veg's crap, chapter 2: Electronics

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Love the pictures of the older equipment here-A friend of mine from long ago had a Zenith "round jug" TV like Laura's sister.I found an RCA version sort of like her in a dumpster behind a TV repair store-rescued it-and replaced some tubes and caps-was OK.Sadly it got stolen later.
Love the looks of "Marylon" the little Sears Hi-Fi console. Bet she does sound nice.Like all those Philco "Predicta" TV's.
 
Versatronic--

I know next to nothing about you, but I want to marry you. (or whatever). I LOVE Philco Predicta's, but not the reproduction ones.

Lawrence/Maytagbear
 
Mosaics

They reside right now in the garage. It wouldn't be a pretty picture, along with a ton of other stuff for eBay.

Fun as they are, they don't quite go with the house. My nephew will give give them a good home.
 
Wow

I hate to see what would have happened it I had posted a picture of my Teleavia. Even though I'm not gay, I promise to marry and attempt to impregnate any human willing to show up at my house this weekend and clean out the refrigerator sitting in my kitchen.
 
Versa.....

Did you really think you could sneak in that pic of the Heywood Wakefield end table without me noticing? Except for the kids' room, my whole HOUSE is Wakefield!

One of my favorite stories--I used to work with a bunch of real feminists, "feminazi's" would be a good word. So I liked to rattle their cages. We would be on break and I would say "My wife doesn't let me in the house with anything but Wakefield". That would get some approvals from them--not about the furniture but about how a guy might do the furniture shopping, and how that was fair. Then I would let the beam down on them--"And I don't let her out of the kitchen until she's cooked me three squares a day, and they better be right!" their temporary appreciation would quickly turn to scorn.

Now, on these TVs. Versa, is your pedastal Predicta referred to as the "Barber Pole"? I love it. I have the same model as your smaller unit but in the dark mahogany. I know Lawrence does not like these, but we do have a new Predicta also and I love it. Those people were so cool, they let us pay small sums well over a year and when it was paid for, the guy called me and spend 1/2 hour going over how to exactly take it out of shipping and set it up. Awesome. We got it in tuxedo black, as per one of my wife's very few demands.

One question though...what the heck is a Teleavia???!!!
 
One other Predicta note

The sickest one of all was the model that had the tuner that sat next to your couch. A super long fat ribbon cable---I am not kidding you--supposedly went under your throw rug and attached to the seperate Predicta tube. Talk about wild.

About 15 years ago there was one in an antique store in San Diego. I should have got it then!
 
Wakefield

Kevin, yes, the nickname for this Predicta model is the barber pole or gas pump model. It came in a smaller size as well, available in blonde or mahogany. There is also a different model that people refer to as the danish modern model. That only was available in a mahagany/walnut color to match your danish modern furnature. The model you're referring to is called the Tandem. Which, doesn't need a TV stand either since the bottom is on legs and you can put the screen anyway you want, even in a different room. I was offered one last than a year ago in working condition but I really don't have a place for another tv. I have three now, the barber pole, the holiday, and a Siesta. The Siesta can be since in another thread.

The Teleavia was a french tv whose head swiveled like the Predicta. It's monstrously big. It sits in my basement right now because I have no place to put it until I refinish my basement. I'll try to get a picture of it at lunch time. It sits in the French museum of art as a design acheivement. The link will take you to a web page where you can see one. The picture won't give you a feel for the size of the thing.

The wakefield table is waiting to get moved into my home "office" to be used as a printer/scanner stand. That's my guest bedroom in the picture or what I refer to as "The blue room" and has a wakefield Encore bedroom set. My bedroom or what I refer to as "The pink room" has a wakefield Kohinoor bedroom set. I found the set a few months back in a local used furnature store. The Konhinoor sets are pretty rare and especially in good conditon. I was lucky.

There are two pieces of wakefield that I really want for my place and I'm still on the hunt. I have a champagne corner table being shipped now and might even be sitting on my front porch as I type this. So, if's it's in good shape, I scratch that off the list and just need two more pieces...until I refinish my basement that is.

http://www.tvhistory.tv/1957-Teleavia.htm
 
Mike.

You may regret your words.

I was/am a professional cleaner with a germ-freak mother and a Virgo sense of purity / cleanliness / order and a scorpionic drive.

Your fridge will look better than the day it was removed form the carton.

See you soon.

LOL ROFL LMAO.
 
Mike:

Now just one second there mister.

You get a clean fridge and you get to uh you know
WIFM? (what's in it for me?)

BETTER YOU DON'T ANSWER THAT ONE. LOL
 
Oh good lord!

That Teleavia is cool.

Wakefield--I am typing to you now on a HW student desk, believe it or not. I use it as a "return"!

I think our best piece is the rare Room Divider M504/505 unit. This one we bought already refinished. In the old house it really was used to break up the hall from the living room, here it is against the wall.

The other three rarer pieces we have is a KING headboard, a record cabinet I got at a garage sale in Riverside for $60 (and I had the gall to talk the guy down from $75) and we are waiting right now to get the Blanket Chest.

Our bedroom set is Kohinoor too! Awesome, do send pics!
 
Wakefield

I'm typing on a full size wakefield desk at this moment. The table you so keenly spotted will end up next to this in the near future, replacing a pretty nice Lane piece in it's own right.

Before anyone offers to come here and clean my fridge, find a thread called "thanks" and see what you're up against.

I borrowed this camera and the battery is now dead, so no pics of the teleavia.

Your wakefield collection sounds fantastic. I need a room divider so bad to finish my bedroom off. I'll use it as an entertainment center. I had a chance to get it locally here a couple of years ago, in perfect condition, and I didn't. I'm still kicking myself. Is the blanket chest the sculptura one?
 
A non-blonde

We all love blondes, but how about this brown console stereo in my sun room shown above? Could you cut it some slack for not going into the bleach? For the time period, it has some pretty high end components. One version of this came with a TV as well, but this one has LP storage in that section. And there's a bar on the top. Open it up, a light comes on, has a mirrored back. Fix yourself a drink and listen to some Martin Denny.

Kevin, here's the last pic I took before the camera died. The same place where I found these had the vanity as well, whose design is killer, but I didn't have a place for it. You can't see the bed in the pic, but it included the bed which is in the best shape of any of the pieces, although they are all in pretty dang nice shape.
 
Back off, Steve! I saw him first. LOL 'Sides, you're already married. Ain't gonna let a little dirt stand between me and, uhm, getting...er...hmph.
Dang, I just hate being good.

Now, Mike. That pink clock radio in your pink bedroom? The exquisite taste? Are you sure you're not gay? Maybe just a little? Please...?
(Just kidding. Be not offended.)

And by the way, I love that clock radio. What kind is it? I've discovered that Arvin (of all brands) had some of the coolest designs ever.

Oh, and don't forget to post a picture of YOURSELF in the "Beauty Contest" thread. We all like to put a face with the name.

veg, who's packing the Fantastik right now...
 
Speaking of pink rooms.....

When we moved in here, the room set for my office had been painted...ceiling included, with that technique where the paint has been put on in such a way that is almost looks like wallpaper. The overall look is pink, but when you look at it is is mottled with grey and blue and white--almost a pinkish marbleing effect.

Of course, the first thing I thought is that has got to go. But now being in here a few months, a find that the color is very relaxing and pleasant. So what does one do now?

Oh, probably just procrastinate and let it be!!!
 
Versa...is this the vanity?

There were a few. This is ours.

The mirror has yet to be put back on since we moved (where DID those screws go).

To the right is an HW corner table, and a reproduction French-made Crosley Bluebird Radio.

And, ahem, yes, that is lunch as well as my decapitated Charlie McCarthy in the reflection---how embarrassing.
 
Popcorn chicken, Charlie McCarthy AND cartoons. Yeppers, Kev, we have to get together. I'll bring my Motorific set.

Are you an Edgar Bergen/Charlie McCarthy fan? I am. Years ago I couldn't stand Charlie then one day I decided to actually pay attention and discovered he was hysterical. I used to have the Juro dummy like your head, but left it when we moved. Had Mortimer, too. I still have my CMcC Paint book, knockoff plaster statue, and cardboard dummy, courtesy the good folks at Chase & Sanborn. It'd take me a while to find it, mind you, but I'm sure it's around her somewhere.

Now Mike--I hope I haven't scared you off. I'm harmless, really. Ask anyone. I notice your house has interesting walls. Is it paneling? And if so, what's it made of? And do my eyes deceive me, or is that a built-in chest of drawers behind the Predicta barberpole? We need more pics! Every one is better than the last!

You too, Kev. And Pete. You three have the kind of house and furnishings I've always drooled over.

veg
 
Pink

I never should have posted a picture of my pink bedroom...

When I first moved in, I felt a little funny sleeping in a pink bedroom and didn't mention it to my friends. Now, I don't even think about it. I forgot that some people might wonder. It's a fifties house. And pink was a popular color at the time. My garage door even has pink on it as does my front door. I have a pink bathroom. It didn't mean you were gay in 1957. The room are all popular fifties-type pastel colors of the time. As I've stated on this site before, I feel a sense of duty to preserve this place and that means leaving it in its original state and the master bedroom is pink. This place has three bedrooms and they are all paneled with real wood that is deeply textures and they painted the wood in such a way to produce a marbel effect. And you know, the pink marbel effect looks really quite elegant in person. There's a green bedroom with this marbel effect and the blue one. Each bedroom does have built-in drawers and a compartment above the drawers. In the pink bedroom, they used the compartment for their TV. It has the antenna hook-up and an electrical outlet inside the compartment. That one picture above of the table top predicta shows the compartment. And the drawers that pull out of the wall in the master bedroom are so deep you would not belive it. You could store a body in one of the drawers.

That's a Philco radio in the background. Works great but the snooze alarm got a bit funky and I can't count on it, so when the radio alarm comes on, I get out of bed and walk over to shut it off. I have quite a few radios that I picked up at flea markets through the years. Some worked great when I got them home, and some didn't and ended up in storage.

Kevin, yea, that's the vanity. Very cool. I've seen other Kohinoor pieces that are spectacular. You know, my dresser came with a blonde wood open jewelry box inside and it sure looks to be a part of the unit. I'd love to see a pick of your blanket chest when you get it. I just received a new corner table in the mail. I didn't get a chance to open the box yet to check out the condition.

So, can't a straight guy appreciate good design and styling?
 
Like I said before...

I find pink to be very restful. You know how different colors have different "wavelengths"...you would not want to work in a super solid bright red room, might make you edgy, at least me. I find the color of the sky, sky blue, extremely pleasant and relaxing too. The marbleing of those two colors is just a good "vibe", as foolish as that sounds.

What I don't go for is the color schemes pronounced "proper" and "today" on shows from HGTV, for example. Things like purple on one wall, gold on the next and rust in the adjoining hallway. Yech.

More Heywood fun. My wife got for me on Ebay a change holder, I forget which piece it came in. I get the thing, and the finish on it was lousy, to me, it looked like a fake that someone created in their garage. I fired off a letter to the seller saying I think this was a trash knock off. He swore to me that it was real. So I take it to my HW expert and guess what, it is real. They were one of the few pieces from HW that were not well done as they were supposed to be inside a drawer. I had to write to the guy and totally apologize.

The blanket chest is due in here in a few months, it is being refinished. That and two new (vintage) lamps, all of which my wife found and picked out, I don't even know what the chest or the lamps look like! Will post pics when they come.
 
More Heywood

Well, I put some fresh batteries in the camera.

Here are two pictures of some of my wakefield. I'd love to see pics of your stuff as well.

First pic shows a buffet. Even though it's technically for a kitchen or dining room, it works everywhere and anywhere, even in a bedroom. It's one of the things I love about wakefield. The buffet color is "platinum". You don't see a lot of platinum stuff. I prefer champagne for this room, but you have to do with what you can find. There is also a wheat corner table to the left that is kind of hidden by the bird chair. As I said, just got one in champagne, but haven't opened the box yet.
 
China Cabinet

By the way, I have two lamps that have blonde wood on them and also have pink in them. If you don't like those lamps your wife presents, let me know. These would be perfect on a wakefield table or chest of drawers. Budior size and very tasteful. Maybe we can trade.

Alright, so here is a china cabinet. This thing is in incredibly immaculate condition. This is champagne and that stain works best in this room.
 
Ok, don't tell me...

That you have Russel Wright glassware in your china cabinet! Or are those another designer...nice. Plus, your shadow box rocks.

Here is my buffet/cabinet, M509 on an M593. Notice the Russel Wright pitcher and tumbler set in the lower left. Pyrex mixing bowls like my mom had growing up (she still has them!), part of the Franciscan Starburst collection, and some misc. Fiesta pieces.
 
You're right about HW flexibility

I love it anywhere. Here is a Secretary M389 W "Desk Chest" that we were using in Kim's old office but in the new place, it serves in the dining room to help dinner service.
 
I finally have a dining room...

big enough to hold the table with both leaves in, and 6 chairs. If you want to get cozy and don't mind the controversial "wishbone" legs, you can seat 8 or ouch! 10 people at the table.
 

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