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I'm wondering if it might not be U shaped with a connecting strip running along the back?
It's hard to see, but there looks to be an end to the white edge on the top past the opening, which could be where the connector lifts off???
Where's this from? It there another angle?
It's hard to see, but there looks to be an end to the white edge on the top past the opening, which could be where the connector lifts off???
Where's this from? It there another angle?
B&o ?
Rick Vestal
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She's clearly opening the right side with her Jedi mind powers...
chicks
Lunatic Member
Not sure there is a left channel. Looks like light reflection down there... Mono?
cubby01
aka Buck
Had to use my own Jedi mind powers to dig a little deeper.
The photo was taken by Julius Shulman and is is of the Stahl Residence located at 1635 Woods Dr. in Los Angeles designed by architect Pierre Koenig. It was taken in 1959 so could well indeed be mono. Sadly I didn't turn up much about the actual console unit.
Here are some additioal photos of the house if interested. ..
http://www.apartmenttherapy.com/revisiting-las-architecural-pa-71683
As a really off topic tangent. That particular iconic photo is also one which has been restaged/shot with Angelina Jolie and Brad Pitt.
Although without the emphasis on the stereo... er.. console.
The photo was taken by Julius Shulman and is is of the Stahl Residence located at 1635 Woods Dr. in Los Angeles designed by architect Pierre Koenig. It was taken in 1959 so could well indeed be mono. Sadly I didn't turn up much about the actual console unit.
Here are some additioal photos of the house if interested. ..
http://www.apartmenttherapy.com/revisiting-las-architecural-pa-71683
As a really off topic tangent. That particular iconic photo is also one which has been restaged/shot with Angelina Jolie and Brad Pitt.
Although without the emphasis on the stereo... er.. console.
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chicks
Lunatic Member
Great use of the force! All kinds of things show up now, though no details on the console.
http://www.austinchronicle.com/arts/2009-03-13/754254/
http://www.austinchronicle.com/arts/2009-03-13/754254/
chicks
Lunatic Member
Green-screen shots for the Birth of the Cool exhibit in Oakland. Looks like there was a lert-hand speaker.
http://pulp.orangephotography.com/blog/archives/photography/
http://pulp.orangephotography.com/blog/archives/photography/
chicks
Lunatic Member
L.A. Times article on Koenig in 2002. An audiophile, or at least a pretty serious record collector - 6,000 records. I'll bet whatever was in that console was TOTL.
http://articles.latimes.com/2002/jun/19/news/lv-koenig19
Console custom designed by Gerald McCabe.
http://mid2mod.blogspot.com/2011/09/gerald-mccabe.html
1960
2006
http://articles.latimes.com/2002/jun/19/news/lv-koenig19
Console custom designed by Gerald McCabe.
http://mid2mod.blogspot.com/2011/09/gerald-mccabe.html
1960
2006
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cubby01
aka Buck
:ntwrthy: Excellent detective work Chicks.
Re the green screen shot, I wondered if for Birth of the Blues thing they photoshopped Koenig out of the picture and filled in the left side of the console to match the right. Based on the 1960 photo above I think that's what they did. Or there's a sliding panel.
The 2006 unit looks quite different, probably not sound equipment at all.
From somewhere on wikipedia:
Re the green screen shot, I wondered if for Birth of the Blues thing they photoshopped Koenig out of the picture and filled in the left side of the console to match the right. Based on the 1960 photo above I think that's what they did. Or there's a sliding panel.
The 2006 unit looks quite different, probably not sound equipment at all.
From somewhere on wikipedia:
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chicks
Lunatic Member
:ntwrthy: Excellent detective work Chicks.
Re the green screen shot, I wondered if for Birth of the Blues thing they photoshopped Koenig out of the picture and filled in the left side of the console to match the right. Based on the 1960 photo above I think that's what they did. Or there's a sliding panel.
The 2006 unit looks quite different, probably not sound equipment at all.
From somewhere on wikipedia:
Yeah, looks like it was a mono unit, after all.
Expand the 2006 unit as big as you can get it, and you should see what appears to be the outline of two woofers on each side, and rectangular cutouts - horns? - above them. I much prefer the look of the original.
If the photo was taken in 1959 I am pretty sure that it is not Bang&Olufsen, although the veneer reminds me of B&O gear from that time. (I have for example an "Amplifier 608" from 1960 with brazilian rosewood enclosure.) I am quite familiar with any fifties and sixties gear of that Danish brand.
The biggest B&O speakers of that time were the S 607 stereo which I also have and they look very different.
Cadillac Kid
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Interesting, the console designer also started the legendary McCabes Guitar Shop in Santa Monica.
