Meteor Find

[Countryford]

Yesterday, I was down in Tucson meeting a new friend. He owns an old house from the 1930's. It is right across the street from an old Hotel(Hotel was demolished in 1967). At the time of the hotel demolisation, the owner of the house acquired quite a bit of stuff from the hotel. Fast forward to 5 years ago, when my friend bought the house a bunch of stuff was left from back to when the house was built. My friend is a collector of anything and everything, except TVs. When he learned that I collected TVs he told me he had one that I could have. He pulled it out and after inspecting it, we think it came from the Hotel that was once across the street.
Anyways about the TV. It is a Meteor. All metal cabinet. I got home late last night and didn't get a chance to do anything other than take the pictures.







This tag on the top of the TV makes me think it came from that hotel.

[Doug66]

Must be a hotel TV with that mgt sticker. I've got a metal cabinet Setchell Carson that I think came from a motel. It has an internal volume control added on which is accessable only is the back is removed. It overrides the main volume control. I was told by an Antique Radio Forum member it was probably added on so the motel management could set the volume at a lower level so the guest could never turn the volume to max to disturb other guest.

A few years ago there was a Meteor set in a gray metal cabinet on ebay, but the seller wanted too much for it. The set stayed on there for a long time and finally disappeared.

[Username1]

That's pretty cool ! I like their logo ! !
Knob layout is like the GE's of the same size....
So what's the Meteor brand's story......?
I can see it's got Sears guts in it, Who made their stuff in what '58 ?
It looks like it's around that year...

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[zeno]

Thats a neat find. Never saw a Sears Meteor TV most
were Silvertones back then.
All factory " institutional" sets I worked on most RCA & Zenith
had volume limiters & often some form of channel lock out.

73 Zeno

[decojoe67]

That's pretty cool! That little logo in the front turns what could be just a plain-jane metal '50's set into something much more interesting! I know a lot of TV collectors who find interest in any odd-badged TV.

[hi_volt]

Very cool. Love the unusual logo. Looks like the set is in pretty good shape and is complete.

[N2IXK]

Cool find!

Have to wonder why marketing types would name a TV after something that lights up real bright, and then burns out after a second or so, though...

[dieseljeep]

Originally Posted by Username1

That's pretty cool ! I like their logo ! !
Knob layout is like the GE's of the same size....
So what's the Meteor brand's story......?
I can see it's got Sears guts in it, Who made their stuff in what '58 ?
It looks like it's around that year...

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The Meteor line was the lowest priced electronics in the Sears stores. Four tube table radios, simple child type record players and those real plain type TV's.
The set shown is a Warwick built set, similar to the Silvertone Metropolitan, or whatever they called the lower priced Silvertones.