The switch to HDTV is going to be a real shock to someone on Fort Washington Ave.
"No way!" I muttered to myself when I spotted this television set from a block away. I kept repeating that phrase, well, not exactly that phrase, there was another word between "no" and "way", as I got closer. Somebody was throwing out their DuMont TV set. Their 1955 DuMont RA-301 Console (blonde wood). This is an object so obscure that I could only find one picture on the Internet. I hope somebody grabs this thing before it gets picked up with the trash tomorrow morning.
It would make a nice fish tank cabinet.
Posted by: judy | 01 March 2010 at 10:23 AM
That thing belongs in MoMA!
Posted by: Thegoglog.blogspot.com | 01 March 2010 at 07:18 PM
Wow, that's a real collector's item. A true antique. I bet if it was restored, it would fetch a pretty penny on eBay.
Posted by: Stubing | 01 March 2010 at 08:58 PM
Or in the Smithsonian next to Archie Bunker's chair.
Posted by: Elwood Blues | 01 March 2010 at 09:00 PM
Nam June Paik could have used that! RIP NJP.
Posted by: JB | 01 March 2010 at 09:37 PM
Let's hope it found a better home than the landfill.
Posted by: Joe | 02 March 2010 at 09:05 PM