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In Reply to: RE: Repair Shops/stores of day's gone by? posted by Brian McGowan on February 11, 2015 at 09:00:09
I lived in Delaware for a while. Milford's changed a lot!My Uncle Jimmy used to own a very successful TV and stereo repair shop from the late 50's to late 70's. I remember seeing some VERY high end stuff sitting on those selves.
It is a time gone buy. I remember they would install TV antennas, home TV repair with his big tube box and he was always loaded with cash in hand. And had a biker slash hit man that worked with him. He apparently was Mob connected.
Forgot to add. We lived on Long Island in the Five towns. You know, the town they got the Goodfellas story from . Yep, that was me uncle Jimmy!
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Yeah I was just old enough to get in on the tail end of that era,back in the late 60's on through the 70's early 80's!I find it interesting when I am @ a local estate sale etc. and see a sticker like that on the back of something!Thanks for sharing your story!
I opened a TV/VCR/Camcorder service shop while I was student teaching.I used to fix TVS all the time in college and in the late 70s and early 80s there were tons of tube sets still but I didn't see any in the late 80s and early 90s.I still kept all my tube caddys from the late 70s even tho there are very few audio tubes..I had lots of Zenith and RCA modules tho.
"If it measures good and sounds bad, it is bad; if it measures bad and sounds good, you have measured the wrong thing."
- Daniel R. von Recklinghausen
Thanks for the story!Did you use stickers like that as well? To me it would be kind of fun to start a book collecting stickers or Business cards from that era.
Speaking of stickers, does anyone have a McIntosh amp with a Mac clinic sticker on it?
Nah
I had two techs working for me on flat rate we just used used repair tags.
I was procuring another degree in automotive electronics and emissions because I knew I was going to teaching in the automotive field and that's all we have in Michigan.I was a single dad raising a daughter so this paid the bills nicely.
"If it measures good and sounds bad, it is bad; if it measures bad and sounds good, you have measured the wrong thing."
- Daniel R. von Recklinghausen
"Call Mikey Samra for Expert Service"
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"If it measures good and sounds bad, it is bad; if it measures bad and sounds good, you have measured the wrong thing."
- Daniel R. von Recklinghausen
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