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]]> http://blog.jr.com/radio-row-is-dead-but-long-live-jr/comment-page-1/#comment-39768 Bbeekman Mon, 21 Feb 2011 02:00:45 +0000 http://blog.jr.com/?p=9604#comment-39768 I worked briefly at Arrow Radio in 1950 at the start of the Korean War. It was because one of their stock clerks, Hank G., was about to be drafted into the Army and Arrow needed a replacement that I got the job on the second floor amidst thousands of condensers, tubes, transformers, wiring, sockets, etc. We would find a part for the sales dept. on the ground floor and put it on the dumbwaiter to be picked up below. Also on the second floor were the salesmen who, it seemed to me, were forever answering the telephones taking orders. If I looked out the front window to the right I could see the West Side Highway. Looking to my left I could look up Cortlandt St. and see a Nedick's about a block away. Once I went with one of the salesmen to the Techmaster television factory and watched as dozens of women wired up RCA 630 chassis' to be installed in cabinets and sold with the Techmaster nameplate. They paid RCA a royalty for use of what was then the "classic" television design. I also had to keep the books up-to-date regarding our parts inventory. This was an onerous job since I had to spend hours in a tiny closet-like room entering invoice data into the ledger. The room had only one small window that opened onto a backyard so there was nothing to see that would intetest a 19 year old like me. As is usually the case with teenagers I quickly tired of it, having just completed a 10 month course at the Delehanty School of Radio and Television and eager to work at what I had learned there. After a short time at Arrow I left and soon landed a job in the Andrea Radio and Television factory in Long Island City doing test work on the newly manufactured sets. I never returned to Cortlandt St. except one time to buy a "G.I." tuner for the tv set I had built at Delehanty. Next time I heard of Cortlandt St. it was being made ready for the World Trade Center. I worked briefly at Arrow Radio in 1950 at the start of the Korean War. It was because one of their stock clerks, Hank G., was about to be drafted into the Army and Arrow needed a replacement that I got the job on the second floor amidst thousands of condensers, tubes, transformers, wiring, sockets, etc. We would find a part for the sales dept. on the ground floor and put it on the dumbwaiter to be picked up below. Also on the second floor were the salesmen who, it seemed to me, were forever answering the telephones taking orders. If I looked out the front window to the right I could see the West Side Highway. Looking to my left I could look up Cortlandt St. and see a Nedick's about a block away. Once I went with one of the salesmen to the Techmaster television factory and watched as dozens of women wired up RCA 630 chassis' to be installed in cabinets and sold with the Techmaster nameplate. They paid RCA a royalty for use of what was then the “classic” television design. I also had to keep the books up-to-date regarding our parts inventory. This was an onerous job since I had to spend hours in a tiny closet-like room entering invoice data into the ledger. The room had only one small window that opened onto a backyard so there was nothing to see that would intetest a 19 year old like me. As is usually the case with teenagers I quickly tired of it, having just completed a 10 month course at the Delehanty School of Radio and Television and eager to work at what I had learned there. After a short time at Arrow I left and soon landed a job in the Andrea Radio and Television factory in Long Island City doing test work on the newly manufactured sets. I never returned to Cortlandt St. except one time to buy a “G.I.” tuner for the tv set I had built at Delehanty. Next time I heard of Cortlandt St. it was being made ready for the World Trade Center.

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