Speaking of console Hi-Fis

[kenmore71]

If anyone here would have ANY interest in a 1968 Walnut Hi-Fi with a Packard-Bell tuner amplifier and Girard turntable, I know where there is one that could be HAD for the trouble of picking it up just outside of the Twin Cities Metro.  Here's a picture of it from my childhood.  It's in storage at my brother's house down by Red Wing.  

 

And yes, that is yours truly at about 20 months.

 

[kenmore71]

AND...for the pure GEEK factor here's another pic from about 1978.  Yours truly would have been about 8 here.  I soon grew tired of "The Fonz" record player and went back to the Girard turntable.

 

[firedome]

love the MCM style

of that console... if I were closer I'd give it a good home, it'd look great in my Scandinavian Modern LR!

 

[kb0nes]

Mark,

Do you think its Teak? The style have a very similar appearance to much of the MCM Scandinavian furniture we owned when I was young.

Also I assume this is solid state, by '68 it would likely be.

Personally I have little interest in consoles, but this one looks pretty cool. I'm also not much of a fan of solid state electronics prior to about the late 70's.

Phil

 

[whirlcool]

Probably not teak. Oiled Walnut was all the rage back then.

 

[twintubdexter]

Mark...

...your age is showing (on the positive side) with that "Fonz" record player. If that was me at that age Edison's picture would be on the lid.

 

[ovrphil]

It's really a classic design - very similar to the Zenith tv/phono/radio console my dad bought in the late 1960's, with the same Danish modern support leg architecture. I'm glad I'm not nearby or your brother would gain some space.