This one is too much as well for Westinghouse Television Sets. Betty forgets to mention that before you plug in your new High-Frequency channel module (translation UHF) you should probably discharge the high voltage anode plug going into the picture tube or "zap" ouch if you accidentally touch it! LoL
Cool commercial, I never get tired of those...I'm thinking I like "older" Betty, better, as she was in the Lucy commercials... she looks kinda frumpy here...
For the early 1950's anything that cost $299.95 was a chunck of change...I remember my mother telling me the first home she and my Dad bought in 1954 had monthly payments of 42.00...she was a R.N. and made 120.00 a month and my Dad worked at a tire factory...guess that's why they did'nt get a TV unitl the very late 50's.
Westinghouse sold their appliance division off about 1974 to White-Consolidated Industries. From there the Westinghouse name on tv's and small appliances looks to have been licensed out. So anything for the home with the Westinghouse name isn't the old company at all. Much like RCA and Sunbeam have nothing to do with their roots. Just a name
The original Westinghouse make their last TV about 1969. They made a few Penncrest sets through about 1970. Westinghouse then just forgot about TV and radio manufacturing entirely and seemingly the public forgot about them.
The new Westinghouse LCD TVs you see are a rebadged TV from some other manufacturer (DELTA? ORION?) and have nothing to do with the original Westinghouse per-se.
I need an HD set for the bedroom and was looking at a Westinghouse. There was one in hotel I once visited and it worked well enough for the price.