The Meme not a Meme Thread Part DEUX

[Cranky]

Ours was/is a 17" RCA. Still have it. [and yes, its the only one in the house and its almost 40 years old...]

I have my dad's 25" RCA that he bought early in 98. He passed on in the summer of the same year and it's been in my shop ever since and is hanging from the ceiling. It puts up with near freezing temps in the winter and over 100 in the summer but the volume is getting where it doesn't want to pop on until the set has been on for awhile and sometimes awhile can be over 8 hoursThat just started happening in the past couple of weeks.

 

[guy gadbois]

Those Triniton's were great TV's at the time. Sharp pictures...

wasn't 'trinitron' a sony deal? [NO sony in my house ever...] I just went and looked and ours doesnt say that on it.
Actually, we didnt buy the thing; my folks bought it for my then girlfriend/obviously fixin to be fiancee/now wife a couple of years before we got married for her to keep in her apartment as she didnt have one. Once we got married, it was still new and worked well and a newer bigger one just wasn't a priority. [if it was just me here, probably wouldnt even own one] Since then, its kind of gotten to be a 'thing' /point of pride/conversation starter; its hidden in a cabinet, and when people that don't know me well or service people [heat / ac or whatever] come in and notice there appears to be no lobotomy box in the house, most just 'have to ask'. Showing them the little RCA usually elicits a laugh from the 'more mature' and a stunned look of disbelief with a hint of fear from the young ones...

 

[65Bel]

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"Damn The Torpedoes, Full Speed Ahead"

 

[Cheapsunglasses]

 

[Kern Dog]

 

[Kern Dog]

 

[Richard Cranium]

 

[Richard Cranium]

 

[Richard Cranium]

 

[Richard Cranium]

 

[Cheapsunglasses]

 

[kiwigtx]

 

[moparedtn]

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Although we wish they would!

 

[Photon440]

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Bruno was popular enough around here that there was a band named after him.

 

[kiwigtx]

Bruno was popular enough around here that there was a band named after him.

I figured only Canadians, and a few select members would get that connection.

Watching that show was great as a youngster. Persephone could go anywhere.

 

[Kern Dog]

 

[Richard Cranium]

 

[YY1]

Where were you guys getting 17 and 26 inch TV's?

13, 19 and 25 were the round CRT tubes.

20 and 27 were the squared off later ones before LCD's.

 

[YY1]

I've been known to be kind of a Sony fan boy at times...but those wires holding the aperture grilles on their CRT's always bothered me.

 

[azblackhemi]