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Once, every neighborhood had a TV and radio repair shop
By adamg on Mon, 05/05/2014 - 11:09am
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and hardware stores had tube
and hardware stores had tube testers and sold tubes. the testers were notoriously inaccurate and *nobody* was about to let you return a tube. in combination with them being relatively expensive it created, for me, quite a bit of anxiety.
Christ I am old.
Wow! Flashback!
I remember seeing those tube-testing machines when I was a young kid and not knowing what the hell their function was. But hadn't thought about it at all until your post.
Christ, I am old too!
Egleston - early 1950s
Egleston - early 1950s
Corner of Columbus and Weld Ave
Same view today:
https://www.google.com/maps/@42.315177,-71.097613,3a,75y,279.95h,96.48t/data=!3m4!1e1!3m2!1s15VJOcHyfVZNDdFJkN6ZTg!2e0
All the Egleston signs made it easy. Did not know there was an Egleston cab company. Provides precedent for all the car companies in the neighborhood today.
Looks like...
Columbus or Washington Street near Elgeston Sq.
The Answer!
Thanks for playing folks! This is Egleston Square in Roxbury on June 15, 1948 at 10:10 am.