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Page 26 PROGRESS 90 Wednesday April 25 Television iuble copy Laser video could be the next craze By DIAHANN NADEAU Herald Special Do you remember when a color television cost l and had to be watched in a dark room Gerrv Lang and Steve do They opened their first store on Main Street in Georgetown years ago They have seen a lot of changes in that time the electronics industry has produced technology that would have been unimaginable or 20 years ago I could not have imagined VCRs at all and I m surprised they re available at such low prices says Gerry Lang He points out that customer electronics the only field where prices have decreased for merchandise Can you imagine a car costing less than it did in Along with their wives Lisa Lang and Nina and a high school student the two men sell televisions CD players radios microwaves VCRs stereos CDs and tapes at their Sinclair Place location on Guelph Street It is their fifth location since they started out However they do plan to stay where they are for the foreseeable future Steve Pahchuk was born in Saskatchewan and came to On ago Before starting in business as television repairman he worked at A on the Avro Arrow He took night courses in electronics for a couple of during this time When the Arrow died went into his own business of television repair It was then he met Gem Lang another television repair man a fnendlv as Mr Lang puts it Mr Lang was born in Nuremberg West German and came to Canada in He moved to Georgetown in 1957 and started his own business after training in electronics In 1958 they went into business together opening a shop on Main St but moving a few months later into the Market plaza near Loblaws We started as a Marconi shop we had their great big clock for advertising says Mr Lang who is the company historian We were one of the first shops in the new plaza along with Loblaws and the Smoke Shop The plaza ended where there is now the passageway connecting the Zellers side with the s side In those days GS sold Admiral Spartan Marconi products None of those companies makes televi now Steve remembers the Admiral inch black console television It weigh a ton and lasted a long time Back then consoles were all the rage color television was outrageously expensive and you were replacing tubes has Improved so much Mr I points out you don have the heat problems you used to have with tubes You t even watch color television in a lit room Color came out in but it was in that G S began to sell more color than black and white Now they don even black and NBC in Buffalo used to three or four hours of color remembers Mr Lang Few shows were in color but the specials were shot m color Bob Hope specials and Ed Sullivan shows were someof the first to use color We all heard how sponsors pay millions of dollars to advertise on the highly rated it seems there is proof of the power of advertising During the first CanadaRussia series in they were advertising Ihe Zenith 30 set savs Mr and then everybody wanted a 4030 set It didn even have to be a Zenith but everyone remembered those numbers It seems that Zenith produces one of the longest lasting televisions in the business these days you tan expect your Zenith to last about 18 vears The next big thing in the industry could be the laser video New models will be coming out this year and there are currently about 1 movies available on laser disc While this technology has been around for awhile new models will be far advanced The machine will be able to play a disc from three to 12 inches double sided It will be high fidelity stereo and you can watch a movie on it or watch a CD many CDs now sold contain graphics which you can t see on your CD player When they t keeping up with new technology the like to pursue their hobbies for Steve it s fishing and gardening while Gerry sails his catamaran on Georgian Bay Compliments of NORTH HALT0N GOLF COUNTRY CLUB LTD Maple Ave at Trafalgar Rd Georgetown Golf Curling Tennis Social Memberships Phones 8775236 or UNDER FBk NEW MANAGEMENT Center I would like to introduce you to DIET CENTER My name is Jackie I am the new owner and counsellor of the Diet Center in Georgetown Diet Center has been in Georgetown for 10 years now as many of you know and for those who don t you will soon At Diet Center we offer daily counselling the field of weight control diet supervision and an education for a lifetime of weight control through learning the nutritional needs of the body We offer positive encouragement to our clients urging them to come back to- us for help in maintaining their desired weight Our program is an inexpensive alternative for people who need help losing weight Average weight loss is 17 lbs in weeks while eating nutritionally shopping at local grocery stores fruit markets and eating out We do not have prepackaged food so you don t need to learn to eat out of a box and then relearn in the real world Stabilization of the blood sugar concentration is the derlying principle of the Diet Center program Rapid or a severe drop in blood glucose results in feelings of hunger depression irritability weakness or the inability to think clearly 98 Mill St Georgetown 8772900 Jackie Owner Counsellor Diet Center Center UNDER MANAGEMENT On the Diet Center Program dieters learn that eating com plex carbohydrates on a schedule and eliminating refined sugar controls the insulin response When less insulin is secreted more fat can be burned for energy As a result rapid weight loss occurs and health is maintained Another plus for our progam is that people lose inches uniformly as pounds are lost at a rale of one measured inch per pound lost Past dieters will be happy to learn we have many new products as well as an expanded reducing food list Over have been added le Wow broccoli and The Diet Center Program mucn more than ust a diet It is truly the last weight control program an individual will ever need For more information and a free consultation call me at or drop in at Mill SI Georgetown Until the end of May receive all programs We lost over lbs since March Come in and om the losing game PERSONAL CONSULTATION