This week’s Surfin’ looks back on radio and electronic history via vintage Radio Shack catalogs.
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Radio Shack catalogs are neat, but the real action was in the big fat ALLIED /RADIO SHACK catalogs! When the store opened in our area in 1971, we got a big fat Allied catalog. That was the one that had all the cool ham gear I could drool over and never could afford any of it. Well, as I recall it was called Allied Radio Shack at that time. Eventually things changed and ham gear came and went from the products available. But I think I wore out that catalog pretty quickly. Got a 1970 Allied catalog at Dayton a few years ago. Almost exactly like the 71 version I guess. Still cool to look at.
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I remember a lot of those catalogs. My parents used to own a franchise store in Kentucky for a little over 20 years. They are first listed in the 1974 catalog. I always remember getting the first boxes of the catalogs in each year and how everyone wanted to grab one and start looking through it to see what new was coming :)
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