"Two other bay area places that have changed a lot are Frys" One of my fondest memories when I was out in SV in the early 90's was Frys and Weird Stuff Warehou

"Two other bay area places that have changed a lot are Frys" One of my fondest memories when I was out in SV in the early 90's was Frys and Weird Stuff Warehouse. I think I first heard of WSW and Fry's in a book written by Guy Kawasaki [1] who was a big deal in the late 80's. Recently I had the opportunity to visit Fry's in 2006 when I was in town for an conference. Then later in Las Vegas last year. Fry's of 2006 was no match for what I remembered in the early 90's. But nowhere near as bad as the Las Vegas store which to me was like a large Best Buy. Another great store that changed was Micro Center. They had all sorts of little parts, tools, gadgets and a great book section. When I recently visited that it had also changed greatly and there was a slop of merchandise as well as empty shelves and little to call a book section (which was a total mess). That was the store in Pennsylvania. They still had the logos of companies in the store as part of the lighted signage such as "Okidata" , "Creative Labs", and so on. They never even took that info down even though from memory most of the companies from their golden era didn't even really exist anymore at least selling to that market (Oki exists but not selling the same type products that would be sold at a retail store like Micro Center). (I had an Okidata 2410 in the 80's loved the sound of that printing things high speed..) [1] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Guy_Kawasaki http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Guy_Kawasaki