Remember "Free TV" Signs on Motels?
 

Check this out!

This is off a postcard for a motel in the Northern Virginia area from back in the 1950's. And, right above the TV is what looks like a coin box from those "Magic Fingers" massagers of the 1960's. Obviously "pay TV" came early to the D.C. area!

Can anyone ID the TV in the photo?

73,

John
W3XWT/4

Similar look to a Motorola I once had, but I don't think that's the one. Mine had a 16 inch tube. That one looks like a 12 incher, but I may be wrong. Trying to think of manufacturers that produced sets cheap enough to allow motel operators to equip rooms.
Thanks for the pic!!
Kevin

Don't know for sure about the TV, but the timer was pretty common in the 1950's and 60's. Usually you got 30-60 minutes for a dime. I remember my Dad going ballistic when we stayed at a "rip-off" hotel that wanted 25 cents to turn on the TV! I also remember similar timers on air conditioners and of course the "Magic Fingers" beds, which were a quarter by the time I got to appreciate them....

Wow I liked that picture!! (Everything in it was quality stuff)