While not quite the equivalent of an Elvis sighting,
I was utterly surprised to see an open
Radio Shack store in the
Ashtabula Towne Square Mall
during a recent trip to Ohio. As you can see in the photo, it is a shell of a store,
with products on display only along the walls. Do you remember the days when every shopping
mall and plaza had a Radio Shack crammed full of stereos, radios, calculators, antennas,
computer accessories (and the TRS-80), toys, and of course a huge portion of the store
dedicated to electronic project
components? I had a "Battery Club" card for a couple
decades, and a current catalog was always on my bookshelf. If, as the old saying goes,
"Misery loves company," then the good folks at the Ashtabula
Radio Shack can at least take some solace in the dismal state of the entire mall, which
is like a ghost town (similar to a growing number of U.S. malls). The Radio Shack in
Erie's Millcreek Mall shut
down about five years ago (our only Sears closed last year). The store in a local plaza
finally closed about a year ago, so we have no more Radio Shacks in Erie. Here is the
My
Radio Shack Eulogy I posted last year.
Posted June 25, 2018
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