We had an entertainment counsel from Curtis Mathes. Very nice. Beautiful wood, and great sound.
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Posted on 12/16/2016 6:58:35 PM PST by central_va
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Bought a Quasar TV in the early eighties that was made in the USA, Tennessee I think. I was told at the time that that was the last TV assembly plant in the US. Not sure if that was correct, but it’s been a long time since any consumer electronics were produced in volume in the US.
So how much labor per TV do you think it takes to make one? I guess 1 man-hour. Even if mad in the USA that would add only $30.00 per set. On a $500.00 TV that isn’t unreasonable. At least to me. Call it keep America from becoming the third world tax.
Zenith was the last American based tv manufacturer. I think they died n the early 90s.
Over the ten year life of our RCA console TV from the early 1950s to the early 1960s, my parents probably shelled out for tubes and service calls the same amount of money they paid originally for the TV, around $400. That would be about $2000 today. Yeah, the good old days ...
What’s scary is that if we went into another world war, we are toast because we make NOTHING here anymore. We would not be able to build weapons on a mass scale. China could convert its factories in a heartbeat.
Sylvania, Philco, Quasar, Motorola
About 1974 I bought my first color TV — 19” RCA portable. It cost $500.
In 2008 I bought my first widescreen LCD — 32” VIZIO. It cost $750.
I have been checking prices on 50” 1080p and 4k TVs. They cost between $400 and $600 for several VIZIO models. Other brands are in the $300 range and the upper end TVs are in the $800 range.
“The fact that the USA doesn’t manufacture anymore ...”
You keep writing garbage like this, in the face of repeated refutations. The inflation-adjusted value of our domestically manufactured goods is about as high as it has ever been. We just use much (40%) less labor to do so.
Curtis Mathes
Yeah. What happened to all of those steel mills? Bethlehem Steel is gone. I think US steel is still around, but not like they were.
Admiral’s been gone for a long time. My dad retired from there. There were quality problems with Admiral appliances, but we could fix that.
I grew up calling them phonographs. In 1981, when I was shopping for a new one, the girl, in her twenties, who was helping me had never heard the term and didn't know what I was talking about.
We had an entertainment counsel from Curtis Mathes. Very nice. Beautiful wood, and great sound.
Yeah, our area used to have a Zenith plant - some of the best blue collar jobs around.
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And a great product. Zenith was the only brand of TV purchased by my parents, grandparents, aunts and uncles, etc.
I still have an old RCA turntable.
We had a ‘52 Majestic that served us well. We got rid of it when we moved in 1963.
This crap has to end. So you are saying offshoring has caused NO job loss in the USA? The production of 70,000 factories closed didn’t go overseas? How much MORE production would the USA have I those factories had not been outsourced? Hmmm? Hey Einstein answer the question.
I think the last mass-market TV assembly plant in the US was a Sony factory in Arizona.
And Toyota Camrys are assembled in Kentucky. In fact, the three best-selling autos with majority domestic content are Japanese brands (two Toyotas and one Honda).
There are no lead smelters in the US anymore. The last one closed a few years ago.
We had an entertainment counsel from Curtis Mathes. Very nice. Beautiful wood, and great sound.
Watched the 1st moon landing on this type:
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