What does collecting old tv's mean to young people?

[Username1]

"Acidic Jews" - Ha ! I like that..... The real real good electronics crap was on Canal st.
You ever get a time machine, you remember to set it for Canal St. 1969....

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[Sandy G]

Originally Posted by Username1

"Acidic Jews" - Ha ! I like that..... The real real good electronics crap was on Canal st.
You ever get a time machine, you remember to set it for Canal St. 1969....

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Hehehehe... When school took up again, I went to the library, & told the librarian about seein' those "Acidic Jews"... NOBODY could figger out what I meant, until the Principal-Who sat in the pew in front of us in the Presbyterian Church-quizzed Mama & Daddy about it, & THEN he realized what I meant... NOT "Acidic", but "HASIDIC"... I've had a few Joosh friends thru the years, & they always get a Kick from that story... TOTALLY innocent, but my Mountain Brogue betrayed me..WHAT was the street that had the REALLY "Good" electronic junque shoppes on it, it was COMPLETELY obliterated by the WTC complex ? It was a REAL "Radio Row", & about any kind of tube, widget, hooberbloob you could name was likely there, in abundance ? There was a Rat's warren of streets there, that they completely did away with...

[N2IXK]

Originally Posted by Sandy G

WHAT was the street that had the REALLY "Good" electronic junque shoppes on it, it was COMPLETELY obliterated by the WTC complex ? It was a REAL "Radio Row", & about any kind of tube, widget, hooberbloob you could name was likely there, in abundance ? There was a Rat's warren of streets there, that they completely did away with...

You must be thinking of Canal Street and/or Cortland Street.

"Radio Row" went away to build the WTC. All that remains are a couple shops selling cell phone accessories and car stereo crap...

[Steve D.]

Originally Posted by N2IXK

You must be thinking of Canal Street and/or Cortland Street.

"Radio Row" went away to build the WTC. All that remains are a couple shops selling cell phone accessories and car stereo crap...

Cortland Street was "Radio Row." Here's a site devoted to the death of Radio Row:
http://www.qcwa.org/radio-row.htm. You can also Goggle "Radio Row" for more sites.

-Steve D.