Prewar Radio TV Store - Videokarma.org TV - Video

rld-tv01 · #1 07-28-2022, 03:22 PM

I purchased this photo of a radio TV store on eBay. I later found a newspaper article regarding the grand opening of the store in 1939 in San Bernardino CA. An RCA TT5 television attachment sign is displayed in the window on the right. I added an edited photo taken at a previous ETF convention of a similar 1939 RCA sign

TV-collector · #2 07-28-2022, 11:54 PM

Many thanks for sharing these pictures!

But as a customer way back I shouldn`t trust and buy from a "Liar", sorry "Lier"!

Regards,
TV-collector

kf4rca · #3 07-29-2022, 06:56 AM

E Street was once a very famous part of San Bernadino. Part of it was Route 66!
Read on:
https://iecn.com/e-revisited-trip-me...inos-e-street/

Dude111 · #4 07-29-2022, 10:09 AM

Thanx for the pix my friend!!!!

Kevin Kuehn · #5 07-31-2022, 03:56 PM

Thanks for sharing, this is so neat to see. I'm always surprised to find a small dealer that had access to two major competing brands. Does anyone know how common place that was back at that time?

old_coot88 · #6 07-31-2022, 10:35 PM

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Originally Posted by Kevin Kuehn

Thanks for sharing, this is so neat to see. I'm always surprised to find a small dealer that had access to two major competing brands. Does anyone know how common place that was back at that time?

We had RCA and Dumont/Emerson. Actually there were 4 more TV dealerships in our little podunk town of Globe, AZ. The other dealers were Globe Electric (GE and Magnavox), Bill Taylor TV (Sylvania)"we sell the best and service the rest", Burnett Electric (Zenith and Philco), Cody James Electronics (Setchell Carlson and a few others).

Our old shop building is still there unchanged on Google Street View, but it's a Salvation Army thrift store now. Anybody else got Street Views of their old job sites from back in the day?