Seventy-five years ago, this was one of the lowest prices on a console (or, to be fair, a “consolette”) teleivision. The Air King model A-2012 featured a 12-1/2 inch screen, and more importantly, a retail price of only $239.95 (or ten dollars more if you wanted mahogany).

You would undoubtedly be the first on your block to have a television, but even this budget model was expensive, since the price tag translates to over $3000 in today’s money.

But things were booming, and you could always cash in a war bond or two. This ad appeared in the November 1949 issue of Radio Retailing.