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A lot of strange stuff in that picture.... For one thing it looks like none of the tv's have a picture on them.... The use of rabbit ears is normal... Our shop had good tv reception, as did the town, and we fielded lots of reception problems, and a lot, a lot of calls where people complained about the picture with cable. I even replaced 2 sets from Panasinic because the customer complained the picture had snow on cable, snow remained after replacement. We often had to show customers how their repaired set looked on a rabbit ears because they did not have cable, or roof antenna, and they were often suspiceous if the set looked "too good" when we were done with it at the shop. Other shops in the area did the same.....

It does have a school look, but the shop design was by the owners thoughts as to what was the best layout. One guy I knew and a lot of area shops just had one bench and other sets scattered all over the place. The shop I started in had a two sided 60 foot long bench and tech benches on both sides, a test tube for working on console chassies. If they brought the floor model in, it just sat on the floor next to the bench, test equipment sat on the bench, and reached the set on the floor. We also used florescent lights, even though they were noisy.... That thing in the air next to the pole was most likely a set standard, a known good tv, we had one too and if a customer had specific reception problems we could no reproduce, we showed them their set next to the control set, in some cases with one set of rabbit ears per set, right next to one another.... as close as possible...

That table to the left sure looks like a school quality table....

I can't say anything about those monster test things back in the back, I didn't have them in my school, and nothing in shops I have been in...

The first guy I worked for was pretty good to go to all that trouble to set stuff up to show customers how some of the reception issues were not their sets faults....

There was a lot of stuff he did and did not charge for, not something you see today..... He was the areas biggest shop, and certainly not the place I thought I would have had my first job out of school....