[ARC5] deathwatch for radio shack?

[Robert Nickels]

On 9/26/2014 3:23 PM, D C _Mac_ Macdonald wrote:
> I suppose it is possible that Bill Halligan might have had something to do with founding of Radio Shack, but I seriously doubt it.
It's not hard to discover Halligan's role in Radio Shack - the following 
is from http://www.radioshackcatalogs.com/history.html

The First Radio Shack Store

Two years later (1921) and half a continent away, two London-born 
Bostonian brothers, Theodore and Milton Deutschmann, opened a one-store 
retail and mail-order operation in the heart of downtown Boston. These 
young immigrant brothers wanted to provide amateur and ham radio 
equipment to the public; much of it was leftover Army gear. At the time, 
this radio technology was cutting-edge and the field was wide open. To 
pursue their interests, the brothers opened a retail store (a block from 
the site of the Boston Massacre). William Halligan, one of Deutschmann's 
first employees and later the founder of Hallicrafters, suggested the 
name, “Radio Shack”. They chose the name, "Radio Shack," which was a 
term for the room that housed a ship's radio equipment.

The brothers thought the name was fitting since their store would supply 
the equipment for ship’s radio officers, as well as ham radio operators.

Beginning in 1921, Radio Shack would grow to a handful of stores 
clustered in the Northeast, and become a leading electronics mail-order 
distributor to hobbyists. This is how it would remain until the company 
and a young Texan named Charles Tandy crossed paths four decades later.

--

73, Bob W9RAN