This is a picture of my Grandpa Don on the right. He worked at Guest Photo Art Shop for years. He had a little workroom where he repaired cameras and as years went by other electronics.
He was a great photographer and always had a camera with him. At the house he had a darkroom where he and my mom developed film and printed the photos. I will save those stories for another time.
Summers, when we would go up to Kalispell for a long visit, or when he and Grandma Lil came to visit, he would teach us how to make electronic things. We would solder transformers, wires, mini lights, other electric bits and pieces to electronic boards creating things. One was a light box where the lights went in a pattern. My dad made the box to hold all the electronics and the lights would stick out. I think I still have it in my keepsake box.
We tore apart their broken tv and take out all the tubes. Off to the store and the tube tester station to see which one was blown. Back home we would put the tv back together. The tv reception wasn’t very good in their area so the picture always had a lot of “snow”.
He never said that a girl can’t repair stuff. Between Grandpa Don, Grandma Lil and my parents, I learned that girls can do anything they set their mind to.
You know … we can.
Thanks for Listening.
Shibui