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Motorola 19CK1
Click on picture for high resolution image This was Motorola's second color set, introduced in late 1954. It used a 19 inch picture tube, but this set, like most of the 19 inch sets, was modified with a 21 inch tube by Motorola or by the dealer. This may be the only surviving example of this set. Click for an ad, sales materials, 1956 brochure or technical information, This set was donated by Gene Hamilton of Stillwater, Oklahoma. His parents were Motorola retailers from the mid 1940s until they retired in the 1980s. In addition to Motorola consumer products they were the Motorola Communications service agent for this region and provided the first "two-way" mobile radio for most of the public services within 60 miles of their home in Stillwater. His father Vernon Hamilton was the original "steely-eyed radio man" in this area. This was the first color television set to come to Stillwater. It was never sold, and has the original dealer sticker on the front.
From left to right, an unidentified young employee. In the background behind truck wearing a suit is Gene's paternal grandfather Verne Hamilton. The tall guy is an electronics technician named Dale Bird. Far right in the hat is my father Vernon D. Hamilton Jr.
Photograph shot inside Hamilton's Appliance, as the store was
originally known. Left to right, standing, are Gene's father, Gene's
mother Anice F. Hamilton, Dale Bird, Gene's paternal
grandmother Sylvia B. Hamilton with her husband Verne Hamilton..
Crouching is the unidentified young employee again.
Gene's father rather uncharacteristically seated at a typewriter
From Gene Hamilton:
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