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Old 09-04-2015, 01:44 AM   #844
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Originally Posted by GtrsRGr8 View Post
Lafayette sounded kewl. I don't remember hearing about it. I didn't live far enough north, I guess. I guess every part of the country, back in the day, had some company or two that filled the needs. With Radio Shack being headquartered in Fort Worth, I suppose that it tended to add new stores out first from the Dallas-Fort Worth area. I was considerably closer, in the places that I lived in then (all deep South), to Ft. Worth than to New York.

One company that I do remember (and, boy, I've haven't thought about this in years) is a company called Allied Electronics. In the places that I lived, at least, it was a mail order business only. I loved thumbing through their catalogs. It seemed like they had everything electronic.
You might find interesting the following, linked Wikipedia articles or lists, and their linked entries about:
  • The term "radio shack", after which the RadioShack chain was named.
  • The "Tandy Corporation" section of the above-linked RadioShack article, which states:
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    In 1970, Tandy Corporation bought Allied Radio (both retail and industrial divisions), merging the brands into Allied Radio Shack and closing duplicate locations. After a 1973 federal government review, the company sold off the few remaining Allied retail stores and resumed using the Radio Shack name. Allied Electronics, the firm's industrial component operation, continued as a Tandy division until it was sold to Spartan Manufacturing in 1981.[13]
  • The list of consumer electronics retail companies of the United States
  • The list of electronics districts

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