Looks like I'm not alone! I'm 15 and have been into antique radios and televisions for about a year and a half now. Awesome to meet another vintage electronics enthusiast my age!
Absolutely incredible find, fortunately the scrappers didn't do much damage. It's so stupid, how some people will destroy an item worth hundreds of $ just for a few cents worth of copper. Here in NB (Canada) it's almost impossible to find a CRT set in the trash that hasn't had the back smashed in for someone to grab the deflection yoke. And good luck finding any discarded appliance of any kind with the power cord still intact....
This video takes me back to my childhood. Back in the 70s our town had a place called "The Old Curiosity Shop." Owned by a friendly old hermit. One room was full of old radios & TVs. I was a kid back then and had no money to buy anything, but I did take pictures of the place. I recently found some of those pictures I took while cleaning out my folks estate. To my amazement there was an RCA CT-100 in one of the pics! Looked brand new. The place was torn-down in the 90s. I hope someone realized the value...
Makes my collection of 50-75 tube TV's look like nothing. I have one color roundie - a Sylvania almost identical to the one at 8:59. Glad to see you were able to save these from the landfill, at least someone cares about preserving television history. Man, what a find!
Welcome to a place called TV Junk Land where you can see the rarest and oldest TV sets ever put out on the planet. This is what this video is about, “Shango066 in TV Wonderland”
4:11 this is more relevant today than ever, you are truly a smart man to have seen the truth of the festering mess that is America all the way back 9 years ago.
Wow, that's an amazing amount of TV's! I have found one place like that which was a repair shop, maybe not quite as big and was able to get about 25 sets from it. I actually have a barn which looks almost identical to this place you were at but with maybe 1/4 of the stuff, I am working to get it all hauled to the building downtown.
@retrochad My mother had a first gen Aerostar, but it died. So we got a second gen one in 1994, we had that till about 2006ish. No rust or major mechanical problems.
In Denmark we had dear guests coming from like places of Molvania, and ripping hundreds of yards of signal cabling right out of the railway network at night, selling it to the scrapper the next morning. After the railways paid the scrappers a better bounty than they could earn on the cables, the thieves were soon all located, detained and expelled (only to return 2 weeks later). Meanwhile, the railways went through an expensive operation to replace copper signal cable with iron clad copper, having no scrap value. You have to be real poor to bother with the 50 grams of copper in TV wiring...
Amazing video. This is archeology of 20 century consumer goods. All those roundies!! I wish a container of those tvs appeared in the UK. Just wondering if any digital 'freeview' tuners output NTSC instead of PAL... I really hope most of those TVs went to collectors and other good homes and didn't go to a waste recycler. I would love to get a 1960's colour 'roundie' from the US.
Every other one of those consoles reminded me of my dad's 1965 Muntz 1516. The green, and white phonograph also reminded me of what I had when I was 10 years old, a 1960 Zenith BP7F.
AWESOME! I've been looking into buying an old TV for months now and have yet to come across anything for a decent price locally. This is like hitting the jackpot.
That looks like one of the first-generation Aerostars, I can tell because of the Ford logo in the center of the grille rather than the top. I have not seen one of these in ages. I had a U-joint fall out completely on my Grand Marquis and the driveshaft hit the ground and was bent. Luckily I was one mile from the repair shop and had it towed and had the shop rebuild the driveline. I was feeling vibration but did not heed the warning soon enough that time and learned my lesson.
this is just amazing how you find all this vintage stuff you must be a magnet for this how do you find all this stuff you even fix cars you are amazing .are you a car mechanic as well you are a really talented guy
Holy Crap! That is one huge stash of TVs!! I wonder how many years they have been stored there for? I couldn't believe what I was seeing while watching this. Hope you got some good sets out of there. Great video!
How do people let this sort of thing happen, thats ALOT of stuff to collect over the years! The two roundies at the front of the 1st warehouse look like RCA CTC-12s. Looks to be located the northeast or upper midwest. Be thankful that you have a Cali car, years of salt would have made that u-joint job a royal PITA. Thats likely the first snow and salt that van has seen.
family had a fan like that and the extended one too. they had some trouble and stuff. i liked the radio and ac controls in the back though. wish could listen to 2 different things at the same time too. i hit one of these vans trying to roller blade. i dented the hood in the middle >.> that is a lot of tv's too.
I really liked this video great scores I hope that you found great stuff . I hope the truck and you got home in one piece . do you still have posted the video of you playing an elton john record while demonstrating some speakers you had . I only saw it once and was looking for it to view all the best great video and what a treasure of tv's keep the great videos coming
Not necessarily. There are many people who collect televisions, and may want a cool 50's set for their collection (me for example. The oldest I have is 1970s). There are also old timers who want an old set as a reminder of days, or people who want one because it would look 'funky' in their living room or bedroom. The parts (especially the picture tube) can also be valuable to collectors, restorers and museums. If you ever have a 50's set you want to throw out, contact me! :-)
Wow! Were these places part of someone's estate, or just abandoned? Sure brings back memories of days long ago. And how little of our habits have changed with all the TVs I see being tossed becuz of the digital switch. :( Think you needed one of those big rigs for this expedition. Looks like you could have been up in my neck of the woods (Buffalo) with the snowstorm you were in. And yes, the other posters are right about your van--our road salt sent anything like it to the crushers long ago.
man there has to be 30 k in stuffs there do not throw that stuff away . do not scrap / the vacuum tubes some are worth 100$ a piece. they do not make them Anny more but people still use them. those small tv sets with vacuum tubes are worth bucks people. i get a tv like that and i sell them in a second. i wish i found that place. if you do not think so give them to me ill take care of all that stuff. ill rent a uhall and clean that place out. cant say id live with them in my house till i soldem
Who what and where??? Is this warehouse completely abandoned? Are you going to get to have most of that stuff? I could use one of those portable chrome TV stands for my 1960 Admiral. Could you possibly sell one to me? That place is like a dream come true!
Was linked to this video from Videokarma site, WOW what a massive stash of vintage sets!!! Do you have any figures on what sets were saved by collectors who've visited the site? I sincerely hope at least the more rarer n valueable colour n B&W sets were saved. That set at 0:56-1:15 is it a 1956 RCA CTC-5 n did that set get saved? If these warehouses were in Australia I can imagine the 50s/60s sets would be all B&W sets of brands like Astor, Kriesler, AWA, HMV, Philips, PYE etc...
What was the story behind this place? Was the owner a collector or television technician? I've never heard of, let alone seen, a place with this many televisions under one roof. By the way, which ones did you get?
+MACMANJW 4 of us went through them, you should recognize most of us ;) we got most everything that was good, most had dead crts or were trashed. The ctc58 you found is a sweet set, hang on to that one for life