11-28-2011
( Reply#: 7504 ) |
seejay2 |
Oh Yes!! SAMS was the bible of schematics. The thing I remember most about them was the fact that, as you said, every single edition had several TV makes and models, several radios, car radios, phonographs and other misc items---maybe about 12 different things in all. But every time I needed a schematic, I still never had the right SAMS and would have to buy another. I think they were $3.50 apiece at the time. I had a bunch of those but I don't remember what happened to them all...Cj
BTW: the store was EDI |
11-28-2011
( Reply#: 7505 ) |
duane |
quote:
Originally posted by seejay2
Oh Yes!! SAMS was the bible of schematics. The thing I remember most about them was the fact that, as you said, every single edition had several TV makes and models, several radios, car radios, phonographs and other misc items---maybe about 12 different things in all. But every time I needed a schematic, I still never had the right SAMS and would have to buy another. I think they were $3.50 apiece at the time. I had a bunch of those but I don't remember what happened to them all...Cj
BTW: the store was EDI
Was this on the corner of Chicago Avenue and Northcote? |
11-28-2011
( Reply#: 7506 ) |
HassoBenSoba |
There was also an EDI on South Calumet Ave, across from Edison
School (in the 70's-80's).
LR |
11-28-2011
( Reply#: 7507 ) |
tom w |
Yes, that is correct. Sams is still in business as a publisher on the Web. I also had an Elecaric Motor Repair book that opened like a regular book then each side opened again making each page four pages wide and each page was made so that if you got grease or dirt on it, you could just wipe it off or wash it with soap and water.
By the way, there was a school on Calumet Ave in 1963 from Detroit called Radio Electronics Television Schools. They had four classes.
1. Radio
2. Television
3. Industrial Electronics
4. First Class FCC.
We went thru the first three and by the time we got to number four, there was only two of us left. The instructor said he couldnt teach a class with just two students and we two went to the hammond Times and at the Gary Post Trib, where my cousin Marsha Hahney worked.
The school disappeared. Tom W |
11-29-2011
( Reply#: 7508 ) |
seejay2 |
I used to do business with both EDI's. The one on Northcote was all the people from the old Broadwins on Vine & Kennedy after the fire. The one on Calumet always seemed to have the oddball little things you couldn't find anywhere else.
There also used to be another place on Grant St right off of Ridge Rd, but I don't remember the name of it. One had to be a licensed TV guy or a card carrying student to even get in the door there...Cj |
11-29-2011
( Reply#: 7509 ) |
tom w |
There was also an electric supply house on Calumet Ave next to the South Shore tracks that I frequented because they gave away great mechanical pencils. Instead of erasers on the top, they had little red caps that you used to dial your phone!! They lasted forever too.
Times sure have changed, huh. Tom W |
11-29-2011
( Reply#: 7510 ) |
Paddy |
Yes, times have sure changed. I was telling a person in her 30's about riding in the rumble seat of a neighbor's car, and she looked at me like I was nuts. She could not picture how anyone could ride in the trunk of a car! |
11-29-2011
( Reply#: 7511 ) |
seejay2 |
Jeez!! That was how you got into the drive-ins!!...Cj
|
11-29-2011
( Reply#: 7512 ) |
BobK |
Tom W, that was Electric Supply Corp. My sister-in-law and her husband worked there for many years until they closed. I have one of those pencils.
Bob
|
11-29-2011
( Reply#: 7513 ) |
tom w |
Bob; If, like you, I had a wiener whistle and one of those pencils and a single-blade Barlow knife, I would die a happy man. LOL
Why did you happen to hang on to those things?
Paddy; Here is a neat bit of a trivia quiz for you. Do you know what people did with their 2-door cars during prohibition? Tom W |
11-29-2011
( Reply#: 7514 ) |
BobK |
Tom, I have more things from Hammond business that I have kept over the years.
Here's a knife but not the one you want.
[img]http://i850.photobucket.com/albums/ab70/BobK1942/Misc/WelcomeInn-1.jpg[/img]
They probably took the back seat out to haul more booze. I had a cousin that lived in TN for awhile and ran whiskey from KY.
Bob
|
11-29-2011
( Reply#: 7515 ) |
tom w |
Bob; Thats a beauty. The first KFC in Hammond was close to that address. There are many Barlows left and even more Knock-offs.
But there are very few single blades. I bought one as a youngster in a hardware store in Kirksville Mo. I have not seen one since. That particular knife advertised that the blade was so tough you could shave the threads off of a bolt. you really could too.
I'll hold off on the trivia thing to give Paddy and others time to guess too. (you are on the right track though) Tom W |
