Back to the console stuff...

OK, here I am on the other side. My theory runs something like this...

In the late 50's, cars seemed to be the largest, heaviest, and most chrome ridden pieces of "artwork" out there. Size meant style, size meant that you had MONEY, size was everything by the late 50's through to the early 1970's. Gas was cheap. TV's (IMHO) seemed to run along the same marketing ideas. I don't think that technologically the picture tube could grow, so why not have an enormous cabinet? My father purchased a 1966 GE console the "top of the line". Even though it had more than its share of problems, our family loved that set deeply. My parents kept it long after it quit working and the tv repair dude told my mom "...we just can't work on it any more, just can't get the parts....." Mom told me last week that she gave it to good will. For me, that TV was the greatest, and always will be.