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In reply to the discussion: Great Memories: What Happened to RadioShack? The Store That Taught America How to Build Things [View all]StarryNite
(12,097 posts)24. My son worked at a RadioShack for years.
Before most people had ever heard of LED therapy he came home from work one day with some light emitting diodes. A doctor had been in the store to buy some to make LED therapy devices. He told my son about it. So my son built some small ones for family members. The devices were amazing and helped me with a neck issue I had suffered with for months when nothing else I tried worked. It helped my mom with a shoulder injury that had prevented her from raising her arm to even reach into the kitchen cupboards. Ahhh the good old days of RadioShack.
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Great Memories: What Happened to RadioShack? The Store That Taught America How to Build Things [View all]
LiberalArkie
21 hrs ago
OP
Lafayette Electronics closed its doors even earlier -- corp. mismanagement.
eppur_se_muova
20 hrs ago
#2
Back in those days, you could go in there with a thing you needed to replace,
House of Roberts
20 hrs ago
#3
My husband still misses that store. He could get components for his various projects.
Ritabert
20 hrs ago
#5
Find your nearest Repair Cafe, a non-profit which can work on anything from broken zippers
Wonder Why
18 hrs ago
#18
I know because I am one of the volunteers. However, I'm on indefinite hiatus until I have my leg back.
Wonder Why
10 hrs ago
#36
Laz used to manage a Radio Shack in a little rural strip mall near a military base.
haele
18 hrs ago
#17
We purchased our first computer, the TRS 80 from Radio Shackwhen our son was 7 or 8 yrs old.
scarletlib
18 hrs ago
#19
The video is AI-generated and narrated, on a channel that's almost completely AI, adding about one AI video
highplainsdem
7 hrs ago
#41
If I had a time machine I would go back to the 70's and buy up all the vari-loop coils I could get my hands on
yaesu
15 hrs ago
#29
I miss stores like RadioShack, and this makes me feel a certain way. Mostly nostalgia.
Oneironaut
15 hrs ago
#30
A very happy memory is buying a breadboard, some LEDs and other components for my son when he was in elementary school.
NNadir
15 hrs ago
#32
It's the tech bro capitalist philosophy -- if people are buying that crap, they will sell it.
hunter
4 hrs ago
#44
Anyone remember when they gave a 10% discount to shareholders and lots of people, including yours truly,
Wonder Why
10 hrs ago
#37