Allison writes:
<Does anyone remember a similar electronics store
called "Lafayette"? They
...
They were nothing like TANDY.
...
They were long gone by '79.
Correct...nothing like *Tandy*, but quite similar to Radio Shack ...
perhaps with a better mail order line, IIRC and a bit more oriented
towards parts and radio. The last one I saw was in Sunnyvale/Santa
Clara (here in the Bay Area) around 1980/1981.