"Stormin Mormon" wrote:

When I was a kid, a RS opened within bicycle distance of me. I loved
that store, and shopped there often. Anyone remember the battery of
the month cards?

I bought a cell phone with a $40 rebate. The rebate never arrived. I
wrote, and followed up, and still no rebate. Over the years, I've
spent buckets of money at RS, but not any more. I havn't been in a RS
in a couple years. They lost my trade.

When I need a diode or cable today instead of tomorrow, I visit the place. Otherwise I
use Newark or Digikey and next day air. The last time I visited, I needed a 25A full wave
bridge to repair a back gage in a press brake.

Anyone remember Lafayette Radio? Link below before my time.

http://www.radiomuseum.org/forum/laf...amed_1933.html

Wes
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On 2010-08-05, Wes wrote:

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Anyone remember Lafayette Radio? Link below before my time.

http://www.radiomuseum.org/forum/laf...amed_1933.html

Yep! My first experience with them was about 1960 in the Boston
area. I still have a nice (Japanese made) log-log slide rule from them
from that period.

And my last was about 1977 or a bit after that, in the
Washington DC area.

During that period, my saying was "Lafayette mean Japanese".
Apparently from the earlier catalogs, that was not always the case. :-)

Enjoy,
DoN.

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"DoN. Nichols" wrote:

On 2010-08-05, Wes wrote:

[ ... ]

Anyone remember Lafayette Radio? Link below before my time.

http://www.radiomuseum.org/forum/laf...amed_1933.html

Yep! My first experience with them was about 1960 in the Boston
area. I still have a nice (Japanese made) log-log slide rule from them
from that period.

And my last was about 1977 or a bit after that, in the
Washington DC area.

During that period, my saying was "Lafayette mean Japanese".
Apparently from the earlier catalogs, that was not always the case. :-)


My last order to Lafayette was in in the late '60s. I ordered some
transistors and 6 12" * 18" sheets of single sided phenolic PC boards.
A 6"*6"*6" box arrived, and the invoice was marked "Shipped complete".
They refused to admit they had short shipped, so I sent all my future
orders to Allied or Digikey. I laughed when they went bankrupt a few
years later.

On Thu, 05 Aug 2010 18:46:27 -0400, Wes
wrote:

"Stormin Mormon" wrote:

When I was a kid, a RS opened within bicycle distance of me. I loved
that store, and shopped there often. Anyone remember the battery of
the month cards?

I bought a cell phone with a $40 rebate. The rebate never arrived. I
wrote, and followed up, and still no rebate. Over the years, I've
spent buckets of money at RS, but not any more. I havn't been in a RS
in a couple years. They lost my trade.

When I need a diode or cable today instead of tomorrow, I visit the place. Otherwise I
use Newark or Digikey and next day air. The last time I visited, I needed a 25A full wave
bridge to repair a back gage in a press brake.

Anyone remember Lafayette Radio? Link below before my time.


My TV (anyone still call 'em that?) still feeds my very first stereo
system - a Lafayette receiver with the original speakers (LR44?).
Works quite well, although I did have to do some work on the controls.
The BSR turntable is long gone, though.

Circa 1971 (ish).

(My TV resides in the bedroom, so it needed its own system.)

Joe



http://www.radiomuseum.org/forum/laf...amed_1933.html

Wes

On Aug 5, 4:46*pm, Wes wrote:

Anyone remember Lafayette Radio? *Link below before my time.

http://www.radiomuseum.org/forum/laf...g_no_53_named_...

Wes
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Sure, used to do a LOT of business with them. Were originally radio/
TV parts and secondarily hobbiest/ham stuff. Had some of the first
inexpensive ham and CB gear on the market. They started opening local
stores ala Radio Shack in the early '70s, carried about the same type
of stuff except better. Had one in the college town. Kind of dried
up and blew away in the mid '70s, about when ham started going to
appliance-operators and consumer electronic repair started dying with
the switch to solid-state gear. No battery card, though.

Stan