Anyone Know Who Made This Pedestal? I Bet GE…
Anyone Know Who Made This Pedestal?
2021 UPDATE: It is a GE pedestal.
You don’t see many of these but there were a few around. This is built along the same lines as the old Dumont “milk wagon” pedestals used under their Iconoscope cameras. I’m pretty sure this is an electric ped with a small motor for raising and lowering the camera, but there are no manufacturing markings on any of the photos I have.
I suspect this may have been made by or for GE. The camera is an RCA TK30 and is band new. The photo is from WGN in Chicago and was taken during their first week of operations. The temporary number on the camera looks like that old cloth like medical tape used to hold bandages on. Remember that? Let us know if you know more! Enjoy and share! – Bobby Ellerbee
Wow look at that pedestal would ya. I have never seen one like that before.
Could be wrong, but I thought some of the photos of
Perhaps built in house by WGN?
Looks like Angel Casey.