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Posted on 5/22/20 at 10:50 pm to Zappas Stache
The local K&B drugstore had the tube tester right near the main entrance by the swinging purple gates.
Posted on 5/22/20 at 11:04 pm to RedRifle
My first TV I was allowed to have in my room was a black and white made by Ford.
Posted on 5/22/20 at 11:04 pm to Dick Leverage
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We had one like that. Called it Twiggy because it looked like something from Buck Rogers. Erin Gray....ummmm!
You can still see Erin Gray in all her glory on Saturday nights om MeTV
Posted on 5/22/20 at 11:05 pm to Zappas Stache
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Yea, maybe he was testing them. But it wasn't radio shack, it was a little convienience store.
Yep. Whatever your local version of 7-11 or Stop N Shop was at the time was where the tester was located. And once you tested the tubes you opened a cabinet on the bottom of the tester and found the tube you needed. Go home, put the new tube in, and you were in business. Those damn sets put out so much heat you didn't need to turn a heater on in the den.
Posted on 5/22/20 at 11:08 pm to Rebel
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My first TV I was allowed to have in my room was a black and white made by Ford.
Hell, I never knew Ford owned Philco. Interesting.
Posted on 5/22/20 at 11:13 pm to LegendInMyMind
Back when, every Ford automobile came with a Philco radio.
Posted on 5/22/20 at 11:15 pm to LegendInMyMind
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Hell, I never knew Ford owned Philco. Interesting.
Yep. It had the Ford emblem still used today on it followed by the Philco emblem.
This post was edited on 5/22/20 at 11:18 pm
Posted on 5/22/20 at 11:23 pm to LegendInMyMind
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I think I still have a hernia from moving one of those heavy cabinet bastards. No wonder we just sat the new tv on it for a few months.
I bought a Sony FD Trinitron 36" in 1999 that took three guys to move upstairs. And that wasn't a "cabinet" TV.
Heaviest, most dense, TV I have ever moved. Had to be well over 200 pounds. eta-Just found a weight for it. 223 pounds.
This post was edited on 5/22/20 at 11:25 pm
Posted on 5/22/20 at 11:25 pm to BuckyCheese
My mom and her husband got a 36 or 38" Sony TV as a wedding gift. It was early 2000s I guess. That bitch definitely weighs over 120 lbs. It took me and him to move it last time.
Posted on 5/22/20 at 11:31 pm to RedRifle
This thread makes me miss my childhood.
Posted on 5/22/20 at 11:37 pm to fallguy_1978
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My mom and her husband got a 36 or 38" Sony TV as a wedding gift. It was early 2000s I guess. That bitch definitely weighs over 120 lbs. It took me and him to move it last time.
Damn millenials...try doing that shite at move-in and move-out of the dorms... no elevator. I had a TV/VCR combo that weighed a ton up until '09. Had that as the main TV until I got one of the first LEDs from Dell. It finally cycled out of our house 5 years ago after moving it roughly 12 times. Prior to high school I had the original Nintendo on a b&w 13" tv after being stuck on a 5" b&w that was as big as a case of soda. (Used to watch WCCW on it every Sunday night after bedtime...tin foil antenna and all.)
Posted on 5/22/20 at 11:40 pm to MSUDawg98
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Damn millenials
I'm 42 baw.
Posted on 5/22/20 at 11:45 pm to jimmy the leg
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I moved a TriniTON TV up a flight of stairs once
I had Sony 36in Wega I paid about $2k for from circuit city for in 1999. That was an awesome TV. But... It weighed 200lbs,seriously. And we moved it up stairs twice, one move was all the way from Dallas back to Baton Rouge. That flat screen was thick and heavy as frick.
This post was edited on 5/22/20 at 11:49 pm
Posted on 5/22/20 at 11:50 pm to MSUDawg98
I'd eat breakfast every morning while watching I Love Lucy reruns on this little Zenith black and white tv before school as a kid.
Didn't have cable until the early 2000s. We were still using an old giant cabinet tv up until the early 2000s.
Didn't have cable until the early 2000s. We were still using an old giant cabinet tv up until the early 2000s.
Posted on 5/22/20 at 11:56 pm to BuckyCheese
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I bought a Sony FD Trinitron 36" in 1999 that took three guys to move upstairs. And that wasn't a "cabinet" TV.
Heaviest, most dense, TV I have ever moved. Had to be well over 200 pounds. eta-Just found a weight for it. 223 pounds.
Some people were getting rid of theirs back in 2009 or so and my wife's parents got the idea that I should go pick it up and bring it to them. The FIL was excited to upgrade to a flat screen in his bedroom.
I get there with my wife and I couldn't believe how heavy it was. I remember (unsuccessfully) trying to convince my wife to just buy them a new TV instead of dealing with it. My back was never the same.
Posted on 5/23/20 at 12:05 am to BeepNode
I remember us having a Nintendo for the longest. And then we switched to a xbox. I could tell a slight difference, but it wasn’t that much. Well I went to a friends house who had an hdtv, 720p probably. I told my dad and mom about it and was told that I’d better start working if I was going to afford one... lol
Well a year later I get a new hdtv, it was a Sony flatscreen. That muthafuka was the heaviest thing I’d ever picked up at that point in my life. I believe it was a 2003 model, and my gosh! If that thing were to fall on you from a height of a few feet above your head it would kill you.
Well a year later I get a new hdtv, it was a Sony flatscreen. That muthafuka was the heaviest thing I’d ever picked up at that point in my life. I believe it was a 2003 model, and my gosh! If that thing were to fall on you from a height of a few feet above your head it would kill you.
Posted on 5/23/20 at 12:10 am to RedRifle
Loved watching the Godfather on that bad boy.
Posted on 5/23/20 at 12:13 am to BuckyCheese
Holy Jeebus, we had that TV.
I praise the day that it got wet in Katrina and was the last time me and my 5 homies had to ever move it — to the fricking curb.
I praise the day that it got wet in Katrina and was the last time me and my 5 homies had to ever move it — to the fricking curb.
Posted on 5/23/20 at 12:14 am to mikelbr
This is the damn TV my mother has. It's a bitch to move.
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