Video of the last TV dealers

[freakaftr8]

I know Sacramento Video carried RCA, GE and some Zenith brands.
I swear I remember a few Sentry2 27" sets that wouldn't sell in the back of the shop. One became the daily watcher in the tech area, always playing.
Of course that was before I worked there, after school I would go to my dad's work (family owned machine shop) and I used to venure over to Mikes shop to check out sets and the such. I was very intrigued my electronics at a young age and Mike would let me go back and check out what the tecs did and watch them repair sets. I remember the area of repaired sets and there one was a portacolor there. He still had a shelf of tubes and a tester then. This was around 1991.

That is where I got my first Sony KV-1220U. He repaired some component in it (I don't remember what it was) and the owner never came to pick it up. He sold it to me months later for like $20 bucks or something like that. I remember it had a semi weak tube. Alot of pink where white was and a pinkish raster. Eventually in my early years of tinkering I remember I managed to break off the Red drive knob and cracked the PCB. The raster went like all yellow. My dad got rid of it when I had it spread all over my bedroom floor after he told me a bunch of times to clean it up and I didn't. lol