opened onto the sales floor. The guys told the salespeople they were taking the set out for service...even though the store had it's own television service department in one of the service buildings. They wheeled the TV into one of the elevators (things like that were never allowed in a passenger elevator) and out the first floor back doors it went never to be seen again.
we called those green street cars, already antiques when I arrived, roach coaches
twintub . . .
Guess my urban legend has some truth in it! Great story about the "Magnavox" service guys, I wonder how many stores got hit by that ruse.
As an architect I always associate the term "roach coach" with those mobile food trucks that rotate around to various construction sites and block narrow roads in pricey hillside areas, lol.
Guess my urban legend has some truth in it! Great story about the "Magnavox" service guys, I wonder how many stores got hit by that ruse.
As an architect I always associate the term "roach coach" with those mobile food trucks that rotate around to various construction sites and block narrow roads in pricey hillside areas, lol.
Roach Coach Trolleys
Joe, you'll be horrified to learn that SF Muni has a fleet of restored roach coaches running up and down Market Street past the old Emporium (now Bloomingdale's), both in the original green & cream paint scheme as well as vintage schemes from the various transit agencies other cars previously belonged to.
I remember back when Muni was phasing out these cars, one friend who lived in The City shared how overjoyed he would be when the last one of them would be crushed into a ball.
Alan, I love that Danish modern Admiral, particularly the gold threaded speaker panels.
Joe, you'll be horrified to learn that SF Muni has a fleet of restored roach coaches running up and down Market Street past the old Emporium (now Bloomingdale's), both in the original green & cream paint scheme as well as vintage schemes from the various transit agencies other cars previously belonged to.
I remember back when Muni was phasing out these cars, one friend who lived in The City shared how overjoyed he would be when the last one of them would be crushed into a ball.
Alan, I love that Danish modern Admiral, particularly the gold threaded speaker panels.
philr
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Will, I'd like to find one similar to your white 1975 with the space command.
Here's one exactly like I'd like to find! From a French Canadian music video (I'm not sure if it can be watched in the US...).
Here's the link:
And a still from the video in case it doesn't work.
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Here's one exactly like I'd like to find! From a French Canadian music video (I'm not sure if it can be watched in the US...).
Here's the link:
And a still from the video in case it doesn't work.
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classiccaprice
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Same set.... Though yours looks like the tabletop version, My only space command is the 1969. It really is a beautiful cabinet.
The 1975 was in the movie "Milk." I don't have the space, nor will I in the near future, but for "later sets" I would love the one in the link from about 1978 and one more which will have to go in the next post
The 1975 was in the movie "Milk." I don't have the space, nor will I in the near future, but for "later sets" I would love the one in the link from about 1978 and one more which will have to go in the next post
classiccaprice
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And the bigger version of the set you like Phil.
whirlcool
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That photo of the 63' Zenith set is great. That color sure was vivid! Back in the 60's that particular model set was the first color set for a lot of families. Zenith must have sold a few tons of those.
I've also noticed in your pictures that you seem to be very good at setting the picture up correctly with brightness, contrast & color & Hue. I can't tell you how many times I have been in homes where the faces are wicked witch green and off on other settings. The people just watched the sets as they were. They thought that as long as something was in color it must be ok.
I've also noticed in your pictures that you seem to be very good at setting the picture up correctly with brightness, contrast & color & Hue. I can't tell you how many times I have been in homes where the faces are wicked witch green and off on other settings. The people just watched the sets as they were. They thought that as long as something was in color it must be ok.
OK Justin
Here's the vintage Zenith black and white in all of its neglected glory. It's definitely seen better days, but there's still hope for it. Would anyone here happen to know what year this would have been built?
Here's the vintage Zenith black and white in all of its neglected glory. It's definitely seen better days, but there's still hope for it. Would anyone here happen to know what year this would have been built?
classiccaprice
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1956-ish.
Also, just found out the set this thread is about is is a 1962!
Also, just found out the set this thread is about is is a 1962!
whirlcool
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Funny Neighbors
Just a funny note about this subject.
We had a neighbor who bought her first color television around 1964 or so. It was a Zenith roundie. While I was over at her house with my mother I noticed that she had a 19" Zenith B&W set on top of the color set. I asked her if her color set was broken. She said "no, it works just fine." So being the inquisitive teen I was I asked her why she had a B&W set on top of her color set. The answer?
"I only watch shows that are in color on the color TV. If the show is in B&W I watch it on the B&W television." I told her that the color set will also work on the B&W shows. The answer "I know that, but I don't want to use all the color up watching B&W shows!". She actually thought that color televisions only had a certain amount of "color" inside of them and that you could use it all up! This was around 1966 or so.
Just a funny note about this subject.
We had a neighbor who bought her first color television around 1964 or so. It was a Zenith roundie. While I was over at her house with my mother I noticed that she had a 19" Zenith B&W set on top of the color set. I asked her if her color set was broken. She said "no, it works just fine." So being the inquisitive teen I was I asked her why she had a B&W set on top of her color set. The answer?
"I only watch shows that are in color on the color TV. If the show is in B&W I watch it on the B&W television." I told her that the color set will also work on the B&W shows. The answer "I know that, but I don't want to use all the color up watching B&W shows!". She actually thought that color televisions only had a certain amount of "color" inside of them and that you could use it all up! This was around 1966 or so.
twintubdexter
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Allen,
Now that's a funny story. Slightly off subject (my speciality)...when LCD watches were a new thing and the display went out due to a dead battery, customers would come in for a bottle of "liquid crystal."
Now that's a funny story. Slightly off subject (my speciality)...when LCD watches were a new thing and the display went out due to a dead battery, customers would come in for a bottle of "liquid crystal."
whirlcool
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Liquid Crystal..... now that's equally as good!
As I mentioned earlier, I've been in a lot of homes in the 60's & early 70's where the color television is not adjusted properly for best picture and the people just live with it as is. But I haven't seen a maladjusted set in years and years. So somewhere along the way did television manufacturers put in some kind of "auto-color" system that automatically adjusts the set for best picture?
In fact the Sony WEGA 36" CRT television we bought had the settings properly set right out of the box, and in the 12 years we've owned it we have never touched any of the color/hue contrast/brightness controls at all.
As I mentioned earlier, I've been in a lot of homes in the 60's & early 70's where the color television is not adjusted properly for best picture and the people just live with it as is. But I haven't seen a maladjusted set in years and years. So somewhere along the way did television manufacturers put in some kind of "auto-color" system that automatically adjusts the set for best picture?
In fact the Sony WEGA 36" CRT television we bought had the settings properly set right out of the box, and in the 12 years we've owned it we have never touched any of the color/hue contrast/brightness controls at all.
