The TV sets in the large cedar cabinets with a 12" screen with a magnifier in front of it to make the picture seem larger?
2007-11-26 23:22:08 · 21 answers · asked by Anonymous in Society & Culture ➔ Cultures & Groups ➔ Senior Citizens
My Dad and the next door neighbor brought ours into the house in Azusa, CA in 1952.
2007-11-27 02:07:45 · update #1
What do you mean ... do I remember? It's like it was yesterday. Black and white, snowy even on good days and only two channels but beautiful cabinet. My aunt bought if for the family. I was amazed and wondered "how do they do that?" In fact, I still wonder that.
2007-11-27 03:37:07 · answer #1 · answered by Just Hazel 6 · 3⤊ 0⤋
No we never had one...our very first set was a console TV that had (at least) a 20 inch screen...no magnifier required, but it WAS black and white. I remember vaguely my Uncle bringing over a film screen that fit over the black and white, and was supposed to allow you to "see" in colour. All it did was separate the image into blue and red though and make anyone watching it go crosseyed!
I still have that console! Although my father removed all the guts from it and put in shelves, turning it into a double sided bookcase. It is what we now use as a TV stand for the 27 inch colour TV we now own (about eight years old, bought on sale at WalMart).
2007-11-27 09:24:58 · answer #2 · answered by Susie Q 7 · 3⤊ 0⤋
I don't remember the magnifier...but our TV's were naturally all consoles [took them years to put out the so-called table tops or 'portables'] and the cabinets were just beautiful with teeninesy screens...lol I kept one of the parents' TV's for years because it was an ash wood cabinet, corner TV and I planned to turn it into a aquarium...which, btw, I never did! lol
2007-11-27 08:36:04 · answer #3 · answered by sage seeker 7 · 4⤊ 0⤋
Yes, I remember those magnifiers, but never used one. I have a early 1950's black and white TV on a metal stand that still works but the vertical hold is the only problem.
2007-11-27 07:28:11 · answer #4 · answered by bobe 6 · 2⤊ 0⤋
LOL!! I don't know if that was the type of T.V. we had but I remember my grandmas T.V. that seemed like it had a magnifyer on it, seemed like the glass was real thick! Now we have flat screens and 3 different remotes to operate the thing!! Ohhh for the days!!!
2007-11-27 07:27:53 · answer #5 · answered by thisaintall07 4 · 2⤊ 0⤋
I remember them. We had one, but if it was cedar, it was painted or covered because it wasn't that nice looking. The cabinet was almost as big as my car and the screen looked like my glove compartment.
2007-11-27 07:29:24 · answer #6 · answered by California Gal 5 · 2⤊ 0⤋
I remember them, we never owned one, but have seen them. The first set I saw, had about a 5 inch screen, it's been a few years ago .
2007-11-27 09:32:54 · answer #7 · answered by LIPPIE 7 · 2⤊ 0⤋
RCA 1949 Console, 9-TC-245.
11" Diag; 23-1/2" wide x 38" high x 21" deep
2007-11-27 07:28:41 · answer #8 · answered by Anonymous · 2⤊ 0⤋
Yes, we had one when I was a kid in highschool. Later when I married I bought my first TV in a maple wood cabinet with a planter in the bottom. The ivy always died. I was really stylin'
2007-11-27 10:56:02 · answer #9 · answered by lpaganus 6 · 2⤊ 0⤋
In Christmas pictures from 1953 & 54 there is one in the background.
2007-11-27 08:52:16 · answer #10 · answered by Southern Comfort 6 · 3⤊ 0⤋