TV Shop on "The Lucy Show"

[jshorva65]

Originally Posted by Charlie

There's only one thing about that shop that doesn't seem realistic... it's unusually clean and organized. I've been to many shops, and don't think I've seen one that clean! Seems there's always stuff, parts, papers, meters, and chassis laying around... even in the area where the customer would be. Perhaps they were just more organized back in those days.

Exactly! My bench is almost always littered with frequently-used tools, a pile or two of junk wax capacitors, and several clip leads. I try to keep all my new parts and tubes stored neatly away in their bins, boxes, or bags as much as possible. Then, on a slow day, I'll go on a cleaning spree, putting all the tools back in the toolbox, tossing the junked caps in the trash, and hanging up the test leads on wall hooks. In another day or so, it's back to looking like a disorganized mess.

A client picking up his restored '53 Buick radio this week remarked during the final demonstration of the serviced set that the shop looked like something out of a sci-fi flick. Someone else remarked that my shop looked like "Doc Brown's lab" from Back to the Future.