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Originally Posted by Bill Cahill
Was that the company owned by two young men from a family that moved to the U. S. a decade earlier? True story. Not fake.
I saw the move about them some years ago.
They had an appliance store, and, decided to sell tv's.
There was a console Bendix in the showroom window, exactly the same model as mine.
It had just as lousy a picture as mine.
The place burned down shortly after starting to sell tv's.
They had no insurance, and, went out of business.
Bill Cahill
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Bill! If you're refering to the Milwaukee, Schuster's store, that wasn't the one refered to in the movie. Schusters was sold to Gimbel Bros in 1960. They were part of the Affiliated Retailers chain and their private label products were Arlington and Artone. Most Arlingtons were Wells-Gardner, where Artone was the lower end line. The Artones were Olympic and Tele-King Built.
It was noted in one of the mid-thirties Radio Retailing mags, that Schuster's had the largest radio department in the entire mid west.
Regarding the movie, it was enjoyable enough, but the products that were pictured, didn't agree with time line of the story. Some were too new or too old.