Where is everyone from?

[oldtvman]

It seems unusal to find a group of people with the same pasion for history and quality. I'd like to meet all of you but chances are most of you are spread out across the country, my name is Larry Melton and I live in northern Indiana, South Bend, Indiana area

[luvvinvinyl]

oldtvman, if you go to the User CP, you can edit your profile to include your favourite description of your hometown. Makes it easier for others to know if/how to help you, if you post with a question.

BTW, look up, WAYYY up, (not really that far up) and you will see that I am from the place in Canada, where we travel NORTH to go to America, Land of the Free and Home of Oreos with Double Stuf.

[Sandy G]

Windsor-Home of CKLW...Ah, yes....-Sandy G.

[Steve McVoy]

A good way to meet a bunch of TV collectors from all over the country is to come to the Early Television Convention in Columbus, Ohio at the end of the month. This year we expect over 100 attendees. Here is information:

http://www.earlytelevision.org/2005_convention.html

[RVonse]

Oldtvman,
I could be mistaken, but weren't all the early RCA's and Magnavox's made somewhere in Indiana? That would have been a whole lot of sets to be shipped from Indiana to the rest of the country.

We should probably all be toasting to you paying honor of this fact.

Hi Larry (oldtvman), I know SB fairly well as I'm a Studebaker nut! Was last there in the spring of 2002 for the 150th anniversary. Man it was hotter than the hinges of hell! Sure did enjoy the fireflies at night though :-)

Has the city pulled down any more of the buildings in the Stude corridor? I know that their intention is to clear just about everything but the old Administration building and the one that SASCO occupies. How's the new museum shaping up? After decades of boondoggles and disappearing funds it's about time this actually got built.

Anthony (former NYer)

[Chad Hauris]

Magnavoxes were made in Fort Wayne, Indiana. The government contractor portion of Magnavox, if it still exists, may still be there. RCA TV's were from Bloomington I believe, it seems like there was a Thomson plant there up till very recently.

well,i'm probably the youngest dude here (22) and i'm from columbus ohio,and i visit indiana every summer and i THINK my magnavox was made in indiana..
frank

[mhardy6647]

From Baltimore, MD, but now (since 1991) near Boston, MA.

[old_tv_nut]

Have I lived in Chicago or the Chicago area all my life? Not yet!

[luvvinvinyl]

Originally Posted by hotrod54chevy

well,i'm probably the youngest dude here (22) and i'm from columbus ohio,and i visit indiana every summer and i THINK my magnavox was made in indiana..
frank

Well, maybe in this forum, hotrod, but on AK, we have some members who are little more than half your age. Some 14-15-16 year-olds. Fun to watch 'em learn, even if one does wince on occasion. In that regard, they are no different than the rest of us. And not having spent as many $ on gear, that is. Yet.

[aystrick]

I am from Charlotte NC. My son is in grad school at ND. Go Irish!!!

[jstout66]

I'm in Omaha, Ne. Got started in this hobby as a kid in my Uncles sales repair shop in Tekamah, Ne. Jamie

[drz01]

Toronto, and my name is Dave.

[Aussie Bloke]

G'day Larry, I'm Troy and I'm from Australia mate ! I'm not much older than hotrod54chevy, I hit 24 in October.

I'm personally fascinated with early television, video cameras and video recording technology, I especially love to get my hands on as much early live colour videotape recordings of the late 50s and early 60s as possible as it's soooo interesting seeing reality from over 40 years ago in high quality as I've seen too many scratchy B&W kinescope films of that era and use to think that's the quality of live television back then hehehehe . Anyways seeing these early TV sets and cameras and live TV shows on quad videotape and film being brought back to life is bloody awsome and I say "good onya" to those putting in the hard yakka into getting them up and going !

Australia was the last to get colour, colour started here 19th October 1974 on an part time basis until the opening day 1st March 1975 which all programs went colour. But we had experimental colourcasting in the 1960s.

Next year is Australia's 50th anniversary of television and at the Sydney Powerhouse museum there's going to be a lot of television related gear on display including the 1930 Baird Televisor mechanical set and a 1938 Marconi electronic B&W TV set. And of course I'm going up there to see these fantastic pieces of early TV technology, hopefully there might even be a roundie colour set imported for display too.

Lastly I'm not a TV collector as I have no room to store them but would love to collect if I had the room, I'm a vintage video collector and I have a website http://70scountdown.50megs.com/ which features all my video gear, it's about finding lost episodes of my favourite 70s Aussie rock show "Countdown" which involves looking at 70s vintage format videotapes to find recordings of the show on.

Cheers
Troy