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03-08-2012, 09:29 AM
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My dad worked for Sears servicing TV's and electronics from sometime in the mid 1950's to sometime in the mid 1960's in Birmingham AL and the last year in Pascagoula MS. He even drove the crappy old Econoline van!
His customer stories were priceless! He opened several roach / mouse infested sets! One lady called the store demanding a new picture tube under warranty, turns out her kid was watchind a western and blasted the bad guy with dads shotgun! He also told me a story of a nice old lady in Hueytown and he asked her one time "whats with all the junk cars in your yard"? It was Bobby and Donnie Allisons mother! Before he worked at Sears he worked for the DuMont dealer in Birmingham, once he told me they installed "the biggest g-d set he ever saw" in a swanky nightclub. It was a Royal Soverign! I would love to find that set today, but I'm sure its long gone. 
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03-08-2012, 12:36 PM
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I bought a used 1965 Ford Econoline van in 1969. It had only 38K on it. It had to be one of the poorest handling vehicles on the road. That thing was all over the road. I always considered it to be a death trap.
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03-08-2012, 02:28 PM
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03-12-2012, 04:52 PM
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burned my wrist back about 1970 on an ammeter under a dash never stuck my hands
in anything electrical again with a watch on since !
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03-12-2012, 08:10 PM
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no wonder most electricians do not wear their wedding bands
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03-12-2012, 10:03 PM
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An important tip about a wristwatch, glad it was mentioned! I knew about wedding bands (tales in an automotive trade magazine about a band glowing red hot were enough to scare me!) but hadn't thought about the watch. I do find myself fishing around under the dash of old cars from time to time. The leather band would help, of course, but I think next time I'll take the Timex off.
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03-16-2012, 02:38 PM
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Does anyone here remember Friendly Frost? Or Newmark and Lewis?
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03-16-2012, 02:50 PM
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03-16-2012, 03:34 PM
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My parents would go food shopping on Friday night, and when they wanted to leave, they knew they could find me at the appliance store in the plaza watching Flintstones, or some other show on all the color sets lined up like good soldiers. RCA, Zenith, Admiral, GE, Westinghouse, Philco. It seemed that the store sold many, many different brands. NTSC always meant, as it still does, "never twice the same color"
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03-19-2012, 09:58 AM
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03-16-2012, 05:07 PM
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Does anyone have any pictures of the large consoles of the 60's in their store displays?
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03-16-2012, 10:35 PM
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I remember a couple very nice pics like that being on here before; they may be buried deep in some old threads. Was it Veg-O-Matic that posted a store in a shopping mall circa late 60s? There is another one with a room that had consoles lined up on big shelves.
I thought I'd post a few pictures I took from the last TV shop I helped clean out. This was near the end; the building (and most of the contents) are gone now; that color tv test jig is still sitting here at my place awaiting a new home, among other things!
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Bryan Last edited by bgadow; 03-16-2012 at 10:43 PM.
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