On Monday, July 1, 2013 5:57:34 AM UTC-7, Dave Smith wrote:
> On 01/07/2013 8:44 AM, jmcquown wrote:
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> > On 6/30/2013 11:25 AM, Dave Smith wrote:
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> >> On 30/06/2013 10:35 AM, Cheri wrote:
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> >>> "Ophelia" > wrote in message
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> >>>> Mine is a Toshiba, dimensions approx 20" wide 24" tall and 15" deep.
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> >>>> It certainly isn't a huge thing. It sits on a nice coffee table with
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> >>>> the cable box sitting underneath. Plenty of space around it for
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> >>>> ornaments (if I were ornament minded, which I am not)
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> >>> I miss my console TV's. The cabinets were really pretty with lots of
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> >>> room on top to set things.
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> >> TVs used to be furniture. They were big wooden cabinets that housed the
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> >> TV electronics, and they sometimes had doors over the screens.
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> > My parents had one (1960-something) that also had a built-in record
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> > player on one side. It was a *big* piece of furniture.
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> The HiFi stereo my parents bought in 1964 as huge. It was a bout 6 feet
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> long 2 feet wide and close to 30 inches high. It had the speakers built
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> in at the ends with sliding doors to disguise them and a pop up top. It
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> was basically a large cabinet, a huge piece of furniture.

Zenith Radio used to own a furniture factory in Pennsylvania to build its cabinets. They divested it in the 1970s, around the same time they shut down their audio division (remember Zenith Circle of Sound?).