Trip back in time to the Hobby Shop

........Or "radio" stores. My Gramps had a huge stash of old science/ mechanics magazines when we moved into the house, when I was 6. These went back into the 30's and clear up into the then present day, which was about 1954. I read the hell outta them. Each month was a "radio project" and occasionally they would show a depiction of the guy at the "radio store", stocked with shelves of vacuum tubes and other goodies.

When I got to Treasure Island, San Francisco, I found out "there really had been" that type of store. There was a big "military surplus" store in San Francisco, "downtown," as well as a radio /TV shop --either part of it or next door, don't remember. Yup---shelves of electronic parts, just like in an auto parts store