Watching TV on the beach, a lost art

Pretty much since the television set was able to leave the corner of the living room, companies were designing and marketing TVs to be portable. Some added a handle and a battery pack to be brought outdoors. Countless advertisements displayed consumers carrying them on a hike in the woods, in a fishing boat, on a train, and especially, my personal favorite, the beach. In 1958, when Philco introduced the world to the Safari, the self-proclaimed "world's first portable TV," one commercial sc