Page from a 1965 Analog Sci-Fi magazine - back when there was still wonder in the world.
Posted on 12/04/2014 6:59:29 PM PST by SamAdams76
Several generations of home electronics hobbyists, ham radio enthusiasts and computer nerds spent their growth-spurt years haunting their local RadioShack stores. They can't be happy about the company's long slide toward irrelevance and its looming disappearance as a feature of the retail landscape.
The chain joined the quixotic rush by American retailers to open on Thanksgiving Day, but was one of the very few outside the grocery business to be open as early as 8 a.m. A surer sign of management desperation is hard to conceive--or of management cluelessness, for that matter.
(Excerpt) Read more at latimes.com ...
“The worst smelling man I ever met in my life worked at RadioShack.”
Did you ever pick up a LA Times? It is a different kind of smell but stinks just as bad. I am not defending Radio Shack, but a dying liberal rag trashing RS seems kind of odd.
There is neat website that has all the old radioshack catalogs from long ago. Just google radioshack catalog. Looking through those catalogs is a great way to remember why radio used to be such a great store.
Page from a 1965 Analog Sci-Fi magazine - back when there was still wonder in the world.
>Well, RS can go the way of Lafayette Radio.
Allied Radio was another in the HI-FI / Stereo kit market.
I would go there with my Dad right before they closed for the night. We were always looking for Vacuum tubes. They rarely had the ones we needed. We used to call it Radio Shlock.
I like going in there because of those memories. I don’t care how much the stuff costs, I never buy much there larger than a connector or a battery.
For a while they sold Tandy Computers. Ha ha ha. I saw a raspberry Pi in there. I think you can get them on line for about $35. This one came with a handbook and some wires and was going for about $125. ha ha ha....
I miss their “150 in 1” electronics kits from “Science Fair.” I’d do anything to score an Astronaut-8 multiband radio.
I like it better than Best Buy. I once asked a clerk at Best Buy if he thought we actually went to the moon.
He avoided answering the question.
I don’t know if he thought we didn’t or if he thought I was an idiot or both.
Once Radio Shack got away from being an electronics supplier to those who were amateur amd professional electronic technicians, or stereophiles, where there were no such true stores of that kind, they defeated themselves.
Gone are the times of ham radio bits and pieces.
Gone are all the assorted parts to create your own audio speakers.
Gone are the knowledgeable sales people that could ‘read a resistor or capacitor’, to give you the correct replacement.
I remember where I worked at one place, when Phil Collins made it to the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame, we all celebrated with a cake. B-) He’s one of my faves too.
Remember when Arthur Fiedler, the famous conductor, hawked their stereo line?
Phil Collins,
smelly salesmen and
end of and Era.
I love This Bar!
I bought my first decent stereo from RS in 1977. I recall buying CB type radios and a police radio scanner there.
And a AC/DC multimeter.
But electrics have changed dramatically in the past few decades as has the way stuff is sold.
I’ve been using them for quite a while. Also sending the link to my friends asking where to look for cables and such.
Monoprice has fast shipping and very low prices. If i’m not mistaken, Amazon is their parent company.
Sure glad Paul McCartney replaced 'Scrambled Eggs' with 'Yesterday'.
You have to read what’s inside the bill before you really like it. Welcome to Obamacare nation.
Pray America is waking
Elenco made those kits for RS and they STILL make them:
http://www.elenco.com/product/productdetails/project_labs=NTQ=/500-in-1_electronic_project_lab=Mjg3
Great site. I'm drooling over the components.
I just bought an optical cable from Radio Shack for my sound bar.
It costs about a third of what I paid.
I guess the advantage is I wanted it NOW, instead of a few days in the mail.
And it's "Radio Shack quality".
Which isn't that great.
I'm so old I was in the Radio Shack "battery club", where you got a card punched and after 10 batteries purchased you got two free ones.
Never mind that the batteries were terrible.
I just liked the "free" aspect.
They could reposition themselves selling homemade bomb components to terrorists.
No, but I changed the word in my own version to "Estupido" and changed the chorus to:
Just say a word....ohhhhhh
Estu-stu-stupidohhhh.
Never was that impressed with Phil Collins.
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