Vintage Appliance Advertisements: Part Thirty-one

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Du Mont 1945

 

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Coolerator 1953

 

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Easy 1928

 

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Admiral 1968

 

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General Electric 1941

 

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General Electric 1958

 

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Hardwick 1980

 

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Hoover 1953

 

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Kelvinator 1967

 

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Du Mont 1945
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I wonder how large the screen was on this 1945 Dumont TV? From the photo in the ad it would appear to be at least 17” which would have been pretty big for the very early days of TV.

Most of the photos of the TV’s from the late 40’s look like the screens were only about 9” to 12”. The first TV I remember my family having was a Philco table model that sat on a table that swiveled and the screen probably was only about 15” if that big. I believe that my parents got it in late ‘51 or early ‘52.

I have a vague recollection of watching the Colgate Comedy Hour on that TV in about 1953. When we got a new RCA console TV in 1956 the old Philco went into my brother’s and my bedroom.

I when it went on the fritz I used to take the tubes out, mark them with numbered masking tape and also the sockets that they came out of and Mom would take me to Safeway where they had a tube tester and sold replacement tubes and I’d test the tubes in order to get the old Philco up and running again.

Eddie