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Originally Posted by kx250rider
I might add one more detail, and that is, most color TV owners in the 1950s & early 60s, would call out a factory service tech; not the neighborhood TV repairman. That's because most neighborhood techs claimed they'd work on color sets, but in fact many times, they'd get themselves in trouble. RCA had a service fleet in most all cities, and also many, MANY RCA sets were kept under annual service contracts, and only RCA techs would be allowed to work on the sets under that policy.
This isn't exactly important in the case of your writing, I guess, but I thought it's worth mentioning.
Charles
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That's all correct. Our store was the authorized RCA (as well as DuMont/Emerson) sales and service dealership in our little hick town (Globe, AZ). But being far removed from major cities, we were late getting into color, and didn't get into it until 1964 with the CTC-15. We went to the factory-sponsored RCA School in Phoenix to learn the mysteries of color.
The truck was a '61 Ford Econoline van. A couple of us goofballs used to think it was a hoot to be going down a hill and shut the ignition off for a few seconds and back on, which caused a
huge BANG!!! out the exhaust, till one day we blew the muffler off.
(Dunno why the blue formatting occured. Twarn't me.)