Can find a battery for old faithful?
As cameras that require batteries get older, you may discover that the battery it takes is no longer readily available. The simple solution is your nearest Radio Shack store. The company has long been known as the place to go to get unusual electronic items. Your editor recently needed a 9 volt Lithium battery pack for my old fateful favorite K-14 Kodak. While the local store did not stock them, the clerk telephoned Dallas, Texas, Radio Shack’s headquarters, which replied that the battery would be shipped directly to me within five days. Do you know more about Detrola cameras? A reader wants to know. In Glass Brass & Chrome we wrote as much about the company as we could find in 1972. Since that time all traces of the company seem to have disappeared. Even the local library has no information that it ever existed. However, we have recently received information from a young man who has taken on the task of solving the mystery we will be pleased to print his research in the next issue. Ca
