[ARC5] deathwatch for radio shack?

[D C _Mac_ Macdonald]

Interesting, indeed! Suggesting the name, though, is a long way from being a founder! 
  
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> Date: Fri, 26 Sep 2014 17:02:59 -0500
> From: ranickel at comcast.net
> To: arc5 at mailman.qth.net
> Subject: Re: [ARC5] deathwatch for radio shack?
> 
> 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.
> 
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> 73, Bob W9RAN