Following through with suggestion to Woodland

Good idea!

And hmmm.   I'm going to have about half an AGI store left after I bash my two.  And I have always wanted a TV/Radio store.  I think I will make oneSpent enough time in one as a kid with my Dad - we were always replaced vacuum tubes.

I'm thinking, some blueish white LEDs at low voltage and a bit dim as TV screens back in the store.  Cool.

I'm really excited about your idea, josef, of a TV-Radio store.  I have so memories of them as a kid, and my father lost in concentration at the tube-testor machine as he checked out what was wrong with our TV this week, etc. 

You saw my IGA grocery bash yesterday on the O-27 forum.  I made this building also as I said there.  I had left it incomplete now and plkan to do a full interior, etc.  It is incomplete now and my intention it so rig it out as a TV & Radio Shop.  I'm trying to think of how to make small TVs that appear to be working - a small LED will do for a screen but it would be nice if it flickered just a bit.  I have an Evans designs welding kit board I use in a garage that causes a welder-like flicker, but that is a bit too much.  I wonder if anyone has any ideas how to made LEDs flicker just a tiny bit.   I'll post something on the electronics forum.

Lee...

Nice building!  You and my long-departed Mom apparently had similar resourcefulness-genes...

'It's amazing what you can do with leftovers!'  Hers were tasty. Yours are in good taste!

BTW...  A couple thoughts for your TV store...  Re the 'flickering' lights.  I would think a welding module would cause the TV lights to look like defective appliances...having trouble staying lit.  Rather, a circuit that randomly switches intensity every 3-4 seconds...a dimmer setting, if you will...I would think a better representation of changing TV views.  Just MHO.

Also, you need a plethora of TV antennas rooftop.  Assuming you're capturing the 50's, it was the only way to get the signal to the one-eyed monster in the living room, as I recall.  Ours had a gizmo-with-knob that you set, causing a motor on the antenna to rotate it to the 'optimum' alignment.  (Well, so the sales pitch went!)  So the TV store at the top of the hill in our neighborhood had about six antennas...or more...positioned for the six...or more...broadcasting stations in the area that could provide a variety of shows on the boob-toobs for sale in the store.  I remember that there was one especially weird antenna on the roof of the store (hard to describe) which, if my memory hasn't completely left me!, the proprietor told Dad was the one which served the TV repair bench in the back of the store...not for sale...WAY too big for attaching to the chimney on our house!

Keep us posted!  BTW...love the animated horsey at the front of the IGA, too!!

KD

Nice idea.  I would have forgotten about that.  I will remember, thanks.