Ray TV,
3528 and 4053 East Hastings Street
Made by Neon Products, c.1957, H996.22.4
Photograph on the left by Shani Whitbread
Photograph on the right by Troy Whitbread
Television was such a novelty
when it was first introduced to Vancouver that TV stores left the sets on
in their windows. Gord Cousins, who blew glass at Neon Products in the 1950s,
recalls the night he and fellow workers headed out to watch the Joe Louis
prize fight after work. They drove out East Hastings to Ray TV, hoping to
watch the first live telecast of a fight through the shop window. But reception
was lousy that night. Nevertheless, TV was such a novelty that they happily
stood on the sidewalk and watched the "snow" for half an hour.
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