04-11-2011, 02:54 PM
No, it's not my place. I think it's David Fleet's; the editor.
Regarding the TRK-12's, there are around 30 of them surviving; and how many working; I dunno. Mine works.
I bought it on Radio Row, in downtown Manhattan, in 1954. I was in the Army at the time, and not far from discharge. I had it in the second floor barracks building where I had lived for a total of 21 months. It was in New Jersey, which looked directly across Raritan Bay, at Manhattan. The WNBT (Ch 4) antenna was (is?) atop the Empire State Building, so we were watching Channels 2 and 4 on it when I got it in the barracks building.
When I got it home, I re-capped the television chassis and the radio receiver chassis. They put a pretty nice 12 tube high fidelity receiver in with the TV chassis. It was a model where RCA pulled out all the stops.
I paid $35.00 for the set. I've seen them go for more than that since.
Regarding the TRK-12's, there are around 30 of them surviving; and how many working; I dunno. Mine works.
I bought it on Radio Row, in downtown Manhattan, in 1954. I was in the Army at the time, and not far from discharge. I had it in the second floor barracks building where I had lived for a total of 21 months. It was in New Jersey, which looked directly across Raritan Bay, at Manhattan. The WNBT (Ch 4) antenna was (is?) atop the Empire State Building, so we were watching Channels 2 and 4 on it when I got it in the barracks building.
When I got it home, I re-capped the television chassis and the radio receiver chassis. They put a pretty nice 12 tube high fidelity receiver in with the TV chassis. It was a model where RCA pulled out all the stops.
I paid $35.00 for the set. I've seen them go for more than that since.
