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Big Picture Television 1949 Crosley Spectator

Vintage Television Ads


Flashmatic the first wireless remote
A flash of magic light from across the room...and you remain in your easy chair...


(after this site on the flashmatic via bifurcated rivets)

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There's no way to verify it now but I'm pretty sure this is my TV that once was.
http://tinyurl.com/9t3wm
It's a Stromberg-Carlson.
http://tinyurl.com/9bzpx
There's a metaphorical springboard in that woman's eyes, with the telephone on the demo in the ad.
They're historical.
http://tinyurl.com/ae48r
They made many other models.
http://tinyurl.com/79dhh
To get the full nuance you'd need to have been in a State-side world where there were only maybe four or five kinds of popular TV mfrs.
And S-C was not one of them. They were a sort of hobbyist's choice, something the TV-cognoscenti recognized. And then only mainly in the 50's and early 60's.
It was for sale on Craig'sList, a less-crass ebay thingie we have here in the US, I mean the image is from that, via Google.
I found it at a garage sale, a near-antique, many years ago now.
And sold it so also, long ago.
Posted by rollo at February 18, 2006 01:23 PM

The metaphorical springboard jumped out at me.
Tecnhology.
Busy.
Look at me.

I love that 9bzpx S-C. Showing window box. Could have been the best thing on the televsion sometimes.

One of my biggest regrets of this ilk is not grabbing a beautiful vintage TV off the nature strip when in a hard rubbish collection once.
Probably didn't work, but would always work as a table.
Posted by boynton at February 18, 2006 02:17 PM

re the crosley Spectator: Crosley made cars and gave their refrigerator a great name - The Crosley Shelvador.
Posted by Brownie at February 18, 2006 11:36 PM

Yes, a great name. Like Roll-a-door, they could have set a jingle to the Toreador song?

- and they also made the "Icy Ball"
http://www.refresearch.com/m-icyball.html
Posted by boynton at February 20, 2006 01:50 PM