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JustABozoOnThisBus

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1. Occasionally, the AM radio in my car would stop working.

Reply to Koch Ebola (Original post)

Thu Aug 9, 2018, 05:37 AM

Aug 2018

I'd take some tools, lie on the floor, and remove the radio from under the dash. Pop the cover (many screws holding it), pull all the vacuum tubes.

With my box of tubes, I'd head for the pharmacy to use their tube-testing machine. Locate the bad tube, find a replacement in the cabinet under the tester, pay a bit of money, and replace all the tubes in the radio.

Hooray! A working radio! Life is good again!

I understood that pharmacies also sold pills to old people, but their main function in those years was to keep my radio going.

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A Baby Boomer memory about a drug store in my old neighborhood [View all] Koch Ebola Aug 2018 OP

Occasionally, the AM radio in my car would stop working. JustABozoOnThisBus Aug 2018 #1

Two "drug stores" in my small hometown both had soda fountains. Laurian Aug 2018 #2