I sometimes think that these old TVs actually ARE better than modern ones. Yes, they burn out tubes in a year or two, consume a lot of power, are only 4:3, and so forth, BUT! But I dont need to sign a contract with Google to use my effing TV.
@@goofyahhslimjackson1942 Yes, vacuum tubes make great radios and amps, but aren't well suited for tasks as demanding as a TV sets. And yes, the 70s and 80s sets, even though junk ones also existed, were often the most reliable. I remember our 1986 set, a big one still with a nice woodgrain cabinet. Lasted well into the 2000s, when one gun crapped out, after almost 20 yrs of daily use! It was replaced with a flat face CRT Panasonic, which had a great picture, I couldn't tell a difference to the upcoming flatscreens from normal distance at least. That one was toast aftet just a few years though.
@@goofyahhslimjackson1942 honestly, for overall picture quality there's not much to beat an early FHD plasma set but CRT boxes have the best overall combination of picture, sound and aesthetics (pair a nice late 70s wood effect tv with a betamax or even an early VHS machine and I'm all set to drool
I only run old Viera plasmas. Good quality sets, excellent picture, reliable and if I want smart functionality I can plug it into the hdmi socket at the back. And because everyone now is obsessed with 4K and built-in smart, they're dirt cheap.
I bet back when this lady bought this TV, she lived in a pretty decent neighborhood. Imagine living in a place and growing old while the 'hood falls to sh-- around you... Must have been frustrating and terrifying to live through that kind of shift.
I live in a modest 1960s home for working class people. Its a small house.... I see homeless people here too in Canada too now. That was never a thing here. I'm 50 years old lived here most of my life. I never saw a tent city until a few years ago. I never saw pan handlers until a few years ago. Never saw a junky or person OD on a sidewalk until last summer. I wonder how we ended up like this.
@@nos9341 the governments allowed this, Same here in the states, overrun with All kinds of People, Comming over the open wide Borders, Here our gov. literally now refuses to do any thing about this as well. Its really going down hill. Seems canada is now following the U.s as well, what both governments need is better leaders that actually will care what goes on and not let the 2 countries fall victim to being overrun and Turned into Another third world country, We all need do better to stop this from happening, as decades ago every thing was better, and simpler as well.
Here is a little bit of information for you about that television the Olympic. Olympic was a very small company that only made radios and phonographs for quite a few years. They only made televisions I believe for about 3 years. And from what I remember in my research that Oriental cabinet is very rare. Olympic was a very small company based in Long Island City New York not too far from where I was born raised and grew up. In the 1970s the streets were littered with radios and phonographs of people discarding them for newer sets but the TVs in general were very scarce because they was not a whole lot of them made. I collect a lot of small tube radios and I do have a bunch of Olympic radios and a couple of record players.
Wow. I did not even know this brand existed until now. That such a rare thing is even being documented is awesome! Throughout the video I kept wondering if that was a Japanese set, not because of the cabinet but because it's just a little bit weird. Like that record player has a weird cartridge and the TV portion reminds me of the Hitachi set Shango featured not too long ago.
I've never worked on an Olympic TV, but I have a mid '60's Olympic console stereo (series-string tube chassis) and an Olympic AM radio and record player consolette from about 1957. By the early '70's, I think the name had been sold and I have a circa '72 Olympic "all in one" stereo that looks like a re-badged Electrophonic.
@@Xplasma1 At the very top of the AM/FM band display it says Made in USA. Very rare though. First time I've ever heard of the Olympic brand. Cool find!
The museum was saying a couple of months ago they were nearly ready to attempt a CRT rebuild. I have no idea how much further they've come since then. I am worried about the fact the knowledge solely rests with a group of 70+ year old men. They need to pass on their skills to a few younger guys, largely for practical reasons as unfortunately no man lives forever. We are reaching the point where knowledge is at risk of being lost.
I love watching your channel as you go through the diagnosis of these TV’s. It reminds me so much of my childhood with my dad repairing TVs and old Ham radios. It is a shame that this is becoming a lost art in our disposable society. I have used the my dad’s art of diagnosis to help me along with my career in computer repair.
Hand in hand with this seems to a loss of appreciation for those that can fix things. "Your just weird". While they throw things away and just buy another.
olympic radio/ t.v. company was made in new york( long island city) my dad worked for a company that did multi- function sales/ service, and they sold" olympic" in the early 50's
Thanks for not allowing url links. Spammers usually post url links anyway. Nice tv combo! Imagine. Tv sets were dangerous! Flat screens, not so much. (No CRT to implode)
What a truly gorgeous cabinet design! That art is something else.. would love to see the whole thing restored, but in the meantime I am anxiously awaiting the resurrection videos!
12:40 There's a lovely chap in Houston called Ron known on TH-cam as glasslinger. He can build tubes from scratch so might be worth having a chat with him.
The speakers are stamped Arkay. Arkay used to sell radio,hi-fi and television kits,like Heathkit did back in the 50’s and 60’s. I believe they were based in Queens,New York. Westinghouse also used the same bsr changers in their portable units.
The 1950 and sixties some people would decorate their home in what they called Chinese modern and I think this was part of a furniture sit. I seen it once in a Lucy sitcom where one of her friends supposedly was decorating in Chinese modern.
I could swear there is a late 1950s/early 1960s Zenith on this channel that had a similar Chinese black lacquerware finish with gold highlights. I think it had doors on the front.
I took electronics in the 90s and I love watching your videos because literally all the Repair guys that would come in have such a similar demeanor of being generally unimpressed with the world. I always get yelled at when I say stuff like “of course we have to listen to the leaf blower in the background.” I have been laughing so hard watching your stuff I enjoy the electronics part but for me your persona is what has brought me back
Hi from the uk. The turntable is BSR (some were badged as Monarch)and made in the UK. These turntables were very popular from around 1959-1964. Hope you get it working. Great video as always. Cheers Chris.
My parents bought a new B&W TV from Sears and Robuck Co around 1960. It was a Silvertone TV, AM/FM/Phono combo that was configured just like that one only it had a regular wood finish cabinet and did not have any doors. I still have that TV somewhere in storage. The last time it was powered up was back around 1975 and the picture was weak. I had already installed a picture tube brightener. Back in those days I did not know how they worked but now I do. I might have to do a restore on it someday.
The only animal that can chew more than a rabbit would be a chinchilla. I have owned rabbits and I own two chinchillas now. They're like little mulching mowers. They destroy wood as a matter of course - both for entertainment and dental maintenance as their teeth grow constantly. They also chew and destroy pumice stones on the regular.
Olympic was a off brand (minor player or value brand) radio and tv company out of Long Island New York. Sometime in the late 50's or early 60's was purchased by Lear Siegler Industries (LSI) and gone by 1971. The focus strap was omitted or connected for whatever position produced the best focus. So-called self focusing CRT. I worked on many 50's - 60's TV's that followed me home on trash day. My misspent youth in the 1970's. Dual Stereo was a selling point as many combo units were stereo phono and mono radio. This unit was stereo radio and phono or an multiplex decoder could be fitted.
@@vancouverman4313 I have found several US TVs near Nato bases but most of them were '60s to '80s sets. The early-mid '50s ones were imported because US-made TVs were cheaper than the italian models, I have also a 1953 Westinhouse, a 1953 Zenith, a '52 GE and several others. In the 60's there was a man from Florence that bought Zenith color roundies TVs and sell them with an homebuilt PAL module
Olympic was manufactured in Long Island City, Long Island NY. My aunt gave me her Olympic console hifi years ago. My uncle bought it for her as a gift in 1959, purchased from a store on Jamaica Ave. Queens NY. It still works! Has the same turntable you have as well as a am radio. I fire it up every once in a while and play the very 45's she gave me on it. Good luck with the resto!
First TV I ever messed around with in the mid 60s was an Olympic. Blondwood cabinet and legs like yours. An uncle warned me of possible high voltage stored somewhere even if unplugged. That thought scared me and may of saved my life as I was on a damp concrete cellar floor! I also have an early Olympic transistor radio that has its 4 transistors in tube sockets.
The neighbors across the street from me had a set that looked very similar to that one, back in the late 60's, but I seem to recall it as being a larger model with no legs. Maybe it just seemed bigger because I was smaller back then. They were into the Asian black lacquer look that seemed to be a fairly popular thing at the time. Thanks again for the videos.
it will be a good set that! Just hope that the Flyback (LOPT as we say in Britain) is OK. The record deck is British by the way. A BSR (Birmingham Sound Reproducers) UA Deck - The Monarch I think. Good deck if the idler wheel is OK. Radio is pretty standard as well. EL84 and I think ECL82 in British Numbering. I look forward to this. As a matter of fact I am coming to live in the states (Ohio) in the next 18 months or so and will be wanting sets......
pretty sure i've seen circuit details of a uk radiogram using ecl82 and el84 for stereo outputs, probably done for cheapness just one extra valve to add an extra channel to a standard mono radio chassis
We had one of these when I was a kid but in a blonde cabinet. Despite the fancy oriental cabinet shown here, these were not high end sets. It had a problem with loud hum whenever white text was on the screen, something I eventually learned when I got much older was called "incidental carrier phase modulation". No one could fix the problem but we used it like that for a good 10 years.
In Roseberg Oregon, in about 2002, a rescue mission thrift store was about to throw out a larger longer Olympic phono stereo TV from about 1959 or 1960. It was same motif as this, black lacquer, sliding doors in Oriental theme. I saved it and kept it for about 14 years. I loved and miss that I no longer own it . It was far from working , but still nice. and relatively complete. Evidently the new owner after me took it apart and made a booze cabinet out of it. I surely wish I would have kept it in that case.
FIRE !! , like our Almeda fire in S. Or 2019. Just amazing how fast the devastation was 1000's out of a place to live. Many are still reeling from the total loss.
These different brands are kinda cool as well. Like the oriental drawings on the cabinet. The vacuum picture bulb (VPB) is a good sign that it will work. Looking forward to hopefully see this work. That trailer park might as well be living in an apartment with the little spacing between units. Not far from me is a residential area with full size houses really packed together as well. The houses basically look all the same.
Olympic was a radio and phonograph company. I don't know the history but I owned a few of units from the 1940s. They were made very well. The turntable in this looks to be a German design. The same found in Telefunken and Grundig units.
I tried looking through old Sears catalogs from 1958-1961 but they only show their own Silvertone lineup of sets. I’m glad you were able to rescue the Olympic from being turned into a hipster bar,dog bed or fish tank. I like the design of the control panel bezels. I look forward to seeing it work again.
4:41 . . . Olympic was ahead of the game with the extended AM band on this tuner! I like how instead of MC and KC on the right side of the dial scale, they have Hi Fi
“Kathleen Jason-Finnen”, Olympic made televisions for far longer than 3 years. Their model RTU-3H “Duplicator” goes back as far as 1948 and I know they made tv’s at least until the 60’s. Supposedly production ceased in 1971. Zenith and other brands also offered black lacquer “Chinese modern” TVs and hi-fi consoles. It was a fad for a while.
Olympic is like Packard Bell, they were more common in the East as PB was more common in the West. They were owned by Lear Siegler from 1958 until the early 70s. Quality wise, I would say they were comparable to Emerson. An average product. A lot of their TVs were series string hot chassis sets. Looking forward to the resurrection video!
There's a company in either Michigan or Minnesota which rebuilds (re-guns?) aviation/avionics-related CRT's. Let me do some digging through my "avionics department files" (three cardboard boxes, and keys for an old PA-23 Aztec), and I'll forward the info, if found...
Just before the advent of multiplex FM stereo, some AM FM tuners were made to where the FM played through one channel and the AM portion of the tuner played through the second channel. A stereo broadcast could then be simulcast over one FM radio channel and the other through an AM radio channel creating a stereo program. This lasted for only a year or so and never caught on.
The Avionics CRT rebuilder turned out to be in New York, not MI or MN. Thomas Electronics is the name of the company, I'd sent a display from an MU2-J to them in 2009, it was a 6-inch Sharp green-screen CRT, with an 'arcing problem inside the gun'. I couldn't find the invoice from them, however, the invoice sent to the FBO for which I did the repairs, was just under $920.00 USD. The HV section of the display required certification of no coronal discharge "up to, and including 25,000--ft"; which means that I had to seal the new flyback at ALL connection points, especially the anode lead. I'm guessing that the re-gun cost somewhere between $700.00 and $750.00. The turn-around time was five days, including FedEx overnight service (same shipping zone).
We've still got a few trailer parks like that in AZ, but they're fading fast as developers buy them up for generic apartment blocks. The land is leased to the trailers, and the trailers can't be moved (good luck moving or affording to move a 60 year old trailer), and the folks in them are usually older or just straight up poor... so they end up taking a total loss on their home and having to move a billion miles out into shithole exurbs and small towns. And of course, when they get there, they can only afford dumps worse than where they came from.
Just waiting for George Jetson to come around the corner..... I bet that when the TV was turned on at night the house lights would dim a bit. Thanks for posting.....
I am sure you will figure this out very quick but when you decide to do the resurrection video on this Olympic TV the television chassis I am 95% sure has its own audio output stage looking at the video I see the output Transformer mounted on the top of the chassis and it looks like the speaker wire is running to the other side where the radio is the speeding you should just be able to hook up an independent speaker to get sound without going through the radio. Don't hold me to it but I am pretty sure that's how this unit is set up from my past experience. I look forward to seeing that television Play Because as I remember from decades ago they had very very nice picture quality and because that's CRT is in good shape and should throw a really beautiful picture
Olympic sets were more common here on the east coast in the NY/NJ area. Our neighbors had a similar set, I believe it was the same chassis with a more conventional cabinet. I worked on it a few times ages ago and I remember the radio/record changer layout and the 6x9 speakers being just like that.
Considering what they want for them on eBay it is an expensive set. Same basic set was made in different cabinet styles and I bet this one was is the rarest. 1960 looks like the end of the line for that brand. Can't wait to see what you can do with it.
You would be nuts to not restore this and just resurrect it. While none of this old stuff could ever be made today, this unit is doubly so. The ree-ing around cultural appropriate would be glorious. This is very stylish and rare. You really need to restore it.
Don't know about TV sets , but the stereo consoles with that oriental look cabinets are bring big $$$$$$... mainly because they were rare to begin with...
It’s a good thing your windshield was already cracked for the trip to Compton. Interesting set! I’ve seen an Olympic TV console with a Bogen stereo receiver in it. The tuner/amp chassis in your set may have been made by Bogen.
Interesting find! So Telefunken wasn't the only one that used different tubes in their "stereo" channels. My Allegro uses an EL84 for one channel and an ECL86 for the other. Early 60's set, FM but no multiplex. Love your videos.
The FCC approved the Zenith GE system of multiplex stereo in April of 1961, with the first broadcasts on June 1st. By then most FM tuners had a multiplex jack on the rear chassis apron. These picked off the signal right from the detector, before deemphasis.
My father bought a Motorola console hi-fi in 1961 and later when I was in electronics school in the 70s I worked on that unit and found that there was a small 2 tube chassis about the size of a half pint milk carton that was plugged into the main chassis that turned out to be the stereo mux unit. Dad told me that when he ordered the console they hadn't yet decided on the standard for stereo FM and that when they did the dealer would come to the house and install the multiplexer that would be built to the decided upon standard which is what they did.
That is a nice set I miss when TVs had style even in the 80s they still had style but not anymore. Like you say about Philco all style no substance new TVs are no style no substance
Just scored this same unit yesterday, but no tv! I was elated to find your video and see what it originally looked like. Would love to see the rebuild if you were sucessful, and if there are options to restore mine to its former glory! Interesting to add the artist on mine is Delores Dimas. All one of a kind art on these. Believe they were made by Union furniture in NY.
This is a great example of Chinese Modern! Ultra cool right down to the terrific speaker grill cloth. Once you resarect it, send it to B Anderson! It'll be a masterpiece once restored! Retro Design wise, you can't get better than this! He'll send the record player to Radiophononut for mechanical restoration. Just do it!!!
If there are 2 separate tuners (One for FM and one for AM) that you could play through the speaker independently, that was early stereo. One station on FM playing the one channel, and the AM playing the other channel. Heard the Lawrence Welk tv show was simulcasted that way.
Dual stereo is from 58 to 60 and what that means is what channel is the FM in one channel is the a.m. and that’s how they were doing stereo for those two years and they discontinued it shortly there after
Please, please, please...try to make a longer resurrection soon. I know some people don't like them, but I absolutely love them. I mean, I have to wait a week in between your videos most times.....
Yes as soon as I can get caught up on my obligations I have a lot of stuff around here that will require intense resurrections. Probably won't be until February
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I sometimes think that these old TVs actually ARE better than modern ones. Yes, they burn out tubes in a year or two, consume a lot of power, are only 4:3, and so forth, BUT! But I dont need to sign a contract with Google to use my effing TV.
Also they have better sound and look much better
Solid state ones from the 60s to the 80s are the best. Very reliable and minimal issues.
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Yes, vacuum tubes make great radios and amps, but aren't well suited for tasks as demanding as a TV sets.
And yes, the 70s and 80s sets, even though junk ones also existed, were often the most reliable.
I remember our 1986 set, a big one still with a nice woodgrain cabinet. Lasted well into the 2000s, when one gun crapped out, after almost 20 yrs of daily use! It was replaced with a flat face CRT Panasonic, which had a great picture, I couldn't tell a difference to the upcoming flatscreens from normal distance at least. That one was toast aftet just a few years though.
@@goofyahhslimjackson1942 honestly, for overall picture quality there's not much to beat an early FHD plasma set but CRT boxes have the best overall combination of picture, sound and aesthetics (pair a nice late 70s wood effect tv with a betamax or even an early VHS machine and I'm all set to drool
I only run old Viera plasmas. Good quality sets, excellent picture, reliable and if I want smart functionality I can plug it into the hdmi socket at the back. And because everyone now is obsessed with 4K and built-in smart, they're dirt cheap.
I bet back when this lady bought this TV, she lived in a pretty decent neighborhood. Imagine living in a place and growing old while the 'hood falls to sh-- around you... Must have been frustrating and terrifying to live through that kind of shift.
My sentiments exactly....
Which is why grandma needs a AK47.
I live in a modest 1960s home for working class people.
Its a small house....
I see homeless people here too in Canada too now.
That was never a thing here.
I'm 50 years old lived here most of my life.
I never saw a tent city until a few years ago.
I never saw pan handlers until a few years ago.
Never saw a junky or person OD on a sidewalk until last summer.
I wonder how we ended up like this.
@@nos9341 the governments allowed this, Same here in the states, overrun with All kinds of People, Comming over the open wide Borders, Here our gov. literally now refuses to do any thing about this as well. Its really going down hill. Seems canada is now following the U.s as well, what both governments need is better leaders that actually will care what goes on and not let the 2 countries fall victim to being overrun and Turned into Another third world country, We all need do better to stop this from happening, as decades ago every thing was better, and simpler as well.
Here is a little bit of information for you about that television the Olympic. Olympic was a very small company that only made radios and phonographs for quite a few years. They only made televisions I believe for about 3 years. And from what I remember in my research that Oriental cabinet is very rare. Olympic was a very small company based in Long Island City New York not too far from where I was born raised and grew up. In the 1970s the streets were littered with radios and phonographs of people discarding them for newer sets but the TVs in general were very scarce because they was not a whole lot of them made. I collect a lot of small tube radios and I do have a bunch of Olympic radios and a couple of record players.
Very interesting. Thank you.
Wow. I did not even know this brand existed until now. That such a rare thing is even being documented is awesome!
Throughout the video I kept wondering if that was a Japanese set, not because of the cabinet but because it's just a little bit weird. Like that record player has a weird cartridge and the TV portion reminds me of the Hitachi set Shango featured not too long ago.
I've never worked on an Olympic TV, but I have a mid '60's Olympic console stereo (series-string tube chassis) and an Olympic AM radio and record player consolette from about 1957. By the early '70's, I think the name had been sold and I have a circa '72 Olympic "all in one" stereo that looks like a re-badged Electrophonic.
@@Xplasma1 At the very top of the AM/FM band display it says Made in USA. Very rare though. First time I've ever heard of the Olympic brand. Cool find!
because there* was not
Shango is the best on youtube.....nobody in the world could make rabbit poop and dead spiders compelling viewing.
The museum was saying a couple of months ago they were nearly ready to attempt a CRT rebuild. I have no idea how much further they've come since then. I am worried about the fact the knowledge solely rests with a group of 70+ year old men. They need to pass on their skills to a few younger guys, largely for practical reasons as unfortunately no man lives forever. We are reaching the point where knowledge is at risk of being lost.
Exactly why we couldn't build Saturn 5's now.
I love watching your channel as you go through the diagnosis of these TV’s. It reminds me so much of my childhood with my dad repairing TVs and old Ham radios. It is a shame that this is becoming a lost art in our disposable society. I have used the my dad’s art of diagnosis to help me along with my career in computer repair.
Hand in hand with this seems to a loss of appreciation for those that can fix things. "Your just weird". While they throw things away and just buy another.
Turntable is a BSR model from England, "custom" version of the UA14. Cartridge is (or was!) the TC8S. Already identified!
That cabinet looks so pretty! I therefore dub this the Oh!-lympic. Also: the record player is a British BSR UA14.
it does look nice.
I wonder if the grease on the changer gear has turned to glue.
olympic radio/ t.v. company was made in new york( long island city) my dad worked for a company that did multi- function sales/ service, and they sold" olympic" in the early 50's
They were part of Unitronics and merged with Lear-Siegler Corporation in 1957.
That looks like decent quality. Might be good candidate for complete restore. Unusual cabinet.
Thanks for not allowing url links. Spammers usually post url links anyway.
Nice tv combo! Imagine. Tv sets were dangerous! Flat screens, not so much. (No CRT to implode)
What a truly gorgeous cabinet design! That art is something else.. would love to see the whole thing restored, but in the meantime I am anxiously awaiting the resurrection videos!
12:40 There's a lovely chap in Houston called Ron known on TH-cam as glasslinger. He can build tubes from scratch so might be worth having a chat with him.
I like the cabinet. The TV looks in decent shape. As everyone else has pointed out the record player is a BSR. :)
Shango. The fusion of entertainment and enlightenment.
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It's a georgeous set!
Can't imagine the debt incurred to own this TV in 1960. Probably paid dearly for it for years
The speakers are stamped Arkay. Arkay used to sell radio,hi-fi and television kits,like Heathkit did back in the 50’s and 60’s. I believe they were based in Queens,New York.
Westinghouse also used the same bsr changers in their portable units.
The 1950 and sixties some people would decorate their home in what they called Chinese modern and I think this was part of a furniture sit. I seen it once in a Lucy sitcom where one of her friends supposedly was decorating in Chinese modern.
I could swear there is a late 1950s/early 1960s Zenith on this channel that had a similar Chinese black lacquerware finish with gold highlights. I think it had doors on the front.
The future is the 60s. That's what my grandpa told me. I agree with him.
I took electronics in the 90s and I love watching your videos because literally all the Repair guys that would come in have such a similar demeanor of being generally unimpressed with the world.
I always get yelled at when I say stuff like “of course we have to listen to the leaf blower in the background.” I have been laughing so hard watching your stuff
I enjoy the electronics part but for me your persona is what has brought me back
Hi from the uk. The turntable is BSR (some were badged as Monarch)and made in the UK. These turntables were very popular from around 1959-1964. Hope you get it working. Great video as always. Cheers Chris.
monarch was a model name used by bsr for several of their models,
My parents bought a new B&W TV from Sears and Robuck Co around 1960. It was a Silvertone TV, AM/FM/Phono combo that was configured just like that one only it had a regular wood finish cabinet and did not have any doors. I still have that TV somewhere in storage. The last time it was powered up was back around 1975 and the picture was weak. I had already installed a picture tube brightener. Back in those days I did not know how they worked but now I do. I might have to do a restore on it someday.
I love the cabinet artwork on the tv unit. It’s very different as I’ve never seen a tv cabinet like that. ❤️☺️
The only animal that can chew more than a rabbit would be a chinchilla. I have owned rabbits and I own two chinchillas now. They're like little mulching mowers. They destroy wood as a matter of course - both for entertainment and dental maintenance as their teeth grow constantly. They also chew and destroy pumice stones on the regular.
Olympic was a off brand (minor player or value brand) radio and tv company out of Long Island New York. Sometime in the late 50's or early 60's was purchased by Lear Siegler Industries (LSI) and gone by 1971.
The focus strap was omitted or connected for whatever position produced the best focus. So-called self focusing CRT. I worked on many 50's - 60's TV's that followed me home on trash day. My misspent youth in the 1970's.
Dual Stereo was a selling point as many combo units were stereo phono and mono radio. This unit was stereo radio and phono or an multiplex decoder could be fitted.
That's the way to learn as a kid - playing with what was tossed out.
This is what happens when you buy rabbit ears for your television at the pet store.
What a Kool 1960 Olympic televisis am fm phone combo
Hello from Italy! I have an Olympic TV, built in 1954, that I should resuscitate... very well built
Maybe your Olympic came from a US military base in Italy where they had a broadcasting station that broadcast in the NTSC format.
@@vancouverman4313 Well, if it's a B/W TV it shouldn't matter what color standard is used.
@@vancouverman4313 I have found several US TVs near Nato bases but most of them were '60s to '80s sets. The early-mid '50s ones were imported because US-made TVs were cheaper than the italian models, I have also a 1953 Westinhouse, a 1953 Zenith, a '52 GE and several others. In the 60's there was a man from Florence that bought Zenith color roundies TVs and sell them with an homebuilt PAL module
That’s a beautiful combo set
Olympic was manufactured in Long Island City, Long Island NY. My aunt gave me her Olympic console hifi years ago. My uncle bought it for her as a gift in 1959, purchased from a store on Jamaica Ave. Queens NY. It still works! Has the same turntable you have as well as a am radio. I fire it up every once in a while and play the very 45's she gave me on it. Good luck with the resto!
Man, I love your content.
First TV I ever messed around with in the mid 60s was an Olympic. Blondwood cabinet and legs like yours. An uncle warned me of possible high voltage stored somewhere even if unplugged. That thought scared me and may of saved my life as I was on a damp concrete cellar floor! I also have an early Olympic transistor radio that has its 4 transistors in tube sockets.
That's an absolutely gorgeous set. Previous owner had great taste.
The neighbors across the street from me had a set that looked very similar to that one, back in the late 60's, but I seem to recall it as being a larger model with no legs. Maybe it just seemed bigger because I was smaller back then. They were into the Asian black lacquer look that seemed to be a fairly popular thing at the time. Thanks again for the videos.
it will be a good set that! Just hope that the Flyback (LOPT as we say in Britain) is OK. The record deck is British by the way. A BSR (Birmingham Sound Reproducers) UA Deck - The Monarch I think. Good deck if the idler wheel is OK. Radio is pretty standard as well. EL84 and I think ECL82 in British Numbering. I look forward to this. As a matter of fact I am coming to live in the states (Ohio) in the next 18 months or so and will be wanting sets......
Its not just british, but standard european tube numbering, except USSR.
pretty sure i've seen circuit details of a uk radiogram using ecl82 and el84 for stereo outputs, probably done for cheapness just one extra valve to add an extra channel to a standard mono radio chassis
@@andygozzo72 Regentone I think. The second channel added to a mono unit to make it Stereo.
@@Steveuk405 possible....
I have a Semi portable HMV Record/AM Radio unit, and it has a very similar Turntable to this one, and I am sure I saw Monarch on it somewhere.
We had one of these when I was a kid but in a blonde cabinet. Despite the fancy oriental cabinet shown here, these were not high end sets. It had a problem with loud hum whenever white text was on the screen, something I eventually learned when I got much older was called "incidental carrier phase modulation". No one could fix the problem but we used it like that for a good 10 years.
In Roseberg Oregon, in about 2002, a rescue mission thrift store was about to throw out a larger longer Olympic phono stereo TV from about 1959 or 1960. It was same motif as this, black lacquer, sliding doors in Oriental theme. I saved it and kept it for about 14 years. I loved and miss that I no longer own it . It was far from working , but still nice. and relatively complete. Evidently the new owner after me took it apart and made a booze cabinet out of it. I surely wish I would have kept it in that case.
FIRE !! , like our Almeda fire in S. Or 2019. Just amazing how fast the devastation was 1000's out of a place to live. Many are still reeling from the total loss.
These different brands are kinda cool as well. Like the oriental drawings on the cabinet. The vacuum picture bulb (VPB) is a good sign that it will work. Looking forward to hopefully see this work. That trailer park might as well be living in an apartment with the little spacing between units. Not far from me is a residential area with full size houses really packed together as well. The houses basically look all the same.
Olympic was a radio and phonograph company. I don't know the history but I owned a few of units from the 1940s. They were made very well.
The turntable in this looks to be a German design. The same found in Telefunken and Grundig units.
Wow, can't say I've ever seen a TV decorated like that.
I tried looking through old Sears catalogs from 1958-1961 but they only show their own Silvertone lineup of sets.
I’m glad you were able to rescue the Olympic from being turned into a hipster bar,dog bed or fish tank. I like the design of the control panel bezels. I look forward to seeing it work again.
4:41 . . . Olympic was ahead of the game with the extended AM band on this tuner!
I like how instead of MC and KC on the right side of the dial scale, they have Hi Fi
“Kathleen Jason-Finnen”,
Olympic made televisions for far longer than 3 years. Their model RTU-3H “Duplicator” goes back as far as 1948 and I know they made tv’s at least until the 60’s. Supposedly production ceased in 1971.
Zenith and other brands also offered black lacquer “Chinese modern” TVs and hi-fi consoles. It was a fad for a while.
I am happy when you post a new video, no matter the topic!
thats a nice looking set
It looks pretty Tropical there! Awesome looking T.V.!
通った人はホームレス？ 😮素晴らしいアンティークテレビでした。❤❤❤❤
Thanks for the taster. This thing looks cool. It must have been a really nice unit back in the day.
Great video as always Dr Shangee
Love that cabinet on that console tv🧧
Olympic is like Packard Bell, they were more common in the East as PB was more common in the West. They were owned by Lear Siegler from 1958 until the early 70s. Quality wise, I would say they were comparable to Emerson. An average product. A lot of their TVs were series string hot chassis sets. Looking forward to the resurrection video!
There's a company in either Michigan or Minnesota which rebuilds (re-guns?) aviation/avionics-related CRT's. Let me do some digging through my "avionics department files" (three cardboard boxes, and keys for an old PA-23 Aztec), and I'll forward the info, if found...
Just before the advent of multiplex FM stereo, some AM FM tuners were made to where the FM played through one channel and the AM portion of the tuner played through the second channel. A stereo broadcast could then be simulcast over one FM radio channel and the other through an AM radio channel creating a stereo program. This lasted for only a year or so and never caught on.
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We keep it rockin'"
The Avionics CRT rebuilder turned out to be in New York, not MI or MN. Thomas Electronics is the name of the company, I'd sent a display from an MU2-J to them in 2009, it was a 6-inch Sharp green-screen CRT, with an 'arcing problem inside the gun'. I couldn't find the invoice from them, however, the invoice sent to the FBO for which I did the repairs, was just under $920.00 USD. The HV section of the display required certification of no coronal discharge "up to, and including 25,000--ft"; which means that I had to seal the new flyback at ALL connection points, especially the anode lead. I'm guessing that the re-gun cost somewhere between $700.00 and $750.00. The turn-around time was five days, including FedEx overnight service (same shipping zone).
Great video and great find I collect antiques and vintage items to !
Straight outta Compton. MC Shango in da hoood, ya kno wuttum sayin'
We've still got a few trailer parks like that in AZ, but they're fading fast as developers buy them up for generic apartment blocks. The land is leased to the trailers, and the trailers can't be moved (good luck moving or affording to move a 60 year old trailer), and the folks in them are usually older or just straight up poor... so they end up taking a total loss on their home and having to move a billion miles out into shithole exurbs and small towns. And of course, when they get there, they can only afford dumps worse than where they came from.
My grandmother had an Olympic TV/AM Radio/Phono set like this. That is a BSR record changer, I believe it is a model UA-12.
Just waiting for George Jetson to come around the corner..... I bet that when the TV was turned on at night the house lights would dim a bit. Thanks for posting.....
Hmm, I just saw on your Beltron tube restorer that it was made and sold a few blocks from me in Spokane Valley Washington. Cool.
I am sure you will figure this out very quick but when you decide to do the resurrection video on this Olympic TV the television chassis I am 95% sure has its own audio output stage looking at the video I see the output Transformer mounted on the top of the chassis and it looks like the speaker wire is running to the other side where the radio is the speeding you should just be able to hook up an independent speaker to get sound without going through the radio. Don't hold me to it but I am pretty sure that's how this unit is set up from my past experience. I look forward to seeing that television Play Because as I remember from decades ago they had very very nice picture quality and because that's CRT is in good shape and should throw a really beautiful picture
That uses a 6 CU 5
Olympic Radio & TV was NYC based. They were bought by Lear Siegler in the fifties. Lots of lower cost flashy eye candy.
Thanks for the Tour.
Record changer = Birmingham Sound Reproducers (BSR).
Olympic sets were more common here on the east coast in the NY/NJ area. Our neighbors had a similar set, I believe it was the same chassis with a more conventional cabinet. I worked on it a few times ages ago and I remember the radio/record changer layout and the 6x9 speakers being just like that.
Holy crap eye opener. Straight out of Compton, lmao 90s rap flashback. Nice looking set though.
its a neat looking cabinet defiantly worth saving
Cant wait for the revival. Especially with the replacement tube. :-)
You should restore it, it’s an awesome console
even though its scratched an gowegded out its a real beautiful design in my opinion
Olympic was the trademark of Hamilton Radio Corp. established 1941 in NYC..
Considering what they want for them on eBay it is an expensive set. Same basic set was made in different cabinet styles and I bet this one was is the rarest. 1960 looks like the end of the line for that brand. Can't wait to see what you can do with it.
"No light at the end of the tunnel" for dud CRTs. Thank you 😄
Before you turned down the street by the 98 cent store, you was on a street called S. Lime Ave. I should we say Slime Ave.
You would be nuts to not restore this and just resurrect it. While none of this old stuff could ever be made today, this unit is doubly so. The ree-ing around cultural appropriate would be glorious.
This is very stylish and rare. You really need to restore it.
that's a real cool set.
In the early times of stereo sets there were many of these "oh no, a complete second channel... must we?" solutions 😉
Nice journey to the hood. I vote on a restore to the old Olympic.
Don't know about TV sets , but the stereo consoles with that oriental look cabinets are bring big $$$$$$... mainly because they were rare to begin with...
That deck is a bsr ua 12 monarch
straight outta Compton
It’s a good thing your windshield was already cracked for the trip to Compton.
Interesting set! I’ve seen an Olympic TV console with a Bogen stereo receiver in it. The tuner/amp chassis in your set may have been made by Bogen.
Like They said on back to the future “you’re my density”
Interesting find! So Telefunken wasn't the only one that used different tubes in their "stereo" channels. My Allegro uses an EL84 for one channel and an ECL86 for the other. Early 60's set, FM but no multiplex. Love your videos.
All you have to do is, wash the inside and outside of the windshield once in a while. Then we could see....
Looking forward to the resurrections inside this cabinet.
If this is a 1960 model, I would assume only the Phono section is stereo. I believe the true built-in FM stereo receivers didn’t come out until ‘62.
The FCC approved the Zenith GE system of multiplex stereo in April of 1961, with the first broadcasts on June 1st. By then most FM tuners had a multiplex jack on the rear chassis apron. These picked off the signal right from the detector, before deemphasis.
My father bought a Motorola console hi-fi in 1961 and later when I was in electronics school in the 70s I worked on that unit and found that there was a small 2 tube chassis about the size of a half pint milk carton that was plugged into the main chassis that turned out to be the stereo mux unit. Dad told me that when he ordered the console they hadn't yet decided on the standard for stereo FM and that when they did the dealer would come to the house and install the multiplexer that would be built to the decided upon standard which is what they did.
That is a nice set I miss when TVs had style even in the 80s they still had style but not anymore. Like you say about Philco all style no substance new TVs are no style no substance
Just scored this same unit yesterday, but no tv! I was elated to find your video and see what it originally looked like. Would love to see the rebuild if you were sucessful, and if there are options to restore mine to its former glory! Interesting to add the artist on mine is Delores Dimas. All one of a kind art on these. Believe they were made by Union furniture in NY.
This is a great example of Chinese Modern! Ultra cool right down to the terrific speaker grill cloth. Once you resarect it, send it to B Anderson! It'll be a masterpiece once restored!
Retro Design wise, you can't get better than this! He'll send the record player to Radiophononut for mechanical restoration. Just do it!!!
If there are 2 separate tuners (One for FM and one for AM) that you could play through the speaker independently, that was early stereo. One station on FM playing the one channel, and the AM playing the other channel. Heard the Lawrence Welk tv show was simulcasted that way.
Dual stereo is from 58 to 60 and what that means is what channel is the FM in one channel is the a.m. and that’s how they were doing stereo for those two years and they discontinued it shortly there after
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Please, please, please...try to make a longer resurrection soon. I know some people don't like them, but I absolutely love them. I mean, I have to wait a week in between your videos most times.....
Yes as soon as I can get caught up on my obligations I have a lot of stuff around here that will require intense resurrections. Probably won't be until February
I'm spoiled out here in the country! That place looks like a sardine can!
you think thats mobile park is tight you should see some of the ones in Florida
somewhere there's a beatnik/hippy who'd love ..Love .. LOVE! to own that console