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[Mike Monte]

I took my wife for a ride to Newport, RI today...60 degrees...gotta take advantage of such a warm temperature in February.
Driving down a main thoroughfare I noticed a Radio Shack with a "40% off everything" sign on the window.

Of course, I stopped...

The store was pretty well stocked.  The manager told me that the 40% off sign went up earlier this week..  I asked him if that particular store was going to close and he said that he hadn't heard that it would...

I know of two closed Radio Shacks in my area that started the process with a 40% off sale.

I went to the "adapter wall" and picked up a few odds/ends (mostly adapters that I only have "one of"). 

It looks like down the road everything will have to be mail-ordered.....a sign of the times, I guess.

[David Allred]

I took my wife for a ride to Newport, RI today...60 degrees...gotta take advantage of such a warm temperature in February.
Driving down a main thoroughfare I noticed a Radio Shack with a "40% off everything" sign on the window.

Of course, I stopped...

The store was pretty well stocked.  The manager told me that the 40% off sign went up earlier this week..  I asked him if that particular store was going to close and he said that he hadn't heard that it would...

I know of two closed Radio Shacks in my area that started the process with a 40% off sale.

I went to the "adapter wall" and picked up a few odds/ends (mostly adapters that I only have "one of"). 

It looks like down the road everything will have to be mail-ordered.....a sign of the times, I guess.

When the Shack closes in my area, it will be a sad day.  Not that I buy a lot there, but the comfort of knowing that it was there if I needed a resistor or other do-dad, it was there.  Even with a 1000% mark-up.

[Craig Leerman]

My favorite store growing up in Maryland were Lafeyette, Radio Shack and Bainsville Electronics. sadly I heard Bainsville closed its doors this past year and Lafayette went out of business when I was a young sound guy. I'm not sure which was more fun, leafing through the catalogs getting ideas for building things or walking through the stores getting ideas for building things.

A few years ago most of the Radio Shacks closed in Las Vegas where I had been based. There are a few still open in Reno where I live now but they are basically phone store that also sell some drones and home electronics, not the parts stores that my dad and I would go to every month for our free batteries on our "Battery of the Month club cards" 

Time marches on I guess

Craig

[Dave Garoutte]

We still have a GREAT electronics store in downtown San Rafael (SF Bay area).
Electronics Plus.  Geek heaven.
BTW the local Radio Shacks are mostly phone and stereo stores around here, not for the hobbyist.

[Douglas R. Allen]

I really miss Heathkit. Building a shortwave receiver or basic stereo was fun and they had lots of "stuff" to buy if needed. Those days are gone...

Doug

[Woody Nuss]

Amazingly, my former home town's radio supply shack is still in business after 70 years!. Loved this place growing up...

http://www.acksupply.com/

[Scott Holtzman]

Amazingly, my former home town's radio supply shack is still in business after 70 years!. Loved this place growing up...

http://www.acksupply.com/

Woody Ack is a friggin' legend.  In the 80's I came up a couple of times to take call for Gencall (early  paging phone operator in Atlanta) and we could pick up anything short of an Eniac output tube at Ack in a pinch.


Now I want to go to Bones and get a steak.

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