WEBVTT 00:00:34.050 --> 00:00:44.516 - company and my grandfather started this 1944 and originally him and his brothers started full of PEP 00:00:44.516 --> 00:00:55.085 - appliance him and two of his brothers when radio came out big my grandfather split off started stands 00:00:55.085 --> 00:01:03.582 - for radio 1944 like I say that was on Prospect Hill over on Roger Street and they 00:01:04.162 --> 00:01:13.684 - had a duplex. The business was in one side and they lived in the other side. And he bought this property 00:01:13.684 --> 00:01:22.844 - here in 1953. Built the building you see now and been here ever since. Still in the family. I have a 00:01:22.844 --> 00:01:32.638 - picture here if you're interested in looking at it. This here is my grandfather. This was his two brothers. 00:01:33.858 --> 00:01:43.772 - And that's a newspaper clipping from back in the 30s. So they've been entrepreneurs in this area for 00:01:43.772 --> 00:01:53.587 - quite a few years. And the business has changed a lot through the years. Of course, radio's not the 00:01:53.587 --> 00:02:02.814 - repair business it was. We graduated into the TV repair and covered most of southern Indiana. 00:02:03.746 --> 00:02:15.103 - delivering parts to TV repair shops everywhere. And that basically carried us through the 50s, 60s, 00:02:15.103 --> 00:02:26.915 - 70s, 80s, and even into the 90s. And as we know, not very many people fix TVs anymore. So that business 00:02:26.915 --> 00:02:33.502 - has gone away. We graduated into the industrial business. 00:02:33.954 --> 00:02:42.870 - doing business with Indiana University, several different industrial places around here, and the medical 00:02:42.870 --> 00:02:51.447 - industry. The medical industry's been huge in our success here through the years and still continues 00:02:51.447 --> 00:03:00.024 - on. Do you still get many like radio and TV hobbyists coming in? We do. We get quite a few hobbyists 00:03:00.024 --> 00:03:03.166 - coming in. Not what it once was, but 00:03:03.298 --> 00:03:11.711 - Still, we've got some amateur radio operators that show up, and just your general hobbyists. It's great. 00:03:11.711 --> 00:03:19.883 - Yeah, I played in here when I was a kid. I started working here 54 years ago when I was 13 years old. 00:03:19.883 --> 00:03:28.536 - My grandfather would find things for me to do. I'd mow the lawn, paint the building, put up stock, anything 00:03:28.536 --> 00:03:32.702 - he could find to keep me busy and keep me involved. 00:03:32.802 --> 00:03:40.745 - That was great. That was great. A lot of great memories. That's why I'm still here. That's why we're 00:03:40.745 --> 00:03:49.002 - still going. My mother worked here. It was her dad that started the business. She passed away four years 00:03:49.002 --> 00:03:56.866 - ago, but she was involved in the business through all those years. We worked together. My wife is a 00:03:56.866 --> 00:04:00.798 - bookkeeper in there in the office. She takes care 00:04:00.962 --> 00:04:10.229 - She takes care of the money. I take care of spending it. I've got a pretty good selection of old radios 00:04:10.229 --> 00:04:19.139 - up here that a lot of people have come in and admired through the years and starting from the clock 00:04:19.139 --> 00:04:25.822 - there, which everybody likes my clock up there. That one's a 1923 and then 00:04:26.210 --> 00:04:34.089 - 1928, 1937, a lot of different ones that are pretty neat pieces. Like you say, a lot of things have 00:04:34.089 --> 00:04:42.362 - changed through the years. That shelf right there and the back shelf back there used to be all receiving 00:04:42.362 --> 00:04:50.242 - tubes to fix your TVs with. As you see, none of that exists anymore. You can take a look around. We 00:04:50.242 --> 00:04:54.654 - got a lot of different parts. We got a lot of different 00:04:54.914 --> 00:05:09.413 - cables, connectors, lamps, relays, fuses, capacitors, resistors, just you name it. I think at last count, 00:05:09.413 --> 00:05:22.270 - we had 28,000 part numbers. And that's a lot. That's a lot, yep. We do sell wire by the foot. 00:05:24.194 --> 00:05:31.107 - You got it all spooled up and I know it looks a mess back here but a lot of people don't need a thousand 00:05:31.107 --> 00:05:37.955 - feet of cable or whatever you need as we'll try to supply it for you. There used to be stereo equipment 00:05:37.955 --> 00:05:44.539 - all around the room in here and you could control everything from this old panel right here. If you 00:05:44.539 --> 00:05:51.518 - wanted to hear an amplifier, you'd push the button. If you wanted to hear an accessory to that amplifier, 00:05:51.810 --> 00:06:02.096 - This button, any set of speakers, you could do the whole thing. Just stand right here and turn everything 00:06:02.096 --> 00:06:11.897 - on in the room. It's pretty neat. My grandfather's design here. I got this stereo right here that we 00:06:11.897 --> 00:06:21.310 - still listen to every day. That was my graduation present from high school in 1970s. Wow. Great. 00:06:22.274 --> 00:06:30.627 - A lot of old stuff in here, including me. The crystal radio was the first circuitry thing I ever messed 00:06:30.627 --> 00:06:38.899 - with. And it's like this bunch of little wires and stuff and a crystal. You can pull in radio signals. 00:06:38.899 --> 00:06:46.931 - It's pretty cool. That's a pretty good start in electronics for most young kids. Well, I would like 00:06:46.931 --> 00:06:49.822 - to say thank you for the community. 00:06:51.042 --> 00:07:00.049 - community of Bloomington and others around the surrounding area that's kept our business thriving through 00:07:00.049 --> 00:07:08.546 - the years. So we appreciate each and every one of our customers and always good to see you come in. 00:07:08.546 --> 00:07:17.214 - Thank you. Hi, my name is Dave Lindley with the National Free Flight Society. We're here today at the 00:07:17.214 --> 00:07:19.678 - beautiful West Bodden Resort 00:07:19.874 --> 00:07:28.077 - Flying a sport we call indoor free flight. It's a pretty simple concept, a rubber band powered airplane. 00:07:28.077 --> 00:07:36.123 - Some are very large, some are very small, but they're all very light. The heaviest airplane you'll see 00:07:36.123 --> 00:07:43.935 - fly today weighs 3.1 grams, which is the weight of a US penny. The bigger ones you see are actually 00:07:43.935 --> 00:07:47.294 - lighter. They are the international class. 00:07:47.554 --> 00:07:56.131 - and they weigh about 1.4 grams. And in this room today, we have the current world champion, Brett Sanborn, 00:07:56.131 --> 00:08:01.662 - and we have four previous world champions in this room flying today. 00:08:14.658 --> 00:08:22.931 - So we actually fly all over the world at big, voluminous buildings like this. The West Baden Resort 00:08:22.931 --> 00:08:31.370 - is very nice for us because there's so much area in the round. But we fly in old blimp hangers around 00:08:31.370 --> 00:08:32.446 - the country. 00:08:32.546 --> 00:08:41.274 - In December, we took the US team to the World Championships in a salt mine in Romania. So 800 00:08:41.274 --> 00:08:50.930 - feet underground, but the cavern height is 185 feet. So if you have a large open room, we will be there 00:08:50.930 --> 00:08:55.294 - flying. Great. You guys could use a new hobby. 00:09:00.642 --> 00:09:09.982 - like cut up in the shirt like oh it's gonna hit me in the face