[Doug Houston]

OK, then,that's the other one that I saw. I'd forgotten that we were both there and saw it. Fred Rice bought it. His family had owned one, and he'd never seen one until that one surfaced. So, as they would say (about everything) in eBay, it's rare. So, the one I have now (for $30) is the second one I've seen. Danged glad I bought it.

I recall seeing an occasional chairside with the 37 or 38 dial, and simply guessed that it was a smaller chassis than the 650. Zenith didn't display the engineering schmartz that Philco did. Their 15 tube chairside is sort of a holy grail, but I'm not that thirsty.

Maybe you remember that there was also a 1936 model phono combination there also, and possibly with the same vendor. It wasn't exactly sharp, but the vendor busted it into toothpicks, and either took the rest of it home, or sold it naked. I had toyed with the idea of buying it, but it was trashed before I could act.

I have the chassis from a central sound system that was made by Philco. There is a radio chassis that was derived from, I believe, a model 91. It has a separate power amplifier that used a pair of 50's for power amps. There is a motor board by RCA, and a selector panel for a lot of speakers, with a speaker on the panel, probably or a monitor. It's the only place I've ever known Philco to use 50's. I sure wish that I'd gotten the cabinet with it. It was probably pretty big.