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In reply to the discussion: Captivating portraits take a look inside America's Rockabilly community [View all]wandy
(3,539 posts)Haa, but cars were neat and the futuristic technology was the stuff dreams were made of.
I still tramp garage sails, second hand shops even thrash piles hoping to find one of these critters......

Considering the somewhat 'severe' voltages needed to light up a CRT it fascinates me that it would have been designed for form rather than function considering what their was to work with then.
I want to take one apart. I want to restore one.
It was early television that caused most of the tribulation in my life.......
Hay, if you rescued one of these things from the curb at the ripe old age of 13, you were going to have to start figuring out how the darned things worked or it was "No Rockey and Bullwinkle for you"!

Yup, got knocked on my butt a few times.
Fell off a few roofs wiring up monster rabbit ears.
Still nothing could replace the smell of toasted selenium rectifiers in the morning.