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Remember When: Store brought newest productis in electronics to Quinte: Booth's Radio & TV, part 2

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dUo and Booth's Radio and TV was owned and operated by the late Howard Booth who started a radio repair service downtown with his father, Arthur, a city police sergeant, in 1945. In later years the store introduced televisions when demands for the new medium began to pick up. BENZIE SANGMA Intelligencer f> . J> Since 1945, Booth's Radio and TV provided the latest Trends in electronics. Once located in downtown Belleville, Booth's initially offered radio repair service and later awed its customers with black and white televisions lined up on its shelves in the '50s. This was also the store that, according to a former employee, once had at least one local father of teenage daughters gnashing his teeth over a particular product that it carried in later years -- a line of Honda motorcycles. "It was something the young people felt they had to have. The store sold them like peanuts," said 70-year-old Marilyn Hull-Ethier, an erstwhile credit manager at Booth's Radio and TV, owned and operated by the late Howard Booth. A parent of two daughters, she vividly recalled sharing her husband's constant anxiety over the likelihood of their children going for a ride on the back of the motorcycles with their friends. "My husband called them 'murder'

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