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 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.
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