Pluggers by Rick McKee for November 18, 2018

I don’t know what year it was made in, but I believe the most expensive piece of furniture I own is a rocking chair though which I once stuck my head in the mid/late 1980s (I was two then).

oh oh

Thus the saying “They don’t make them like they did in the old days”

Is that 1970’s dollars or 2018 dollars? Just asking. ;-}

don’t know how old but the dressers are solid wood no plywood at all

Zenith was the set to have back then. RCA was there too!

actually Magnavox was better known for the quality of it’s woodwork consoles.

what a difference in that from the black rectangles we have now. anyone still have a nice wooden stereo cabinet that opened from the top to give access to the turn table? And from the front to show the speakers?

With the 4 button acoustic “space command” remote control. When the phone rang, the tv volume would increase …

We had an even bigger one than pictured, with the round tube that used to be how color screens were made. But the most expensive piece of furniture is the La-Z-Boy couch.

Jeff Fpxworthy “You might be a red neck if you have a working portable TV on top of a non-profit working console” My parents did that. His definition of “redneck” was “a glorious lack of sophistifcation.”

I had one of those TV sets. It lasted for almost 30 years even though a couple of tubes needed to be replaced once in a long time. I liked that better than what is available now, but they just don’t make those old console TVs any more. And, those new sets don’t last anywhere near as long either.

My parents got a Phillips blender as a wedding present (1968). It lasted 40 years. Its replacement (also Phillips) lasted 5. As for the Plugger here, that TV may work fine, but unless they have a digital converter, it won’t pick up any local channels.

If anybody asks, that’d be ME behind the console with a mirror in front, adjusting the controls for “a best picture” back in the day.. Sears Service calls were 5 bucks plus parts. Amazing what ‘little fingers’ could find back there to see what that happened when they twisted THAT !!…and no, their electronics weren’t cheaply made, for they were sub-contracted out from many quality manufacturers.

Ours was bigger & Dad made it from HeathKit.

made from real wood

TVs are much better now.

The artist has done his research (or has a good memory): that’s a pretty good representation of a Zenith console of the mid-late ’70s. Of course pretty much all manufacturers had console TVs that looked like that from about 1970-82.

And you know you’re a plugger if you still have the original bilious brown/olive green shag carpet that was bought the same year as that TV. Looks like Henrietta hasn’t redecorated since she bought that TV in ’71 so she could watch Gunsmoke in color!

That sure looks like the one I once had. After the tube went I sat the ugly black plastic box that replaced it on top of it. So far the ugly has survived for 22 years. It has a bit to go to equal its predecessor.

The most expensive piece of furniture we have is a 1982 Sears Microwave (I think that might count as furniture, as big as it is). My husband and I got it as an engagement present from my parents. It is huge, is underpowered compared to today’s microwaves, but it still works and is used just about every day. Sure has outlasted almost everything else.