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Pete Meets
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Discover engineers, makers and techies with lesser known professions or hobbies. Learn something new and be entertained from my mini-movies.
Feel free to email me with personal or professional inquires.
Feel free to email me with personal or professional inquires.
The surprising need for mint condition tube TVs
✅ WATCH NEXT - VINTAGE VIDEO GEAR ua-cam.com/video/wB_A2zQ3gD4/v-deo.html
✅ YOU PASSED THESE COLD WAR AT&T TOWERS AND NEVER KNEW WHAT THEY WERE - ua-cam.com/video/QfHyy-4W5X0/v-deo.html
No matter how old a TV is in a script, directors expect them to look brand new and work perfectly on set so actors can give their best performance.
Let's discover how retro TVs are restored and hacked to meet these unique demands of Hollywood.
We're going to meet Steve Irwin, the owner of Playback Technologies. For over 30 years has held one of the most niche jobs in Hollywood: "24 Frame Playback".
Steve is going to explain what that means and share his collection of retro tube TVs, computers and custom TV hardware.
✅ YOU PASSED THESE COLD WAR AT&T TOWERS AND NEVER KNEW WHAT THEY WERE - ua-cam.com/video/QfHyy-4W5X0/v-deo.html
No matter how old a TV is in a script, directors expect them to look brand new and work perfectly on set so actors can give their best performance.
Let's discover how retro TVs are restored and hacked to meet these unique demands of Hollywood.
We're going to meet Steve Irwin, the owner of Playback Technologies. For over 30 years has held one of the most niche jobs in Hollywood: "24 Frame Playback".
Steve is going to explain what that means and share his collection of retro tube TVs, computers and custom TV hardware.
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Discovering vintage video gear with an expert (Apex Part 2)
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✅ WATCH NEXT - PART 1 - "The last electronics store" ua-cam.com/video/2Pb-M3uFdcQ/v-deo.html ✅ YOU PASSED THESE COLD WAR AT&T TOWERS AND NEVER KNEW WHAT THEY WERE - ua-cam.com/video/QfHyy-4W5X0/v-deo.html ✅ TELL ME WHO I SHOULD TALK TO NEXT! www.petemeets.com/contact Pete Meets returns to the legendary Apex Electronics in Los Angeles! On my last visit, we found a treasure trove of electronic hi...
The last electronics store in the United States
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✅ WATCH NEXT - PART 2 ON VINTAGE VIDEO GEAR ua-cam.com/video/wB_A2zQ3gD4/v-deo.html ✅ YOU PASSED THESE COLD WAR AT&T TOWERS AND NEVER KNEW WHAT THEY WERE - ua-cam.com/video/QfHyy-4W5X0/v-deo.html ✅ TELL ME WHO I SHOULD TALK TO NEXT! www.petemeets.com/contact Apex Surplus, located in Los Angeles County, is a legendary electronics store visited by hobbyists, engineers, and Hollywood prop makers f...
World's BEST Escape Room Designer!
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Michael Borys is the world's best Escape Room designer. Join me for an exclusive behind-the-scenes look at his private studio, as we explore the captivating world of 49 Boxes. For the first time, Michael reveals the inspiration behind his immersive puzzle experience and shares personal insights into the creative process. Discover the magic and mystery of 49 Boxes, as we delve into its intriguin...
Riding with Hollywood's $1 million camera supercar builder
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Pete Meets George Peters, a legend behind the camera. He’s a high school dropout turned Academy Award winner. George invented the Ultimate Arm, a camera stabilization system that can hold a steady shot while moving 110 miles per hour. Gerge’s Team build and race Baja 500 trucks so you won’t be surprised when you see his million-dollar camera supercars. I was lucky enough to be invited to ride s...
Exploring the cold-war phone system designed to survive a nuclear attack
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Hidden in plain sight is one of the most important communications networks in the US called AT&T long lines. ✅ WATCH NEXT - "The last electronics store" ua-cam.com/video/2Pb-M3uFdcQ/v-deo.html ✅ WATCH NEXT - VINTAGE VIDEO GEAR ua-cam.com/video/wB_A2zQ3gD4/v-deo.html ✅ TELL ME WHO I SHOULD TALK TO NEXT! www.petemeets.com/contact What are AT&T Long Lines? Before satellites and fiber optics transm...
I have seen a few of these installations, but the one that stands out the most to me is the site in downtown Los Angeles, where there is a high mid-century modern concrete tower with many horns in two or three levels of tower. Before I learned what these antennas actually were, I thought they were still in service today (the ones still intact). I worked for the US Navy at a base in Port Hueneme CA. We had Autovon phone lines in addition to commercial lines. Each employee had both an Autovon number and commercial number. The Autovon system was later called DSN (Defense Switched Network). We could only use a DSN line when talking to other military installations.
That is so funny we had a place in Adelaide South Australia 40 Years ago called Graham Electronics with much the same things that I see here but very, very much smaller.
There's more still around
1:26 Fruit of the Loom logo has no longer ever had a cornucopia. Mandela Effect.
I remember the 70's & 80's AM/FM Stereo Receivers like Harmon Kardon, JVC, Kenwood, Marantz, Nippon, Pioneer, Realistic, Sansui, Technics, & other brands that I mifht have left out!
Bring back good ANALOG Stereo & Electronics Stores!
No one talks about the frequencies that were used with these huge horn antennas. Based on size, waveguide and technology at the time 2 GHz, 6 GHz?
So glad I found this video. I really love the horn antennas something about how ominous they look and reminds me when I was a kid always on the hunt for these things.
There is one of these long line towers here in San Jose, Ca. on Communication Hill. Always see it off the freeway & was fascinated by the way it looks. Great video !!
high chair for a giant baby. ya okay.
He's not wrong in saying that switches used to take up whole buildings and now they can basically fit in a closet.
We have one of those on Asnebumskit Hill in Paxton Mass.
2:07 did Rick really just call the person who might have formerly owned that Meter a Choda? WTF Rick! do you even know what that means?
This is incredible, what would good to see is if people that know how all these units work would be documented and explain what they do as well as the details of its design and mechanincs. It could be archived for history on youtube
I would love to see inside it
This is so cool to see! when these were operational were the repeaters manned? I am curious if they still work? Also how close is the nearest town to this particular one?
PSM-4 is the multimeter I used in 1966-67 on the USS McKean. we had ONE for the ET shop. we treated it with care.
And here we are back in a cold war. Thanks Brandon & pals
Radio shack in north windham maine. Still open.
"last" electronics store. Desperate for views much ?
i wonder how much this would cost to buy
What a wonderful place. I wish there was a few of these stores in the UK where I live.
I have every one of those locks! Lol😂 like every one!
This is so cool! More videos pls
it was in most western countries incl south africa at the time
not the last one theres plenty more electronic stores like this in Texas
New Jersey has Wayne electronics
Where exactly is this place and what is it called? I would absolutely Love to go to this store, because I'm an electronics nerd and I would be in heaven here! We actually used to have a store similar to this in my city up to about 20 years ago when it went totally out of business, because this last generation just doesn't fix or work on or build anything electronic anymore, and as all of the older repair techs and ham radio guys die off, now no-one is interested in buying these kinds of component level parts anymore, so the store like this in my city didn't have enough sales on a regular basis to pay their building rent fees amd so they had to shut down! That was a VERY sad time for me because that store was always one of my regular go-tos for vintage electronic parts of ALL types!... Nowadays you never can tell if you're even getting a genuine original quality part if you order stuff online, and a LOT of this kind of stuff isn't even available online at all because they don't make it new anymore, so this type of store is a LITERAL goldmine for electronics hobbyists and repair techs, if there's anyone out there who's actually still into building and repairing vintage electronic stuff! I REALLY miss the store we had like this in my city, and nowadays there isn't really any place local for me to buy this sort of stuff anymore, which REALLY sucks for me because I'm still interested in all things vintage electronics, including stereo equipment gear, but you just hardly ever even see it anywhere anymore! :( So please do tell where this store is AND what it's called, so some of us who are still actually into vintage electronics can maybe travel there and see and shop at this truly beautiful, and greatly organized (for used and vintage surplus stuff anyway), store! This place is a real treasure, and you're VERY lucky to have such a place in your own city!! (Where is that?)
In north New Jersey we had nidisco
I happen to own a series 2 And I had it for years working on the railroad. And I restored it 3 years ago. And it's Sits in my collection of vintage test equipment. And my hobby is restoring vintage audio equipment. This is why I know about several. Several electronic stores that are still out there. Because I like to go and get parts from them.
Well, it's not the last electronic store in America. There's Harvey electronics in Spartanburg, South Carolina. There's jayso electronics White Plains road in The Bronx. There's still quite a few out there. If you look so don't claim, there's no more electronic doors. There are still out there old die hard stores.
I've never committed a crime but if anything might temp me it would be those PVMs. The 25" models. I love CRTs. I have a bunch but it's never enough!
Electronic Parts Outlet in Houston is very similar
How many remember….Olson Electronics, Allied Electronics and the recently departed Fry’s Electronics or All Electronics?
fortunately, it's NOT the last store. There's one in Houston, TX and Kenosha, Wisconsin.
Cables and connectors in Newington CT is a legitimate electronics store. It was open last year. Not sure anymore.
Certainly not the last electronics store in the US.
I love this store !!
0:51 Позвольте, у этого товарища телевизионные камеры лежат под открытым небом???
The end of the trend is "You´ll own nothing and be happy"... but happy, really?
In Greece there are plenty of electronic stores, but I prefer Mouser, Digikey or Conrad (German). The problem is, usually they do not have what I need, and the owners do not want anymore to search part trays for the 3 resistors I want and the rest of the discretes I requested.
uploaded some photos of Memphis Junction to the site this week
Kind of a wildly untrue clickbait sort of statement that this is the last electronics store in the US. We have one called skycraft in Orlando and there's a place in Sanford called acme. There's a couple of places in Illinois and Wisconsin called American science & surplus. And I bet you those exists there's probably a lot more. That being said Apex does look pretty neat.
All our surplus stores closed. High rents have driven them all out, can't survive as museum with high rents. I neighbor recently passed away and his daughter had a garage sale to clear out all his junk, tons of stuff like this ham radio stuff. no interest by anyone but boomers in this stuff.
Shwing.
Johnson City TN has or had 2 of these, I use to live in the area, moved last year, but they were still there the last time I was.
Where is this place located? There is Wayne Electronics in Wayne New Jersey on Rt 23. That's also a very good small vintage Electronics store.
I've written my name on the side of a few Western Electric KS series horn antennas when I was a kid. Back in high school, me and my friends would climb some of the old southern new england sites, and every once in a while one of the maintenance workers would pop their head through the platform hatch and scare the crap out of us! 🤣 This was back in the late 90's when they started to transition into new ownership, and have a new purpose. Most of the sites had their horn antennas removed for cell phone and comm service retrofits, but some sites still have them. Lots of cool cold war history in some of those sites.
There was one in down town jacksonville. They took the masts down. But if you go and try and photograph the building Cops come and move u along very quick.