This video shows a typical day at the Televents Cable TV warehouse in Martinez, California. I think this was probably from the late 1980s or early 1990s. Every morning at 8 AM, myself and co-workers, the installers and service technicians arrived here. We had until 9 AM to discuss the day’s work, and stock our trucks with parts and cable boxes. Occasionally we had meetings (sometimes with coffee and doughnuts) where safety and technical issues were reviewed.
I apologize for the dumb, primitive special effects. My VCR, a JVC had built-in effects and I just had to use them. I realize that was definitely a mistake! At the end of the video, the word “Dispatch” appears as a reminder to view the other video about my former employment.
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Follow-up comment rss or Leave a TrackbackThanks for the time travel opportunity. By the time the video ended, I felt acclimated to the cultural differences between today and then. I had to look up “flat lead”, though. I grew up messing with everything like that, but I think I made up terms for some of those things when I was very young. Those flat-lead connectors were definitely one of those things. Incidentally, this was probably shot sometime shortly after or during 1990, because one of the ball caps has “1990” written on it.
Ed, you are absolutely correct!