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We have a Rexall drugstore in Midland (Graham Pharmacy). They still have the old soda fountain where you can get malteds, sandwiches, etc. Also there is a drugstore downtown in Eastland, Texas with its soda fountain. Seems like in Eastern New Mexico/West Texas there are still a lot of towns with downtown drugstores, Coast to Coast and Western Auto stores, IGA stores downtown, etc.
These little towns often have a Radio Shack dealer (not company owned store), too. The radio shack dealers are independent licensees of the R.S. brand and are sometime general stores with other products, too such as hardware. Because the store owner owns all his or her inventory, they are a lot more likely to hold on to old products...some small town Texas radio shacks still have tubes and phono styli but have not seen a tube tester.
I remember R.S. stores selling their tube testers around 1986, 87 or so in the store as "manager's specials". for around $50-$75.
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