<table cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" border="0" ><tr><td valign="top" style="font: inherit;">A ham radio friend sent the following. I think it might be of interest to at least some of the Cabal attendees. <br><br>I remember visiting the Lafayette Radio store in downtown Cleveland when I was in high school. Didn't have the budget for most of their merchandise, but it was fun to drool. <br><br>Paul<br><br>--- On <b>Wed, 4/3/13, John <i>... </i></b> wrote:<br><blockquote style="border-left: 2px solid rgb(16, 16, 255); margin-left: 5px; padding-left: 5px;"><br><div id="yiv10334090">
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<div><font size="4">We've seen what happened in the roughly half a century since
we were high school geek kid hams .................. here's a look at the
roughly half a century that was before we came on the scene.</font></div>
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</font><style></style><div><font size="4"> Sixty Years of Lafayette Radio</font></div>
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<div><font face="Tahoma">Can't help but notice the "copy cat" corporate culture
and strategy they used. Lot of their stuff was Hallicrafters, Heath, WRL, look
alikes. Their catalogs and marketing were similar to what I saw from my dad's
antique auto connections like Wachawski in Chicago and the adds look a lot like
Sears & Roebuck of that era. And the Jap import mentality that couples to
what Allied, Radio Shack, etc did is easy to spot
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