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Those bright shirts were definitely that era. Which store is this? Incredible Universe, The Wiz, Fry’s?
by yardie 3y ago
Those bright shirts were definitely that era. Which store is this? Incredible Universe, The Wiz, Fry’s?
- metadat 3y agoMy first guess is this could be Fry's store #3 in Palo Alto located on Portage Ave (closed in late 2019 [0]), but from the footage it's hard to be certain. The shelving layout looks like the components section, which was behind the checkout area of the store. This was where you could buy discrete computer parts like motherboards, CPUs, memory, HDDs, cases, PSUs, network switches and cabling, oscilloscopes, soldering irons, heat shrink tubing, and tiny parts like capacitors and voltage regulators. Components was adjacent to the telephone and Appliances departments. Where else in Palo Alto was there ever so much variety of inventory for sale? The Radio Shack in Downtown was tiny, and I don't recall Egghead computers in Menlo Park ever having even near that much inventory, but I was quite young at the time. By the way, where was The Wiz located? I remember the tagline "Nobody beats the Wiz!", but it was founded in New Jersey [1] and don't recall such a store ever existing near Palo Alto (or the Bay Area). A bit tough to search for today thanks to the thorough marketing campaigns by a cyber security company sharing the same name. [0] https://www.paloaltoonline.com/news/2019/12/27/the-era-of-frys-electronics-comes-to-an-end-in-palo-alto https://www.paloaltoonline.com/news/2019/12/27/the-era-of-fr... [1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Wiz_(store) https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Wiz_(store) I miss Fry's (¬_¬ ) - but not the shitty returns line, haha.
- iNate2000 3y agoThe logo on the shirt looks like Incredible Universe