Zenith TV: A quart of things to think about before you buy a television set

from National Geographic (1953)

Magazine advertising of the 1950s

Zenith: Achieved in the tradition of Quality

from National Geographic (1952)

The New Zenith Cobra-Matic

Zenith's Trans-Oceanic Portable Radio

From National Geographic, 1950

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Yours, 62 years later, for $37.55 on ebay.  (You're probably too late if this post is vintage.)

Zenith Television's Reflection-Proof Blaxide Tube

The Year 1951 in Television:

• Amahl and the Night Visitors is the first opera written for television. 
• Coast-To-coast live television becomes possible. 
• Milton Berle signs a 30-year contract with NBC.
• Television covers the U.S. Senate hearings on crime. 
• The NAACP condemns Amos 'n' Andy as racism on TV. 

Take it Easy! with the Zenith "Lazy Bones" Remote Control (and The Honeymooners!)

That "only $30" in 1950 translates into a 2012 expenditures of $286.41.

But I suppose if you could afford a TV back then, you could also spring for the remote.

The 1950 Zenith "Chippendale" Radio-Phonograph helps those wild and crazy teens cut a rug

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