Really interesting, Bob, Are you in the Boston area? I am in Watertown. I just used google street view to see what is at 730 Comm ave today and it is a CVS. Sean On Sat, Mar 8, 2014 at 9:53 AM, rchadwic wrote: > Re:[OT:] Radio Shack closing 1100 stores. > source=3D On an entirely almost unrelated aspect of this particular threa= d, I > can remember when I was a young squirt in the late 50s, the original Radi= o > Shack was located at 730 Commonwealth Avenue in Boston, Mass. It had no > satellite stores, and dealt mostly with ham radio related stuff. > > I came back from overseas in 1967, and discovered that the Shack had gone > national and was concentrating on experimenters; lots of parts and old > surplus PCBs good for parts; not much ham stuff at all. > > Came back from overseas again in 1974 and found Radio shack was mostly > cheap > imported electronic gadgets and a few components. > > Now, mostly cell phones, but still a rather useful assortment of electron= ic > (Arduino stuff; common parts). > > Interesting metamorphosis. Also, I didnt realize I was getting that > old...... > Bob Chadwick > PICList Lurker since 1997 > > > http://www.piclist.com/member/108.208.58.199 > PIC/PICList FAQ: http://www.piclist.com > > > > -- > http://www.piclist.com/techref/piclist PIC/SX FAQ & list archive > View/change your membership options at > http://mailman.mit.edu/mailman/listinfo/piclist > --=20 http://www.piclist.com/techref/piclist PIC/SX FAQ & list archive View/change your membership options at http://mailman.mit.edu/mailman/listinfo/piclist .