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In search of a good home: A 1949 television

By adamg on Thu, 01/29/2009 - 8:53pm

Old TV If you were driving around Sutherland Road in Cleveland Circle today and spotted a forlorn, ancient-looking television by the curb, Brad Kayal will explain its story:

I moved to Boston in the spring of 2001 and didn't really know anyone in this city. I also lived in a 200 square foot basement studio apartment in Mission Hill and attracting any visitors was kind of tough.

So, to pass some time that first summer I bought this old and broken 1949 Admiral television set on eBay to fix up. It was salvaged from an old radio and TV repair shop in Connecticut that burned down and was in pretty bad shape. I spent over a week sanding and refinishing it and then refitted it with a slightly more modern CRT tube and chassis. This 1949 Admiral became my first working television in Boston. ...

Alas, the years were not kind to the old Admiral ...

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By BikerGeek on Fri, 01/30/2009 - 7:44am.

VHF TV channels were originally numbered starting at "1". Channel 1 was eliminated in 1948, and very few commercial TV sets were made with Channel 1 on the dial.

If that TV had Channel 1 on it, it would've been worth a fair bit of money to a collector. I know it was made in 1949, but the eBay seller might have been wrong as to its year of manufacture, or the change might not have made it to the production line yet, etc.

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By Laurence Glavin on Fri, 01/30/2009 - 3:39pm.

I imagine that after deciding to jettison this old set, you must have feel disconsolate.

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By Laurence Glavin on Fri, 01/30/2009 - 4:17pm.

Geez, two mistakes in one post. This has never happened to me before.

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