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Once, every neighborhood had a TV and radio repair shop

Old Boston street scene

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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.

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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!

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Egleston - early 1950s

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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.

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Columbus or Washington Street near Elgeston Sq.

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Thanks for playing folks! This is Egleston Square in Roxbury on June 15, 1948 at 10:10 am.

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