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My uncle still had his family home in Uptown New Orleans (on Jefferson & Laurel) - the carriage house was never rented as part of the deal and it was pretty much as his grandfather left it when he died in 1968. In the 1920's into the 1930's they used it as a radio shop. The back room (which had a floor) still had bunches of old parts in there. There were two large desks with drawers full of old capacitors, resistors etc. from well before WWII. I was actually using the carriage house for storage. When he put the house up for sale I salvaged some old meters, knobs, and some radio industry magazines & catalogs from 1946-47 I found in the attic. I wasn't into repairing radios then and had no place to store the rest of the stuff at the time. The house was renovated this year and the carriage house (which needed a lot of work) was gutted and turned into a carport.
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