{"id":3240,"date":"2011-11-26T10:18:21","date_gmt":"2011-11-26T17:18:21","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/index.php\/2011\/11\/the-scanner-man\/"},"modified":"2011-11-28T10:23:13","modified_gmt":"2011-11-28T17:23:13","slug":"the-scanner-man","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/2011\/11\/26\/the-scanner-man\/","title":{"rendered":"The Scanner Man"},"content":{"rendered":"

from The New York Times<\/a><\/em><\/p>\n

Fixated on What He Fixes<\/h1>\n

<\/p>\n

Julie Glassberg for The New York Times<\/p>\n

HAMS<\/strong>\u00a0Peter Guggenheim, perhaps New York City’s foremost seller and repairer of radio scanners, which monitor frequencies used by emergency responders like police officers and firefighters, in his shop in Flushing, Queens.<\/p>\n

<\/nyt_byline><\/p>\n

By\u00a0COREY KILGANNON<\/a><\/h6>\n

Peter Guggenheim has worked so long at\u00a0Stuart Electronics<\/a>\u00a0that his feet have worn holes through two layers of tile and an inch of plywood, down to the floorboards behind the counter.<\/p>\n

\u201cWhat do you expect? I\u2019ve spent my whole life here,\u201d he said last week at the shop, on Parsons Boulevard in Flushing, Queens, where he has worked since 1953, when he was 13.<\/p>\n

The storefront seems frozen in time. Out front, the faded, peeling signs advertise the latest merchandise \u2014 VCRs, answering machines, phonograph needles and cordless telephones; inside, the glass cabinets display miscellaneous sale items that get as modern as the Palm Pilot.<\/p>\n

But certain services are cutting-edge. For one, Mr. Guggenheim is perhaps the city\u2019s foremost seller and fixer of radio scanners, which monitor frequencies used by emergency responders like police officers and firefighters. This makes it the go-to place for spot-news photographers, tow-truck drivers, insurance adjusters and lawyers, who scan for local precinct chatter about car accidents and other incidents that might generate work.<\/p>\n

[ click to continue reading at NYTimes.com<\/a> ]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

from The New York Times Fixated on What He Fixes Julie Glassberg for The New York Times HAMS\u00a0Peter Guggenheim, perhaps New York City’s foremost seller and repairer of radio scanners, which monitor frequencies used by emergency responders like police officers and firefighters, in his shop in Flushing, Queens. By\u00a0COREY KILGANNON Peter Guggenheim has worked so […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":26,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_et_pb_use_builder":"","_et_pb_old_content":"","_et_gb_content_width":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3240","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-culture-art"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3240","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/26"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3240"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3240\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3240"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3240"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3240"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}