[BoomerBaby]

[font=Times New Roman][align=left]I have been visiting my mother this week, and at some point we began talking about the old Philco. I thought we had gotten it in 1955, but I looked it up and it is a 1953 model. I realize now that this was a HUGE set for back then! With the cabinet doors closed it looks unobtrusive, except for the finish on the cabinet. ((Yes, it is in the living room still.) While it has provision for external antenna hookup, it also has an internal antenna handle, top center of the back. Four positions, though they never did much... we needed rabbit ears for our Brooklyn apartment. It is still intact, mostly... my father and I replaced giant capacitors or resistors (do not recall which) when it was nine. Can still function, though it has a hard time doing vertical hold. That was never one of its strong points, though.
Here is a question that has bugged me since I was a kid: this TV has a 2 through 13 VHF tuner, but a metal plate between the left pair and right pair of control knobs, proclaims UHF. Why? It has no UHF tuner nor, as far as I have ever been able to find, any place for one to plug in.