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Catherine Shanahan, owner of Shanahan Sound & Electronics, a family-owned business in Lowell, with a display of classic microphones collected over the years. Catherine Shanahan, owner of Shanahan Sound & Electronics, a family-owned business in Lowell, with a display of classic microphones collected over the years. (DAVID KAMERMAN/GLOBE STAFF)
By Davis Bushnell
Globe Correspondent / September 6, 2007

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In 1951, at the dawn of the television era, Walter Shanahan opened a small radio and TV sales and service shop in the Highlands section of Lowell. (Full article: 684 words)

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