7 Jun
2002
7 Jun
'02
1:06 p.m.
on 6/7/02 5:06 PM, Dave Woodman at dave(a)naffnet.org.uk wrote:
Here in the UK we called them Tandy:- notice the tense
used, for Tandy went
bust - even though here you could have been legitimately offered 'chips with
that...'
They recently renamed the company RadioShack, officially. AFAIK, it's still
basically the same company, it's just called RadioShack instead of Tandy
Corp., with RS being a subsidiary. There's still Tandy Wire and Cable, and
maybe a few other divisions that still bear the Tandy name. And everyone in
Fort Worth still calls them Tandy, mostly because almost half of the people
around here have worked for Tandy at one time or another.
The last time I was in the Tandy Towers, they had replaced the Tandy Corp.
logo with a RadioShack Corporation sign. I must, say, pretty spiffy. Good or
bad, they still took the ice skating place out of the Tandy Center downtown.
And they're going to abandon the Tandy Subway, when they sell the Tandy
Center. Now everyone will have no choice but to fight for a parking space
downtown.
--
Owen Robertson