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I don't remember even seeing any roundies in a hotel or motel, but then again, we never stayed in any high-end places. Usually Howard Johnson's, or sometimes a Best Western-type place. Lower priced motels had coin-op black & white sets (Zeniths & Admirals in painted beige metal cabinets), if I recall. One Motel 6 in Lompoc, CA, had Packard-Bell 21" B&W sets, whereas most were 19". The first color TV I saw in any hotel was a Magnavox 17" tube set in the Chester, PA Howard Johnson's on Edgemont Ave. That was in the summer of '78. Later, I remember seeing mostly all RCA mural TVs in motels and hotels through the 80s, and by the 90s, they had switched to newer solid state RCAs at most places.
Now let's not forget the Zenith 43M20 15" color prototype in '53 at the Biltmore Hotel in Oakland, CA. Since it was stolen, it is one of the very few still existing after Zenith was forced to destroy those prototypes after the RCA suit.
Charles
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Collecting & restoring TVs in Los Angeles since age 10
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