Now THIS Is A Televison - Vintage Zenith

[launderess]

Almost just like the console big, huge piece of furniture we had in the living room growing up.

Oh the fun watching Carol Burnett and other great TV shows.

They don't make them like this anymore!

http://harrisburg.craigslist.org/app/1432436358.html

 

[frigilux]

My age is showing: 1987 doesn't seem vintage to me, LOL!

As cool as the old console TV's are---we had one when I was a teen in the early 1970's---I'm grateful that a new 32-inch LCD widescreen TV can easily be picked up and moved on a whim.

 

[jasonl]

Habitat

Shit load of 'em at the Habitat for Humanity here. Mostly late 80s consoles and a bunch of black boxes. Most are Zeniths. I guess they got chunked when digital tv got switched over.

There's also a early 90s GE Filter Flo (with filter pan) at H4H. If life wasn't in the way, I'd get it.

This seems to be a Magnavox/Zenith/GE town so I'm in good company here.

 

[qsd-dan]

That TV looks older than 1987 to me.

 

[danemodsandy]

Vintage?

1987 was last week.

Or so it seems. ;-)

 

[frigilux]

I'm with you on that one, Sandy!

I recently pulled out a portable cassette player/recorder in front of a 5th grader, who looked at it--and the cassette tape--quizzically, and said, "What is THAT!?"

 

[panthera]

I always thought,

Once a technology supersedes an older technology in electronics, the older technology became automatically 'vintage'?

I don't think we can apply the same logic to consumer electronics as to our beloved household appliances.

Besides, Zenith by 1987 had long since stopped innovating and that chassis is basically the same as everything else they had built since the system³ in, when, 1978? 1979?

Zenith had some good woodworking going for a very long time. I still get into fights in my family for junking the 1960 cherrywood console...

 

[westingman123]

speaking of age showing...

I was humming the old "I'm so glad we had this time together..." ditty at work last week. (yes, I'm one of those annoying humming people) One of our new girls, 18 or 19, said "What is THAT?". I told her it was from the Carol Burnett show and, of course, she said "WHO?". Aren't all the great old shows on cable now? I aged 20 years in that moment. LOL