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Originally Posted by tomwed
In the 60's when the tv, radio or amplifier was on the fritz my Dad would remove all the tubes, put them in a shoe box and send me to the drugstore. The drugstore had a tube tester. Each tube had a number printed on it and I would look up the number on the chart. The chart told you where to set a bunch of levers and then you pulled down the "Good or Bad" lever.
The druggest would sell me replacement tubes and Dad did the rest when I returned.
That came to mind today because I read that Radio Shack's days may also be numbered.
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My father fixed all of the radios & then televisions for his entire family in N.Y.C. simply by testing & replacing the tubes. Plus ours, of course.
My husband's father built his own television set......was the first in their neighborhood to have a t.v.
I believe I was four years old or thereabouts when we got a television set.
Circa 1949? 1950? I recall the testing of those tubes for a very long time thereafter...............
Like "Ralphie" in A Christmas Story, we both remember looking into the store windows, gazing at all the new gifts, toys, televisions for sale.......in the early 1950's.
This came to mind after reading the thread about the radio tubes, etc. which was a blast from the past. (Thanks for sharing that memory)
http://socialdance.stanford.edu/syllabi/teen_dances.htm
Keep scrolling downward after clicking above hyperlink...........for the dance steps...
TEEN DANCES of the 1950'S..........
Who recalls rushing home from school to watch AMERCAN BANDSTAND?
We were not yet teens..........but nevertheless...........great show.