Everything here is so interesting!

[Leslie]

I am so pleased to have found this website! I learned of it by accident while researching the one lone color episode on the first season of "Hazel". It is fascinating to learn about all these early TVs, radios and recording devices. For the record, my family's first color set was a 1969 Sears Silvertone with one of the early squarish picture tubes. I guess you would call it a console as it was too big to be a portable but it was not in an elaborate cabinet. My grandfather was Ralph A. Mullaney who for many years during the 1930s and 40s was the chief engineer at Zenith Radio. He worked on the famous Zenith Cobra-Matic turntable/record changer and always (according to my Mother) had the latest electronic gadgets in his home. I believe my Mother also said he worked on the Trans-Oceanic radios that Zenith made back in the day.