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Ed Stuebe Repair & Appliance
Repair
1022 N. Second St.
2008
06 02 60th ANNIVERSARY
Over 50,000 televisions,
radios, stereos and phonographs owned by local and area residents have been
repaired by Ed Stuebe, 83, of Watertown. He is celebrating his 60th year in business
this month as Watertown’s first TV repairman.
“Fixing televisions is sort of like hunting for a strange animal in a
jungle,” Stuebe said while reminiscing on his years
in business. “Usually when a TV isn’t
acting right seldom is it one thing, because one thing affects another.” Stuebe began his
fascination with electronics at a young age by building crystal radios, small
amplifiers and phonographs. He began his
electronic repair business in Watertown in 1948 after completing his tour in
Europe during World War II. By the 1950s
television sets arrived and few people in Watertown knew much about fixing
them. Stuebe
said he made it his mission to learn all he could about televisions by taking
them apart and putting them back together.
He also took classes at Milwaukee School of Engineering, and through RCA
and General Electric.
Cross reference note:
In my family we called him
"Tubey Stube" as
he fixed the TV with tubes. My mom
called him to solve all sorts of problems. He even diagnosed her back problem!
History of Watertown, Wisconsin