The cover of National Radio News, the publication of the National Radio Institute home study school, for June-July 1944 shows the exterior of Meadwell’s Radio & Electirc, 110-3rd Ave. S., Saskatoon, Saskatchewan.
Shown by the truck at the left are the owners, Mr. & Mrs. John D. Meadwell, both graduates of of NRI. They wrote to the magazine of their gratitude to the school for the training and cooperation received, and that they owed their success to NRI.
They reported that they had done wonderfully well and believed that they had the largest radio repair shop in Saskatoon.
The building in which the shop was located was known as the Dinkle Building, and was destroyed by fire in 1986. The three-story building had shops on the lower level, with the top two floors being residential. More pictures can be found at the Saskatoon Public Library website.
Radio repair technicians were warned always to keep one hand inside their pocket when working on live HT to avoid being shocked! In UK anyway where mains is 230 -250 volts.