[BC] electronic shops

[Bruce Doerle]

You don't have to wonder why there are very few electronics shops.  Look at Amateur radio, the numbers are dwindling.  Very few people build anything anymore, it is so cheap to buy gear and throw it away when it doesn't work any longer for the newer model with the latest gimmicks.  Most of the young folks that would have gone into radio (amatuer or professional) have instead gone into computer technology where it is a throw-away technology that has a short life of about three years.  Nobody gets their VCR or TV fixed because it is too expensive.  Hence there is little need for the store that caters in spare parts or stuff for the tinkers.

Things change.  I use to go to the local Lafayette Electronics stores until they closed and down onto Arch Street in Philly when I was a kid.  But none of these places remain.  Thank God for Skycraft here in Orlando; it has saved my neck many times, but I know that many of you don't have a local store to draw on.  I found that Newark electronics has been good in getting parts and I have usedd All Electronics for things like fuse bulbs for the older electronic HiFi amps.

We just have to scrounge a bit harder.


>>> dpuopolo at usa.net 07/03/05 12:49 PM >>>
Yeah, but All used to have a store on Vermont that closed early last year.

-D


------ Original Message ------
Received: Sun, 03 Jul 2005 09:29:07 AM PDT
From: charles hobbs <cph1776 at yahoo.com>
To: broadcast at radiolists.net
Subject: [BC] electronic shops


> >WHERE HAVE ALL THE LOCAL ELECTRONIC SHOPS HAVE
> GONE?????
> 

The few remaining where I live (San Fernando Valley)
mostly sell stuff related to car stereo/car alarm/car
bling-bling installation; resistors and capacitors
play second fiddle....

On the other hand, All Electronics (on Kester in Van
Nuys) still seems to have a good selection of
components.

Fry's Electronics has an aisle of components....

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