"It's dead, Jim."

[Phil]

I thought you were going to say that you went back to the shop the next day and it was no longer there - and the locals said that it never had been - woooooo!

Phil M1GWZ



On 13 Dec 2014, at 15:55, Michael O'Dell wrote:

> Once upon a time I was in Amsterdam and I discovered that I the fuses
> in my CPAP machine had died somewhere between Dulles and Schipol
> over the Atlantic. The concierge in the hotel pointed me to an electronics
> shop within easy walking distance, so I took the fuses and set out.
> 
> I found the place - a modest storefront in a building older than the US.
> I went inside and was immediately struck by the variety of parts stuffed
> into this shop. Ceiling to floor, it was like all the really useful stuff out
> of an old B&A or Allied catalog, somehow shoveled in. The proprietor
> was amused by my surprise, but when I have him the fuses, he
> went directly over to a spot and pulled a poly bag off a hanger. 
> He handed it to me and they were an exact match. I paid the gentleman
> and we chatted for a few more minutes. I told him that shops like his
> had long-since disappeared except in very rare cases in the US and
> all we had was Radio Shack stores. He essentially offered his sympathies.
> 
> I didn’t ask how the shop did enough business to pay the rent for a 
> great storefront like he had. Then again, the shop could have been
> in his family for two centuries. 
> 
> 	-mo
> 
> 
> 
> On Dec 13, 2014, at 7:20 AM, Phil <philmt59 at aol.com> wrote:
> 
>> 
>> On 13 Dec 2014, at 12:13, Chip Fetrow wrote:
>> 
>>> Did Radio Shack EVER exist in the UK?  I don’t think so.  I believe they were Tandy stores.
>>> 
>>> —chip
>> 
>> What's in a name?
>> 
>> "RadioShack Corporation (formerly Tandy Corporation) is an American franchise of electronics retail stores in the United States, as well as parts of Europe, South America and Africa."
>> 
>> Nevertheless, pedantry is important.  :-)
>> 
>> Phil M1GWZ
>> 
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