Seventy years ago, television was spreading around the nation, but not all areas could yet receive a signal. But that didn’t stop Crosley dealers from taking orders and making sure the town was ready for TV the day the first station signed on.

They could accomplish this with the Crosley Mobile Television Demonstration Unit, which would roll into town weeks before the first station came on, complete with a television studio on wheels, two cameras, monitor boards, and 800 feet of coaxial cable. It was as exciting as a circus, and would give the people their first taste of live TV.

The photo appeared in a Crosley ad in the December 1952 issue of Television Retailing.