"It's dead, Jim."

[Howard Cunningham]

Hi

Radio Shack. Where the slogan was: "You have questions? We have blank stares."

WD5DBC

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-----Original Message-----
From: Phil [philmt59 at aol.com]
Received: Saturday, 13 Dec 2014, 13:18
To: Tacos AMRAD [tacos at amrad.org]
Subject: Re: "It's dead, Jim."

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<mailto: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<http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tandy_Corporation>) is an American<http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/United_States> franchise of electronics retail stores in the United States<http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/United_States>, as well as parts of Europe, South America and Africa."

Nevertheless, pedantry is important.  :-)

Phil M1GWZ

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