Same thing here... Nick Stewart's "KERN TV SERVICE" on Westwood Blvd in Los Angeles. I used to go in there and be underfoot when I was about 10 in the (Uh-oh, age given out) late 70s.
Nick NEVER threw anything out, and he had 100s of TVs heaped to the ceiling. Most were 50s B&W consoles, but there were plenty of early color sets and other neat gems. I specifically remember two 22" Westinghouse color sets from '55. I didn't know what they meant at the time. I also later found out that the sets in the Westwood store were only the tip of the iceberg.... There were garages and sheds elsewhere!!!!!
In about 1982, Nick simply evaporated off the face of the earth it seemed. No warning. Not even to Hurley Electronics; the main wholesaler of TV parts back then. (He had a bill due with them according to an angry field sales rep)... I approached a mutual friend; my barber who owned the barber shop next door to Kern TV. All I got was that Nick had gone back to Texas, and the TVs are dumped from the store. But the garages elsewhere were never to be found. I lost a lot of sleep over that whole thing... Watching the paper for any clues of a sale of abandoned storage of TVs. 20 years now, still wondering but reasonably backed off from hope
Anyone in Texas know a Nixon Stewart, about 100 years old by now, LOL???
Charles