Tech Know-How Backs Al's Radio and TV

Al Marulli spent his entire life in Chicago before moving to Lake Zurich in November of 1955.

He is a graduate of Loyola Academy and the American Television Institute of Technology. Marulli worked in a radio shop in Chicago during his school years and later served three years in the Navy. Following the war, he was a TV service manager for the North Shore Talking Machine Co. in Evanston from 1949 to 1957.

Al surveyed Chicago and its suburbs and decided Lake Zurich was an excellent location and a promising community for a TV service shop. He started working here evenings and weekends in June 1956, and by January of '57 had established a shop and was working three days a week here and three days in Evanston.

Business increased so rapidly that in June of '57 he decided to come to Lake Zurich full-time and expanded to sales as well as service.

Al is an authorized dealer for Zenith, RCA, Muntz and Grundig Magestic. Al said business was at an all-time high and was very busy planning the move of his shop to a larger location in Lake Zurich. His new location was at 29 North Rand Rd. (formally Bezdek's store for Men) and opened in December. Despite this move, his service department continued to operate uninteruped.

Al's Radio and TV was located one store down on the northwest corner from the intersection of Old Rand Rd and Route 22.

(Adapted From the Special Historical Edition of 
The Frontier Enterprise Newspaper (no longer in circulation).

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