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Originally Posted by jswinden
My parents always had the big wooden console TVs with record player and radio built in. They were big, bulky, and heavy, and you are absolutely correct in that they were furniture and not just a TV. They made a statement just like the rest of the living room furniture. And since they were vacuum tube electronics, they were often easily fixed with a trip to the Radio Shack store where you could test all the tubes and replace any bad ones. And also the vacuum tubes helped heat the living room in the winter!  |
As a child, my grandmother's stereo was also a coffee table. She also had a black and white tv with a color screen in front of it. Made some things look really weird. It was supposed to turn your b&w tv into a color tv.
Her tv seemed to always be on. My other grandparents rarely watched tv. Just game shows and the news. But they didn't get their first tv until 1970. And they didn't have cable. Well grandmother did after granddad died. Now I know my great-grandmother got a tv when Guiding Light went from radio to tv but then she didn't like the show after it went to tv. The characters didn't match her thinking.