Radio Shack

[Rich-n-Texas]

I think they used to put those things inside jukeboxes didn't they?

[BRANDONH]

I think they used to put those things inside jukeboxes didn't they?

yeah pretty sure they did but I have never seen a stand alone unit like it before.

[emaidel]

What a wonderfully nostalgic post, BRANDONH. As a 14-year veteran of Lafayette Radio (Radio Shack's biggest competitor at the time), I can really appreciate "flipping' through an old catalog's pages. Somewhere in a box in my garage are several old Lafayette catalogs, which people all but killed each other for every fall when the latest one came out. The last time I looked through one, I was frankly amazed at the advertising hyperbole for some really lousy stuff! And Lafayette, at the time, had a far better image, and better stocked and staffed retail stores. Then it all collapsed...

[freddievortex1]

What a wonderfully nostalgic post, BRANDONH. As a 14-year veteran of Lafayette Radio (Radio Shack's biggest competitor at the time), I can really appreciate "flipping' through an old catalog's pages. Somewhere in a box in my garage are several old Lafayette catalogs, which people all but killed each other for every fall when the latest one came out. The last time I looked through one, I was frankly amazed at the advertising hyperbole for some really lousy stuff! And Lafayette, at the time, had a far better image, and better stocked and staffed retail stores. Then it all collapsed...

Speaking of vintage equipment, does anyone know where I could find a Lafayette Radio LR-4000(A) quadrafonic reciever? It was second only to Sony's. I worked at Lafayette Radio in Natick,MA. I loved listening to Santana's Abraxis quad lp.Lafayette Radio was large because it also sold electronic parts to industries (resistors, capacitors, etc) in volume. The audio store section carried all kinds of brands not just their own. Once the corporation was bought out, it was broken up and sold off (sound familar).

[thekid]

Speaking of vintage equipment, does anyone know where I could find a Lafayette Radio LR-4000(A) quadrafonic reciever? It was second only to Sony's. I worked at Lafayette Radio in Natick,MA. I loved listening to Santana's Abraxis quad lp.Lafayette Radio was large because it also sold electronic parts to industries (resistors, capacitors, etc) in volume. The audio store section carried all kinds of brands not just their own. Once the corporation was bought out, it was broken up and sold off (sound familar).

I don't have a Lafayette quad but I do have a Gladding which is a re-badged LR from what I could find out. interesting little unit until the power died a couple of months back. I still have hopes of bringing it back from the dead when I have more money than common sense.