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This 1962 postcard was mailed from a Minneapolis-based company called Electronic Arts, promoting television repair services with a humorous typewritten message. Referencing The Bullwinkle Show, the copy pokes fun at viewers\' loyalty to network programming while subtly pressing the urgency of fixing a broken set to restore family contentment.
The phone number listed—TA 4-0311—uses the older telephone exchange naming system (TA for TAlbot), which helps date the card to the early 1960s and situates it firmly in the mid-century American domestic era, when TV was the centerpiece of family entertainment.
There is no known connection between this local Minneapolis repair business and the modern-day video game company Electronic Arts Inc., which was founded in 1982 in California.
The postcard reflects a slice of Cold War-era culture where even appliance services were marketed with humor, nostalgia, and pop culture references that remain recognizable today.
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