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Article #1694Re: OT but fun - 1939 Radio Shack catalog
From: ChrisCoaster
Date: Sat, 13 Dec 2008 21:22
Date: Sat, 13 Dec 2008 21:22
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On Dec 11, 4:00 am, Soundhaspriority <nowh...@nowhere.com> wrote: > <sshankSTRIKET...@tds.net> wrote in message > > Xns9B70C1104A486sshanktds...@216.196.97.131 > > > This is a hoot. > > >http://www.radioshackcatalogs.com/catalogs/1939/ > > I cried myself to sleep for weeks after my local Radio Shack closed last > year. While I rarely bought anything, the clerks taught me how to curse in > Pakistani. And I could get lots of catalogs by giving them a different name > every time I was there. I get Radio Shack catalogs by the hundreds. > > Now I have to content myself with an ice cream from my Baskin Robbins (I got > Bwian fired from this one, too) and the grocery store. > > "I don't really have a career, it's a very gnawing thing" > > Robert Morein > (310) 237-6511 > (215) 646-4894 ____________________ That site is a SCREAM! ANYONE who wants to know what audio equipment is SUPPOSED to look like should browse any catalog from the late 70s - early 80s. That goes for boomboxes as well as home components. Keep up the good work maintaining it and filling in the missing years. -CC
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X-Google-Thread: 10cf58,f4c037e36d31c213 X-Google-Thread: 108c0a,7d8d0d14b96b0bb9 X-Google-Thread: fb1f8,7d8d0d14b96b0bb9 X-Google-Thread: 104a1f,7d8d0d14b96b0bb9 X-Google-Attributes: gid10cf58,gid108c0a,gidfb1f8,gid104a1f,domainid0,public,usenet X-Google-Language: ENGLISH,ASCII Path: arc1-ca.pugleaf.net!g2news2.google.com!postnews.google.com!e24g2000vbe.googlegroups.com!not-for-mail From: ChrisCoaster <ckozicki@snet.net> Newsgroups: rec.audio.pro,aus.hi-fi,rec.audio.tech,rec.arts.movies.production.sound Subject: Re: OT but fun - 1939 Radio Shack catalog Date: Sat, 13 Dec 2008 13:22:25 -0800 (PST) Organization: http://groups.google.com Lines: 35 Message-ID: <84d0e4e7-a4b1-4b21-a112-61a61a751452@e24g2000vbe.googlegroups.com> References: <Xns9B70C1104A486sshanktdsnet@216.196.97.131> <C56713C6.B85D3%nowhere@nowhere.com> NNTP-Posting-Host: 69.120.88.241 Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable X-Trace: posting.google.com 1229203345 1998 127.0.0.1 (13 Dec 2008 21:22:25 GMT) X-Complaints-To: groups-abuse@google.com NNTP-Posting-Date: Sat, 13 Dec 2008 21:22:25 +0000 (UTC) Complaints-To: groups-abuse@google.com Injection-Info: e24g2000vbe.googlegroups.com; posting-host=69.120.88.241; posting-account=-80VzwgAAAD-UsUoCaRjZ0wpJryvpsHA User-Agent: G2/1.0 X-HTTP-UserAgent: Mozilla/4.0 (compatible; MSIE 7.0; Windows NT 6.0; SLCC1; .NET CLR 2.0.50727; Media Center PC 5.0; .NET CLR 3.0.04506),gzip(gfe),gzip(gfe)