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I grew up around men who were always working on something. Cars mostly, but they dabbled in repairing lawn mowers, washing machines, TV sets, radios and much more. Radios you ask? Yes radios. Not a solid state radio like we have today, but a radio that used vacuum tubes. Vacuum tubes looked similar to a light bulb, except the glass casing was clear and the bulb’s glow was orange rather than white. If a bulb went out, we just walked down to the local corner store and found a replacement tube with the same number or its alternate.

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