Television! What a fascinating gadget those things have become. Good for hours and hours of endless entertainment OR hours and hours of endless banal stupidity and boredom - your pick. I hardly watch TV any more and when it is on, it's usually just for the background noise. But a lot of us remember a time those things were so valuable, you actually called in specialists to have them repaired, although that wasn't always a good thing. Our house almost burned down after the TV repair guy from down the block put the wrong transformer in our downstairs tenants' TV and it caught fire! Yeah, had the fire engines from the next street pay our house a visit that evening!!
More TV memories: my very first TV that I bought with my own money was in about 1975-76. It was a Zenith 19" color portable (remember when we classified televisions as 'portable' when they weren't in one of those fancy wooden cabinets - those were called 'console' TV's). But I digress. That 19" unit cost $600 back then (that's $3,367 in today's money adjusted for inflation) and it didn't even have a remote control - you had to get up off your keester to change channels and adjust volume. AND I considered it a good price at the time!! Holy Crap Batman! AND, if that's not enough, we only had 5 channels in Milwaukee: ABC, CBS, NBC, a UHF channel, and the public broadcasting station (precursor to today's PBS) On a really good day we could get one of the Chicago stations and I could watch old Buster Crabbe Flash Gordon serials LOL.
Today a 40" TV costs a few hundred dollars and when it breaks, you toss it...
...my how times have changed.
Okay, let's get back on topic. Today's Dimestore Dreams offering is a sedan delivery type vehicle converted for use as a TV repair truck. Let's hope this repairman is more competent than the one we had in our neighborhood back in the day. Enjoy! Opa Fritz
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