In a message dated 5/13/2009 1:35:56 P.M. Eastern Daylight Time, [log in to unmask] writes: When my parents went shopping for our first TV in the early Fifties, no one was looking at the picture or listening to the sound; it was all about furniture. ---------------- In 1900 (when a dollar was a dollar), Columbia offered the Multiplex Graphophone Grand, with triple stereo wax cylinders, each 14" long, for only $1000. F.O.B. Bridgeport, Conn. Not many were sold. Allen _www.phonobooks.com_ (http://www.phonobooks.com)