Early Entertainment Center

[Jim G.]

[Duncanpup]

1. I'm heading to Amazon to look for this

[Goonch]

2. ;-{)

[bucolic_frolic]

3. Mid-Century Colonial meets Space Age

Love the squiggly rug and Shaker style kids chair.

[multigraincracker]

4. My parents had a 1960 Curtis-Mathes console just like this very one.

https://www.curtis-mathes.com/apps/photos/photo?photoid=111255317

In 1968 they pulled out the black and white tv and found a 19 inch color portable that fit in the space. They had it forever as it went with the rest of their Heywood Wakefield furniture. They sold it all in 1998 when they moved to Assisted Living.

[bucolic_frolic]

5. Heywood Wakefield

Holy Cow! Some of that New England colonial fetch good prices. Hartshorn was another manufacturer. Usually furniture was made in the minor industrial cities of Massachusetts, New Hampshire. The companies would form and combine and dissolve across generations. Not sure if any of them went into shoes, which was also a big industry of the region.

[multigraincracker]

6. Their Heywood Wakefield Mid-Century didn't fetch as much

because it was in walnut and not birch finish.

[csziggy]

8. My parents had one similar - on the right side was a lift panel with a record player

Lousy sound for both the TV and the audio equipment.

[Midnight Writer]

7. Ah, the Age of the Console. The centerpiece of every middle class house.