Met up with freakaftr8 (Shawn)

[kbmuri]

Yeah, they're making me feel old too. My beater Ford pickup is a "Historical Vehicle" now. I remember my parents '64 Zenith roundie being purchased, new.

Ok, I'm 46 and change. My dad was a TV repairman in the '60s. He taught me how to test tubes on his Sencore TC-131 when I was 7 or 8, and that was "my job" when he took me on a servce call or took a set home. My first TV was a red and white Magnavox portable I got at an auction for one dollar, broken. Fixed it the same day and put it in my room. Back then it was rare for a kid to have his own TV. Later I had a job one summer (1974?) repairing b/w motel sets for a local owner of 5 or 6 seedy establishments, 35 bucks a set fixed price, delivered broken, returned fixed. I also took care of the neighbors. Forgot about TVs when I got into cars and girls in high school in the late 70's (although I did salvage a curbside tube stereo and set it up in the garage so I could work on cars in proper tunes). "Life" gobbled me up for 25 years. Then got back into radios again when eBay became mainstream, 7-ish years ago, say 2001. Got back into TVs about 5 years ago after rescuing a Capehart 333 from a fishtanker (the other eBay bid was by a college frat house in Chicago). Got absorbed with it after discovering AK. Now the darn things are all over the house.

The red and white magnavox portable would be a nice find. Or maybe it was a zenith. It was a long time ago...