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THANKS for these adds, Rick! It is amazing how great those color ty ads were, back then! We KNEW they were special back then and seeing them now proves it! Always tastefully upscale surroundings to best display their "furniture" with a color TV in it. Such grace and quality.
ReplyDeleteI bought a small color TV for my bedroom in '69. My parents still had a 19" B&W.
ReplyDeleteThat a boy whkattk!!
DeleteThe 1960’s when color tv became more affordable. Back in New Jersey my maternal grandfather thought of buying one of the new color sets when they first came out in 1954 to replace his B&W
ReplyDeleteDumont set, but the 1500 dollar price tag was way too much. In 1957 RCA came out with a 500 dollar table top color tv, but not many tv shows were in color. Finally in 1965 my grandfather bought an Admiral color tv, it lasted 3 years when it blew out. In 1968 he ended up with a Sylvania color tv like the one pictured at the top, French provincial in English walnut. Sylvania boasted that their color picture tube was brighter with its rare earth phosphors. That set was still working when he died in 1988.
Our first color set in California was an RCA tv with a Danish modern cabinet in mahogany purchased in 1969. Finally got to see Gunsmoke, the FBI, Land of the Giants, Seymour’s Fright Night, the Banana Splits, the Bugaloos, Speed Racer and the Roadrunner in living color ! Back then you could choose cabinet styles in select woods. American colonial, contemporary, Danish modern, French provincial, Mediterranean, Regency and Italian renaissance in either Oak, limed oak, mahogany, blond mahogany, maple, rosewood, walnut or pine. Later we had Zenith, Magnavox and Quasar color sets.
-Rj
OMG ... my parents had that exact 27 inch ugly-ass Zenith!
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