Nice CTC5 or 7 magazine ad on Ebay
 

How many of us would like to find that vintage color TV still unopened from the 1950's? I thought this ad was neat because of the unopened box.

polaraman

http://cgi.ebay.com/1956-RCA-NBC-Col...QQcmdZViewItem

What I like about that ad is that it looks like they just tore the top and front off the box and got that nice color picture on the tv. I'm not sure how they got to the cord or hooked up the antenna! Perhaps I'm analyzing an ad too much.

Steve

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My copy of that ad is from Life Magazine, Oct. 1, 1956. It looks to be a CTC-5 Westcott Super series model. An original CTC-5 shipping carton would be cool to have.

-Steve D.

the TV would be cooler

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If you found one NIB it still wouldn't work without recapping...:no:

Then you'd have a tough choice to make, fix it or leave it in it's pristine original condition...:scratch2:

Fix it! These were made to be used, not worshipped from afar :-)

Interesting that they shipped this heavy (and expensive!) TV in a cardboard box without massive amounts of padding. You have to guess that they handled parcels more carefully in those days.

Phil Nelson

you have to imagine they did everything more carefully in those days...

I'm guessing that's not a real carton - no model number or RCA logo?

There is old Dinah Shore on the tube-SEE THE USA IN YOUR CHEVROLET, AMERICA IS ASKING YOU TO CALL. Oops, showing my age there!:banana:

I'm going to have to dig through my Life magazines and see if I can find that one. Would be neat to have on display. RCA really promoted color HARD that season.

Back then, had you dropped a crated CTC-5 off the back of a truck you would likely have been fired on the spot. Now, if you dropped a boxed plasma set off onto the concrete the boss would probably have you shove it in the corner somewhere and so "I know nothink!"

Yeah. Neither is that picutre of Dinah on the open box set the kid getting X-rayed is watching....

Anybody remember the Sylvania full-page ads of an actual screen shot? Sometime in the '70?

I wonder how many kids
 

pointed to that ad to prove that it is ok to sit close to the screen?

Nearsighted kids would do that and I wonder what effects came about from it?

I have a service manual for the Admiral version of this set (or close to it...used a 21AXP22) and it said that x-rays were produced at the center of the screen, but with the safety glass in place they were not a problem.

Philco ran a series of ads in the sixties with actual screen shots, taken right off the air in Philadelphia. A quick search for 'Philco-Ford' in ebay will usually turn up one or two.