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Originally Posted by wa2ise
A few years ago in the next town over from here, we lost a local TV repair shop. Zenith sign. They did jukeboxes too. Building it was in was wood frame construction, a plumber installing some copper pipe with a blow torch set some wood smoldering and later that night the place burned down. Nobody was in there thankfully. A replacement building is almost done, but somehow I doubt that the TV repair shop will return....
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That's sad... Hopefully there weren't any vintage sets in there. In the early 90s, a TV shop burned down in Sylmar, CA (near me here in the Los Angeles area). It was in business since the 70s. I went over there the next day, and I could see plenty of roundies and lots of salvagable stuff in there. The roof was caved in, and there was a fence put up. Otherwise, I might have taken a Sunday tour and saved some of it. That shop, even then, decided to take the insurance and run. (It wasn't arson; it was a dry cleaners that had something start the accidental fire in the same building during the night)
Charles