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Location: Born and raised in NJ (with a number of very happy years spent in Montreal during and after college) and a pleasant four year stint in eastern PA that ended two years ago.
How it started: Around 1980, a friend moved into an old house in Staten Island. He said to me "Hey, you collect radios. There's a old TV in the attic. Want it?" (It was an RCA T-100 although I didn't know it at the time.) And that's when the insanity began!
Despite the jokes about NJ, I always saw it firsthand as the Garden State when I was growing up rather than what you see as you're passing through on the Turnpike. But I realized our real claim to fame when corresponding with a collector in Hawaii a few years ago. He said "we have to import everthing, while you lucky guys in New Jersey just trip over this stuff everywhere you go." And I had to admit, he was right.
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