A television shop on Main Street. A van full of tools on gravel country roads. A family pieced together with equal parts grit, faith, and Minnesota stubbornness. Before flat-screens, streaming, and throw-away gadgets, there was a time when televisions were furniture, repairs were done in the family living room, and the man who fixed your set might just stay for coffee. Prime Time invites readers into the life of Bob Wallgren-farm kid, electronics tinkerer, and small-town TV repairman-who built a business in Wadena, Minnesota, one picture tube, antenna climb, and neighborly handshake at a time. Through blizzards and boom years, potlucks and long-shot business decisions, bizarre service calls, unforgettable characters, and one life-saving house call, Bob's story reflects the everyday heroism of rural American life. In these pages, you'll ride shotgun in a Ford Econoline, climb icy rooftops, wrestle chicken feathers and early computers, mourn good men gone too soon, and laugh at moments too human to make up. It's a love letter to a community, a craft, and a vanished era-when technology was repaired, not replaced, when neighbors knew your name, and when the glow of a Zenith console meant family gathered close.

Told with humor, tenderness, and the wry wisdom of a Minnesota dad who figured most things out with patience and a pair of pliers, Prime Time celebrates the people and places who made the rural Midwest home. A story about making a living-and making a life-in the heart of small-town America.