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Color on the Olympic!

New video electronics installed and set is displaying a picture! This Olympic used a very unusual 24″ black and white picture tube… when most TVs of the era were 21″ this was a king-sized model. There was no way to prevent the small bits of the top and bottom of the new picture tube fromContinue reading “Color on the Olympic!”

The incomparable Sylvania Halolight (1956)

The ’56 Halolight- These models features an opaque white plastic mask around the picture concealing a neon lamp. The gimmick was that you had a TV lamp built right into the screen! Still needs new grille cloth and complete assembly of the halo and control panel. This TV will be remote control operated! Complete andContinue reading “The incomparable Sylvania Halolight (1956)”