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
Exactly four years ago this video is what made me love antique television sets. I was 14 at the time and in the 8th grade.
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!
Pretty convenced this guy can fix anything from TVs and radios to the driveshaft on his car. Amazing videos keep 'Em coming!
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....
You know vintage TVs are built nice and solid when you can walk on top of them...
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...
wow, what a goldmine! I think I couldn't help but try to rescue everything!
You really need to reward that poor old van for all its hard graft, with a service!
Holy smokes, my head would spin looking around that place. Cool video.
I love old tv's
Like going back in time .. seeing the origin of all the sets in videos I’ve already seen you resurrect…
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.
I've always heard the term "Mother Load" but this is the first time I have actually seen one in person! Kewl
That place is freakin' awesome! I'd pitch a tent and never leave!
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.
You're right. Older sets like this would be vintage and retro.
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...
I was amazed by all those great antique TVs and then even more amazed by your skill. Is there anything you can't fix. LOL
This place is beyond pure awesome.
There WOULD have been a Hornet's Nest in there...And I WOULD have "Found" it...
This video makes you a legend mate…
I'd love to have some of the old radios if you grabbed any! That is what I like to restore
There were some real cool iconic ones. Those bakelight table top sets from the early 50s were especially cool.
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.
this collection of TV's represent America at its golden age it should be saved for next generations, god bless America or what is left of it.
4:15: dealer display for the Sylvania set with the slide projector
This is better than porn. I myself would go crazy for the record changers and consoles!
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.
I know this is an old video, but I'm curious does this place still exist??
I hope you grabbed that CTC-5 set outta there! WOW! I would have rented a U-haul & made a HAUL!
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
Yeah, it's my idea of heavan! :-D
JACKPOT! holly motherload of old telly's!
This has always been one of my favorite videos on youtube
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!
I wonder what would happen if you take some home and hook up digital converter boxes on them!
Hit the jackpot …
Died and went to heaven until the car craped out. And then the snow! 73 Leo
Nice video! I've never seen so many TV's in one place!
WOW, you have a lot of interesting things there.
What an amazing collection!
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.
Damn 4:10 he predicted all of it
That place is soo freaken awesome! I dig that turquise set at 6:01.
Wow!!! What a auction this stuff would make.
Or should i say a couple auctions.
4:20 America is eating itself from the inside out like some kind of virus
(2019 Forward) - And here we are!!!...
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.
what happened with that, stuff get soaked?
Darn I wanted to know what kind of bicycle that was.....
Its like a grave yard for old TV's!
It would be nice to have more back story on these technology hoards.
7:31 - I have that Hotpoint set - need a new bezel for it - what a trip, never expected to see another one
Incredible!!
nice collection of TV's, shame about the Poachers!!
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
Man I would b in vintage tv paradise wouldn't know what to take home 1st
heaven to me!!!!!
were saved???
greetings from chile.
el paraiso para mi !!!!!!!!!!!
saludos desde chile
was it the alternator?
Good
love vintage televison sets
That is an absolute amazing stash of old TV sets.
Great video. Hope the van ran well after the repairs made.
Snow in Oklahoma ? !
Blair Witch Project + Hoarders. An exciting find, but also overwhelming I bet.
Hmm. No dust
I can smell the dust through my screen.
Be grateful you haven't gotten a snoot full of rat fæces through your device.
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! :-)
You would get caught in the FIRST snowfall this season :)
I assume all this stuff went to the dump?
Wow, goldmine!
all those TV's being liquidated makes my stomach turn because most of those TV sets are collectable and some probebly fixable
Get A U-haul and start loading
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.
I this building not existing any more?
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
How can I buy one of them?? Mssg me!!
:))
It's looks like Ali - Baba treasure cavern!
DUDE WHY ARE YOU SO LUCKY???
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!
I found T.V Land :D
Would the Sylvania Duelettes or Halolights be worth anything? I don't see many of them for sale.
In that first place, do you know if any of them still work?
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?
You need a bigger truck!
WOW! that lot is worth at least 1 million dollars*
*turkish dollars.
*yen
I know he said that but i want to know why they don't
Wow where is this place? does the owner want to sell some more sets I would LOVE to have a few of the halo lights and a few other ones.
+MACMANJW Long gone
+shango066 figured so well atleast you saved some :)
+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
What a find! Where was this place?
did you pick one from there?
He said they don't exist anymore.
One mans' "dumpster material" is another mans' treasure. It's been my experience on EBay, at least, that all of the roundies sell for a lot of money.
where is this place
are the 3 buildings empty now??
Those wornout radio songs
Was the other guy from the eastern shore?
Where is this
Where are these where houses