RCA built-in TV, 1960

[kx250rider]

I've seen only a handful of built-in color sets, and I don't recall ever seeing one "meant" to be built in. I removed a CTC-5 from a built-in, on Tower Road in Beverly Hills in the late 80s, and it was just a regular retail CTC-5 "Special" table model in a custom-built wall recession next to the fireplace, and with the back of the set accessible from a fake kitchen cupboard behind. The controls were reached through one of a set of recessed book shelves, which ran the rest of the wall to the right of the TV face. There was a 10 or 12 inch speaker and grille mounted above the TV, and wired in. Really cool to remember seeing that! It was still working and in use!!! Only reason we removed it for the customer, was that the owner had bought a VCR, and didn't like the flagging. He had to go down to a 19" screen to fit the wall box.

Charles