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Everyone enjoys having the latest gadgets and that holds true for electronics. New products are coming out all the time and sometimes that can bring trouble for some retailers. Over the years there have been a lot electronic stores that have come and gone. In this video we will have a look back at some electronic stores no longer around!

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39 thoughts on “Electronic Stores No Longer Around!

  1. I vaguely remember Radio Shack, Circuit City, and H H Gregg – whixh were acrually in the same spot

    Crazy Eddie's was menioned in the season 2 Christmas episode of Growing Pains as the electronics store having a holiday "blow out sale" on Christmas Eve and Mike really wants a CD player for Christmas, which i dont know if he fot it or not when the kids learn an important lesson about material possessions when Ben brings home a girl living on the street for the holiday.

  2. In my New York/ New Jersey area we had circuit city, crazy Eddie, compusa, the wiz, topsy, 6th Avenue electronics, harvey, fry’s. Now inky have Best Buy and PC Richard’s

  3. Radio shack was great for getting kids interested in science and electronics. They also had heath kits where you could build TV’s. My parents bought in early 70’s a doorbell you could program. So we had the theme from “ the Godfather.” The side door had four beats and the front one had 12 beats.

  4. You claim Incredible Universe wsa owned by Tandy. I never heard of them. Radio Shack was owned by Tandy, the leather goods business. I know this because I worked at Radio Shack, but you failed to mention this fact.

  5. Radio Shack was great for model railroaders. I think the last thing I bought at RS before our local store closed was a soldering iron on a Sunday afternoon. I was in the middle of a project and mine died. Fortunately, they still had one left. I also liked the little bottles of Archer super glue. I used to joke that my railroad was held together with RS solder and super glue and wired with their telephone line. I also bought a few relays, but I quickly found other sources (like All Electronics Corp) where I could get enough of them to actually build something without completely breaking the bank. I just buy everything online now, but I miss Radio Shack.

  6. I miss Radio Shack. It was the only local store where you could go and pick up a resistor or capacitor in an emergency or for a project. I built a lot of custom speakers, back in the day, using "Realistic" (actually made by Fisher Electronics) drivers. Radio Shack was a great electronics hobbyist store at its peak. We had 2 Radio Shacks in town. One on the mall, and one down town. You could see the demise of Radio Shack coming when all they started carrying was cell phones and remote control cars. They also started hiring people that new nothing about electronics. I also remeber getting those "free" batteries at Radio Shack after purchasing a set amount of batteries over time. Good times! 😊

  7. I saw a Crazy Eddie ad on WOR that I received in Montgomery, AL. I ordered a new JVC 5.1 surround sound stereo. I paid 247.00 and that included shipping. I went to circuit city and asked them if they had this model and they said no but when it comes in, it will cost 560.00. I purchased speaker wire and when I was checking out. The sales man asked me why I asked about the JVC model. I told him, I received it yesterday and am now hooking it up and I told him what I paid. He was surprised.

  8. Hands down, TRS was "the" electronics store. At one point there were nearly as many Radio Shack stores as there were McDonalds. Things went south when they tried to compete with big box stores. They should have stuck with their base and doubled down on catering to the hobbyist market. They would not be as large, but they'd probably still be around.

  9. Of course RadioShack was the most fun to walk into I remember Highland electronic store on camp Bowie boulevard fort Worth. I also enjoyed going to McDuff's and Federated. Macduff was close to the old Carswell Air Force Base and so was Federated.

  10. I worked for the franchise of Lafayette radio in Metro Detroit… but bailed during the bankruptcy like a rat from a sinking ship, I hung on as long as I could and was saddened by their demise caused by an FCC ruling involving retailers no longer able to sell 23 Channel CB just after the chain bought millions of dollars worth. (40 Channel or nothing and the chain couldn't recover) That franchise was operated by some really nice people, and the management team at corporate/regional were terrific . Moved to Fretter and did the same thing , along the way the company went public and15 years later when the kids and company execs realized the real estate was more valuable than running a company…they and their CEO killed the retailer and put lots of people out of work. . Lafayette was fun in the late 70's , lots of changes in the technology , Fretter was interesting in the 80's where it often snowed in the backrooms.

  11. In SoCal, there was a chain called Fry's Electronics. They were huge stores and each had a theme (Space, Rome, etc) till the very end as many of the stores had closed and the remaining stores (bare of merchandise) were closing, the employees maintained they were staying open, and just awaiting shipments and re-supply. In Los Angeles (Downtown area) we also had a "Crazy" guy. He called himself Crazy Gideon. Most of his merch was refurb, but most remember the absolutley crazy outrageous late night TV commercials they had. Crazy Gideons is long gone.

  12. Nothing was mentioned about the murder that happened at the Beloit Plaza in Beloit Wisc on February 2, 1981 where an employeed and the manager were both murdered by Raymond Lee Stewart. He was loose for awhile and latter found and arrested in Rockford Ill. He murdered a totatl of six people during a weeks time. I was living on Liberty Ave at the time just across the river and a few streets over when I saw while carrying one daughter and holding anothers hand, the police stop a vehicle and grab the occupants out, boy I grabbed the one daughters hand harder and zipped up the street and into my home a half a block away. Scary but that happening has never been forgotten.

  13. Not just Radio Shack, but also Locally Owned Electronics Stores, that were more intense than Radio Shack. I miss Mark’s Electronics and another one that was a few miles away. I built switches that went inside the electrical box, on my outside lights. Could turn the lights on via my garage remote. Also had an electronic lock, that worked off of the remote. Repaired it several times with their help.

  14. Montgomery Wards. Although not a dedicated electronic store, it was huge at one time. Would love to see a video including this mega store of its time.

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