Color cover collection from Radio and TV News 1940s - 50s

Interesting photos from early radio and TV era.

https://airwavesephemera.wordpress.com/2018/08/04/radio-television-news-cover-collection/

Who knew they had projection TV back then.

 

Sadly they were all water damaged and moldy. I cut off the covers and scanned them. After scanning I washed off my scanner.

I have a few of the mags left and will hopefully go through them to scan anything of interest and dispose of. Black mold to an archive is bad business. Although my archive is not some pristine, mold free archive anyway. If I find the article on the aging device I will scan it for you before trashing the mag.

 

I found some sweat clothes from the early 80's in storage. They were made in the USA. I don't think we could do very well without China, et al. A guy at Walmart told me everything I had on from top to shoes was from China. And he was right.

Walmart had some frozen salmon. It said 'Harvested in the USA / Processed in China.' I guess it is cheaper to send salmon to China to be cleaned, frozen and shipped back than to do it in the US.

 

Yes, amazing stuff.

 

I wonder what the picture looked like in the projection TV. I had never seen anything like that. All the old TV's I've seen are the round, small tube models.

 

Since March 2018 I have scanned 27,000+ images. I'm scanning a nice collection of color page proofs from 1960's Japan right now.

Scanners are going all the time, I have a number of them. The only thing I hate scanning is negs and chromes. They takes some time. I prefer bulk scanning. Sheet fed scanner can scan front and back in one pass. Can scan hundreds in a day. Only problem is sheet fed are lower IQ than flat bed and they need constant cleaning. And if you scan comic books or matte black ink, it transfers to and ruins the rollers. Then the rollers transfer the matte black into to other originals run though the scanner. I've had many heartaches with scanners.

Flat bed scanners are not an issue with dirt so much. A speck of dirt on a sheet fed scanner draws a white or black line down the entire image. A speck on a flat bed is a speck.

If any of you have some oversize items up to 11 x 17 I'd be glad to scan for free...up to 600dpi. Provided they are interesting to me and I will put in my Archive as well as on the Internet Archive. I'd like a 20 x 24 inch scanner, but can get by 95% of the time with the 11 x 17 inch. If I knew how to stitch it would not matter I guess. But halftones may not stitch perfect and get a moire pattern, don't know.

Here is a 24 inch sheet fed scanner, but poor reviews.

https://www.amazon.com/Colortrac-SmartLF-Scan-Format-Scanner/dp/B016P989OI#customerReviews

Here is another large format scanner. But the price is crazy and you have to buy $$ software.

https://www.scantastik.com/hardware/contex-scanners/large-format-scanner-IQ-FLEX.html

...well, if I hit the lotto I will try one.

 

Yes, and look how them gals dressed up to cook! I'm not much of a history buff for text. But when it comes to photos I'm crazy about history.

 

Don't know about the jazz records, but they had em. Get some old copies of Downbeat. I have a bunch from the 40's that needs scanning, but don't know when I will get to em .

Here are some from the 1950's

https://jazzjointarchive.wordpress.com/

When I was a kid and we had TV trouble my mom would have me remove the tubes from the TV and she would drive me down to Thirfty's. They had a tube testing machine. You would stick the tube base into one of the dozens of sockets to test the tube. If you needed a tube you would pull one from the under the tester that had a door and storage for various tubes. For payment my mom would buy me an ice cream there. It was .05 cents a scoop / cylinder. (They had a cylinder type gun that would scoop out a cylinder of ice cream and push it out with the squeeze of the long trigger handle.) If the tubes didn't fix the TV, then we called the TV man. He had a big mirror in front of the TV that he would set up so he could look at the screen while fiddling with the TV. The TV's came in beautiful wood cabinets back then.

Over at the Audiokarma forums they have a thriving community in tube stereo. I wanted to get into tubes, but too $$ for me. All my $ for to photos.