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# Shaw LocalNews • Sports • eNewspapers • The ScenePremium# From Atari to Zenith: Snowtronics repair shop is one of downtown Rock Falls' longest running businessesDecember 12, 2020 at 9:00 pm CST:quality(70)/cloudfront-us-east-1.images.arcpublishing.com/sandbox.shawmedia/O5PBB6LYWU4ZAMA2ZLMK2CIS6U.jpg)Grant Snow works on circuit board in the work area at Snowtronics in downtown Rock Falls. "You have to have that technical experience and the knowledge he has," wife Denise said. "It's not just take a board out and put a board back in. You have to have the components. It's a technical field that requires steady hands." (Michael Krabbenhoeft)hen Grant and Denise Snow opened up their downtown Rock Falls electronics business in 1987, towering home stereos took up a chunk of people’s living room walls.Nearly 35 years later, the sounds of popular music can be heard on devices you can tuck into your ear.Changes in technology have been exponential, but the business philosophy at Snowtronics has remained the same through the years. Grant, who lends the family name to Snowtronics, can fix electronics big or small.Taking care of the customer’s devices as if they were his own has kept the trust going all these years, Grant said.“We try to do right for the people that come in through the door,” he said. “We’re here because the consumers come through my door. I’m here because people need me here.”“When it gets back to their home, I want them to get years of use out of it, not days.”Televisions? Snow can fix that. Car stereos? Yep. Cell phones? You betcha. That dusty Nintendo Entertainment System and the zapper that’s needed to play Duck Hunt for the first time in 30 years? He can bring life back to those, too, and just about anything else that isn’t too far gone.There aren’t very many like him around these days.“We get people coming in from all over the place because they can’t find anybody,” Grant said.