10-11-2010, 09:37 PM
War story 
I moved back to my hometown in the early 70s and one day I came home to find a TV set sitting in my driveway. It had belonged to my granny in the 50s...she passed away in 1967. I was thinking " who/what/how someone put that all info together?" I did eventually meet the person who dropped it off and it was a close family friend.
I kept the TV for a while and actually used it. No restoration needed. I eventually got tired of getting up and retuning it, readjusting the vert and horiz hold and returned it to the curb since old TVs were not in style at that time.
If this were to happen today now that I'm an old nostalgic fart it would become an instant family heirloom. But I know darn well that it would have never survived the past 35-40 years of moving around and changing tastes. But I'll get over it At least it hadn't been painted.
I moved back to my hometown in the early 70s and one day I came home to find a TV set sitting in my driveway. It had belonged to my granny in the 50s...she passed away in 1967. I was thinking " who/what/how someone put that all info together?" I did eventually meet the person who dropped it off and it was a close family friend.
I kept the TV for a while and actually used it. No restoration needed. I eventually got tired of getting up and retuning it, readjusting the vert and horiz hold and returned it to the curb since old TVs were not in style at that time.
If this were to happen today now that I'm an old nostalgic fart it would become an instant family heirloom. But I know darn well that it would have never survived the past 35-40 years of moving around and changing tastes. But I'll get over it
At least it hadn't been painted.
