TV repair shop photos/advertizing signs

[drh4683]

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[freakaftr8]

U know what would be really cool on this site!! Take a snapshot of tv repair shops signs still in or our of buisness around our cities and towns. Like the ne down from my house here. Diamond tv still has a Zenith quality goes in before the name goes on sign on the building. He is not doing much I. The order of repair anymore but it still Is nice to drive by it and see the sign.

[N9ZQA]

We've still got a local shop in our area. Toton's TV in Crest Hill, IL. I don't know how much repair they're doing these days but they advertise a lot of the newer LCD sets, etc.

I remember a lot of Zenith shops when I was growing up. We had one in the town I was raised in that was also the post office, and there were many rainbow-colored Zenith signs in the surrounding area.

Doug - where'd your pictures go? My grandparents always had their TVs repaired at Bud's - I remember my grandmother having the repairman leave the old parts so she'd have something to show me the next time I came over.

-Jim

[AUdubon5425]

There's an appliance store in Gramercy, La. that still has the Zenith & RCA signs in the window, probably form the 70's or 80's. Unfortunately, the only time I'm out that way is at night. Maybe I could get a picture.

There's also a TV shop in Tylertown, Miss. that still has Philco-Ford signage.

[andy]

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[drh4683]

Here are the pics of Bud's TV in Harvey, IL (a now not so good south suburb of chicago). Got some other TV shop pics as well as my favorite sign of them all. After the big zenith sign is a picture of the now gone Hallmark TV in North Riverside, IL. The front windows of that shop are where the zenith curtians I have came from. Ever since I was a kid I wanted those curtains and then I got word that the shop was closing down. He was throwing everything away. I asked about the curtains and he said if I could take them down they were mine. There was more too it than that. That was August 9, 06. I think I made a thread about that interesting event. I also used to go to Carmens TV in Berwyn, he always let me putz around in the basement where he had a bunch of scrap chassis, many of which were zenith and rca tube type. He always kinda figured I was in it for the money though. He was one of those guys who thought that because the stuff was old then it was worth all kinds of money. He didn't understand that I was just a kid who loved tinkering with the stuff and only had interest in his "junk" to help keep my hobby alive. He had NOS space command 600 remotes and I remember he told me "I can get over $100 for one of these to the right guy". I could never buy tubes from him though. He had a 1984 ECG philips tube price list on the wall still and I remember tubes like a 6GH8 were somewhere around $15.00. Then he'd say "yeah, $15.00 back in '84. Today I should sell that tube for alteast twice that because nobody makes tubes anymore". He was kind of a scam artist but we always got along. He offered me a job there when I was in high school working part time fixing VCR's. He had shelves full of VCR's and he told me how much he hated working on them and wanted to find a "kid" who could do it for him and work on commission. That shop was a disaster of a mess though, you had to walk sideways to move through the stacked up TV's in the front. It was old restaurant that turned into a TV shop back in the 60's. The lights and fixtures with wood paneling walls were still present from the restaurant days. It was fun, but it only lasted a couple months then he pulled the pin and retired and never heard from him again.

[freakaftr8]

That is so awesome Doug! That repair shop, Bud's TV, That same sign is here at Diamond TV.

[kx250rider]

Here's an old shop I found in a little town up in the mountains in Arizona, east of Mesa... It looked to be abandoned, but still had tons of old TVs and stuff in it. Sadly all in terrible shape due to holes in the roof, and vagrants living in the building. The blond girl looking in the window is my wife Kay.





Charles

[freakaftr8]

You know whats funny, If I didn't know any better it would look like that Emerson set is on with a dim snowy raster! lol

[OvenMaster]

I have GOT to get a digital camera into my local Cracker Barrel restaurant. There's a HUGE Zenith Radio repair shop sign, three unknown tube radios on a shelf, and at least two tube caddies with tube boxes all together on one wall!

[freakaftr8]

Here is Diamond TV in Diamond Springs.

[Phil Nelson]

I drive past this place a few times every week. Need to stop in some time and ask if they have any old TVs stashed in the back.

Phil Nelson

[freakaftr8]

This is such a cool thread! It's nice to see the repair shop buildings still standing!!

[Findm-Keepm]

There are a bunch of TV shops in this area that have closed up, but Google thankfully mapped them and captured them a few years ago. If you know of a place like this in your area, check the Google Street View and see if the shop was "captured" by their cameras.

My Dad closed his shop over a year ago - all signage is now gone, but in Google, it lives!!

Cheers,

[bgadow]

I firmly believe in documenting as many of these shops as we can, including talking to the owners and writing things down. I need to do more of it. I have some photos I'll dig out and post-some are on my work computer, some I need to scan.