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| Post# 738254 2/28/2014 at 12:48 (3,706 days old) by cadman (Cedar Falls, IA) | ||
I know we have some TV collectors amongst us, so I just had to share. Oh My.
CLICK HERE TO GO TO cadman's LINK on Minneapolis Craigslist 
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| Post# 738263 , Reply# 1 2/28/2014 at 14:05 (3,706 days old) by HooverWheelAway () | ||
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I. Don't. Know. What. To. Say. :-/ | ||
| Post# 738265 , Reply# 2 2/28/2014 at 14:30 (3,706 days old) by washdaddy (Baltimore) | ||
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Fixed your link- First time I've ever seen this style of console. Wonder if it's a B&W or color set? CLICK HERE TO GO TO washdaddy's LINK on Minneapolis Craigslist | ||
Post# 738271 , Reply# 3 2/28/2014 at 14:52 (3,706 days old) by petek  (Ontari ari ari O ) |
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| Post# 738276 , Reply# 4 2/28/2014 at 15:13 (3,706 days old) by whirlaway (Hampton Virginia) | ||
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Different!!!!!!! I call that Whip-crack Away! Furniture. I can see Doris Day on that set in Calamity Jane.Well you could wheel it out on the patio when your grilling.Im pretty sure its B&W.Looks like something from the Price is Right circa 1964. | ||
| Post# 738278 , Reply# 5 2/28/2014 at 15:18 (3,706 days old) by moparguy (Virginia) | ||
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Ye Olde colonial TV! From the period when everything got the colonial treatment! I have not seen this television before, but I have seen stereos built into faux dry sinks! | ||
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Post# 738281 , Reply# 6 2/28/2014 at 15:33 (3,706 days old) by CircleW (NE Cincinnati OH area) |
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Tea is served! First time I've seen a combination TV/tea cart. | ||
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Post# 738284 , Reply# 7 2/28/2014 at 15:43 (3,706 days old) by ovrphil (N.Atlanta / Georgia ) |
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| Post# 738300 , Reply# 8 2/28/2014 at 16:34 (3,706 days old) by bellalaundry (St. Catharines, Ontario, Canada) | ||
That tv | ||
| Post# 738305 , Reply# 9 2/28/2014 at 17:19 (3,706 days old) by norgeway (mocksville n c ) | ||
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Oh MY!!!! I remember the styling oh too well...My Mother and Aunt loved early american, probably one reason I despise it so,LOL!! EVERYTHING we had looked like this, and in old ugly maple no less!!! | ||
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Post# 738312 , Reply# 10 2/28/2014 at 17:43 (3,706 days old) by goatfarmer (South Bend, home of Champions) |
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| Post# 738319 , Reply# 12 2/28/2014 at 18:25 (3,706 days old) by danemodsandy (The Bramford, Apt. 7-E) | ||
Another Maple Hater Here:
I grew up in a house full of this dreck - my mother adored maple. In addition, she was a pushover for anything that looked like something else - electric can openers that looked like cans of Heinz beans, cassette tape cases that looked like a row of books, etc.
I'm glad she never saw this TV for sale new - she'd have been so excited she'd have needed Depends just to get through signing the sales contract. | ||
| Post# 738323 , Reply# 13 2/28/2014 at 18:35 (3,706 days old) by twintubdexter (Palm Springs) | ||
not the biggest fan of Early American maple...
...but when I see something "vintage" like this set that appears to be in beautiful shape, working or not, I think of the special people who took such great care with it as opposed to moving it to the garage, then to the backyard and finally to the dump.
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| Post# 738328 , Reply# 14 2/28/2014 at 18:43 (3,706 days old) by norgeway (mocksville n c ) | ||
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What Brand.. Is it, Motorola/Admiral/Sylvania/????? | ||
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Post# 738334 , Reply# 17 2/28/2014 at 18:54 (3,706 days old) by petek (Ontari ari ari O ) |
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| Post# 738351 , Reply# 21 2/28/2014 at 19:41 (3,706 days old) by twintubdexter (Palm Springs) | ||
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Jeff, | ||
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Post# 738353 , Reply# 22 2/28/2014 at 19:46 (3,706 days old) by Tomturbomatic (Beltsville, MD) |
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Do you mean that it could be wheeled out on the patio and watched while the meal was prepared on the GE patio cart range? Going up and down steps might not be good for the TV unless it was lifted. | ||
| Post# 738355 , Reply# 23 2/28/2014 at 19:53 (3,706 days old) by moparguy (Virginia) | ||
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LOL, to both Joe and Tom! Yes, it is hard collecting such large "trinkets" as refrigerators, stoves, washers, and dryers... they aren't easily hidden from friends and partners! | ||
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Post# 738362 , Reply# 24 2/28/2014 at 20:10 (3,706 days old) by petek (Ontari ari ari O ) |
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Post# 738377 , Reply# 25 2/28/2014 at 20:37 (3,706 days old) by rp2813 (Sannazay) |
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 Put me in the camp along with the rest of the early American haters, but there's something about this tea vee that's so over the top it lends the same sort of so-bad-it's-good appeal as a John Waters film. Indeed, it would have been a great addition to Francine Fishpaw's living room, or that of most any other character Divine portrayed for him.
Definitely a B&W without a UHF option -- there are only 12 windows on the channel indicator. | ||
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Post# 738409 , Reply# 26 3/1/2014 at 00:39 (3,706 days old) by tolivac (greenville nc) |
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Wheelbarrow TV!First for me-never seen a TV like this.Use it in your garden-haul bags of fertilizer on the top?Does it have an optional mortar mixing tray and hoe? | ||
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Post# 738449 , Reply# 27 3/1/2014 at 08:12 (3,705 days old) by 112561 (River Park, in Port St. Lucie, Florida) |
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It's a Packard Bell Tea Cart television. Came in 23 and 25", available in color later on, from what I get in this link: CLICK HERE TO GO TO 112561's LINK | ||
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Post# 738559 , Reply# 28 3/1/2014 at 16:54 (3,705 days old) by CircleW (NE Cincinnati OH area) |
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Maple is probably my favorite wood - but not in the common "Early American" finish. I had a couple pieces in my bedroom when I was a kid that had that orangy-brown stain. | ||
| Post# 738560 , Reply# 29 3/1/2014 at 16:58 (3,705 days old) by firedome (Binghamton NY & Lake Champlain VT) | ||
I love kitschy decor like that...
while we have classic MCM '60s Swedish teak in the LR & DR etc., I've set aside the den for our own special celebration of '50s Early American Revival, right down to the black eagle on the pine panel wall, dough-box magazine collector, highboy-hutch, hobnail lights, beer trays and glider-rocker with wings (still looking for just the right Eagle & Liberty Bell fabric for the cushions or drapes)... everything in glorious hard rock maple! Yes it's deco-kitsch personified, but even though it's somewhat tongue-in-cheek, there's something about it that warms the cockles of my heart. I guess it's because it was everywhere growing up, and I had a good childhood. Most people, at least in much of the country, had family, relatives, friends and neighbors that had EM decor, and even Pam Kuehber over at www.retrorenovation.com... has written about it, along with knotty pine kitchens, which I also happen to love. It's all about home, hearth, warmth and nostalgia in some funny way. And after all, it's easy to display good taste, but cheesy can be fun too! Baltimoreans tend to be off kilter: John Waters, Frank Zappa, EA Poe), so that must explain my love of EM.
BTW: funny mention of John Waters, both he and Divine (Glenn Milstead - RIP) went to my high school in Towson, 2 yrs ahead of me, and Pink Flamingos was filmed on the farm of a friend of mine out in Hampstead. Another friend lived the the same Apt building as John, off Mt Royal Ave in Balto in the early 70s... love JW, he's coolest guy ever. | ||
| Post# 738571 , Reply# 31 3/1/2014 at 17:42 (3,705 days old) by danemodsandy (The Bramford, Apt. 7-E) | ||
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Tom:
The fluted/grooved edge was just decorative, giving a wall some surface interest. The stuff is called Pickwick paneling, and it's still available, should anyone be hell-bent on recreating a '50s knotty pine kitchen.
The house I grew up in had Pickwick paneling in two rooms, and the fronts of the kitchen cabinets were made of it as well. 
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Post# 738614 , Reply# 32 3/1/2014 at 20:24 (3,705 days old) by Tomturbomatic (Beltsville, MD) |
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That's it exactly. Thank you very much. | ||
| Post# 738615 , Reply# 33 3/1/2014 at 20:31 (3,705 days old) by xraytech (Rural southwest Pennsylvania ) | ||
I absolutely love that TV, if it were close to me I'd buy in an instant.
Myself, unlike most everyone else in this thread loves maple furniture in the Early American style. I have always loved the Early American furnishings of my grandparents, one grandma had mostly Ethan Allen maple, only non maple furniture is a Sears open hearth bedroom. My other grandmother has a Victorian full of Tell City maple from the Young Republic collection. This tea cart tv would be 100% at home in my living room and it's little old lady decor I love | ||
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Post# 738671 , Reply# 35 3/2/2014 at 06:44 (3,704 days old) by countryford (Austin, MN) |
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| Post# 739085 , Reply# 36 3/3/2014 at 18:46 (3,703 days old) by ken (NYS) | ||
Firedome (Roger):
You mentioned John Waters and Divine. Many years ago at the video rental store (remember them?) we came across this movie titled Female Trouble. Had never heard of it before and had no idea who Divine was. We thought it looked interesting. I just about wet myself the first time I watched it. Right now Im laughing as I think about it!
The Christmas morning scene where Dawn Davenport's mother ends up on the floor with the Christmas tree on top of her is classic! I guess that type of humor isnt for everyone but I find it very funny. | ||
| Post# 739087 , Reply# 37 3/3/2014 at 18:49 (3,703 days old) by danemodsandy (The Bramford, Apt. 7-E) | ||
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Oh, Ralph! | ||
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Post# 739219 , Reply# 38 3/4/2014 at 11:31 (3,702 days old) by Tomturbomatic (Beltsville, MD) |
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Sandy, Was the Picwick treatment done to any panneling other than pine? Thanks. | ||
| Post# 739284 , Reply# 39 3/4/2014 at 18:25 (3,702 days old) by danemodsandy (The Bramford, Apt. 7-E) | ||
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Tom:
I've never seen Pickwick paneling in any other wood besides pine, but that doesn't mean it didn't exist. Remember that I grew up in the midcentury years when knotty pine was all the rage in kitchens and dens, so that's where I got my familiarity with the Pickwick stuff.
I would suspect that it was not made in more expensive woods such as walnut, because of that deep fluting - milling that flute into walnut would have made quite a lot of extravagantly-priced sawdust. Sorry not to have a more definitive answer. | ||
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Post# 739353 , Reply# 41 3/4/2014 at 23:01 (3,702 days old) by rp2813 (Sannazay) |
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