[Boatanchors] Re: Bill Halligan and Radio Shack

Wed Feb 22 01:19:15 EST 2006

Tobe was in the picture well before the Radio Shack store was present even 
as an idea! Bill worked for him Jack, the partnership happened later when 
Bill was offered $10,000 in 1933 to work for a different company. This was 
BIG money in the thirties, especially when one considers the united States 
was in a very deep economic depression. This was roughly triple what he was 
being paid by Tobe, by the way! There was no way Tobe could come even 
somewhat close to matching it.

Tobe knew that the reason he was successful was because of Bill Halligan, 
and if he lost Bill, his business would take a possibly fatal nosedive into 
a sea of red ink! As it was Bill who made Tobe, not the other way around. 
Tobe traveled and brought home the parts, Bill took it from there.

Now who in their right mind would turn down triple the wages and the 
potential the other job offered for advancement? A brilliant man of 
principal with the vision to see the future and recognize what was going to 
be, named William Halligan! Bill had a plan already formed in his mind. Tobe 
was buying the best transformers, heavy duty capacitors, chokes etc. from 
European manufacturers. Bill was going to need a dependable and quality 
minded supplier of these top quality components to do what he had in mind. 
He offered to stay with Tobe at his current wages, provided Tobe made him an 
equal partner plus a few other considerations. Tobe knew that his business 
was where it was because of the dynamic and personable Bill Halligan and 
trusted Bill to not cut his throat or do any dirty dasterdly deed  that 
would ruin Tobe. So the partnership came to pass.

You can learn additional details about this, and much much more, by watching 
and listening to the one of a kind live video interview of Bill Halligan, 
W9AC done by Dr. Max De Henseler, HB9RS on November 18, 1983. Available now 
as part of the Historic Halligan Radio Project I am now offering to 
non-commercial interested parties. There is also more about the Boston Radio 
Shack store on the CD that accompanies this copyrighted DVD, reproductions 
of newspaper stories and photos about the move down the street of the first 
Radio Shack store! Additionally, the Two CD Audio Set that is shipping as we 
speak contains a rare live over dinner discussion between Bill Halligan, Max 
De Henseler and the XYL of Max, the warm and loveable Renate. Recorded at a 
Cleveland, Ohio restaurant in September of 1981 with a cassette recorder 
hidden among the flowers in the table's centerpiece! So if you do not have 
your copies of these exclusive and absolutely historically priceless 
treasures, then sit upon the Hallicrafters HT-41 HF amplifier and it will 
'light your fire OM!', send you direct to the home page of the HCI web site 
to the link titled "New Stuff", then locate the link for the HHRP - Historic 
Halligan Radio Project, click Mr. Mouse and enjoy what you now see.

The store grew out of a growing concern on the part of Bill Halligan about a 
future for the constantly growing mountain of parts that kept accumulating 
on the fllor! Suggestions were made, ideas considered, a plan formulated by 
Bill Halligan and the rest is now ... Well, it is history, but you will have 
to bribe me with token bars of .999% fine gold bullion to get more details! 
Isn't Capitolism wonderful? (LOL!)

Back to the DVD production dungeon, CD creation cave and graphics generation 
facility, AKA the former home office for the "Sixth Dimension Of Magic" 
where retired chubby contented Rabbits waddle instead of hop, Petunia the 
show stealing trained stunt Skunk sulks in front of her satellite RX with 
high definition LCD display watching Animal Planet' inside her 
atmospherically secure air purification bubble and Duane's assortment of 
magical wands wait, wonder and hope to one day soon split the stage air 
asunder again with a loud concussion, streaking balls of real fire that soar 
over the heads of the audience, a puff of florescent pink smoke and a shower 
of irredescent glow in the dark confetti raining down like ... Sigh. Sorry, 
that video is not included!

----- Original Message ----- 
From: <k0ewu at juno.com>
To: <k0myw at sbcglobal.net>
Cc: <dfischer at usol.com>; <boatanchors at mailman.qth.net>
Sent: Tuesday, February 21, 2006 7:35 PM
Subject: Re: [Boatanchors] Re: Bill Halligan and Radio Shack

> Duane  (our Hallicrafters historian) has the information on the
> Boston era. I will look to see if I kept a copy of the info that I sent
> him.
> He was in partnership with Tobe Deutschmann who was importing capacitors
> from Germany at the time. Halligan was selling them - then my memory goes
> blank.
>
> Jack  K0EWU
>
>
> On Tue, 21 Feb 2006 15:10:15 -0800 (PST) Michael OBrien
> <k0myw at sbcglobal.net> writes:
>>
>> I'm relying on memory here, but I seem to recall
>> reading that young Bill Halligan worked for Tobe
>> Deutschmann at the first Radio Shack in Boston, and
>> that it was the Deutschmann family, not Mr. Halligan,
>> that founded Radio Shack. Halligan was a crackerjack
>> salesman and perhaps did, indeed, wind up at least
>> partially owning the store (I think there were more
>> than one, actually). But didn't the Deutschmanns start
>> the thing? Does anyone have the documentation at hand?
>> I'm separated from my modest library for a few days...
>>
>> 73,
>> Mike O'Brien, K0MYW
>>
>>
>>
>> --- "Duane Fischer, W8DBF" <dfischer at usol.com> wrote:
>>
>> > Here is a stretch, but the founder of Hallicrafters,
>> > Radio Shack was founded
>> > by William J. Halligan, Sr. in South Boston, MA in
>> > about 1933. However when
>> > it was purchased by whomever purchased it originally
>> > from Bill and his
>> > partner, they did continue to use the name. Does
>> > anyone have any details as
>> > to who did buy it and when it became part of Tandy?
>> > ----- Original Message ----- 
>> > From: "Joe Roth-N4ARI" <n4ari at msn.com>
>> > To: <boatanchors at mailman.qth.net>
>> > Sent: Tuesday, February 21, 2006 6:38 AM
>> > Subject: RE: [Boatanchors] RS going, going,
>> >
>> >
>> > > And these posts have what to to with boatanchors?
>> > >
>> > >
>> > > ----Original Message Follows----
>> > > From: "Grant Youngman" <nq5t at comcast.net>
>> > > To: <boatanchors at mailman.qth.net>
>> > > Subject: RE: [Boatanchors] RS  going, going,
>> > > Date: Tue, 21 Feb 2006 02:18:08 -0600
>> > >
>> > > > Local Fox news is reporting the president of
>> > Radio Shack has
>> > > ...
>> > > John
>> > >
>> > > He may be taking a fall (well deserved), but ...
>> > > Grant/NQ5T
>> > >
>> > >
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