<html><head></head><body><div class="yahoo-style-wrap" style="font-family:Helvetica Neue, Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif;font-size:13px;"><div id="ydp95db135yahoo_quoted_2766425872" class="ydp95db135yahoo_quoted">On Saturday, March 9, 2019, 3:33:31 PM PST, Rick Moen <rick@linuxmafia.com> wrote:
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<div><br clear="none">>I mourn for the old Zack Electronics[2] store that was at 654 High Street <br clear="none">>a block south of University Ave., Palo Alto, but Al Lasher's is almost<br clear="none">>as good.<br clear="none"><br clear="none">I had forgotten about Zack's. It was a very good place before it moved away<br clear="none"><br clear="none">>Fry's Palo Alto location will in the next year or so be lost to<br clear="none">>redevelopment, so, if you want to see their Old West kitsch, see it soon.<br clear="none"><br clear="none"><div>The trend in redevelopment is 3 or 4 or 7 stories with residences above and so-called retail on the ground floor.</div><div><br></div><div>Unfortunately "retail" has become a synonym for over-fancy, over-priced restaurant. A TruValue hardware or even a Radio Shack is never in the mix. I can count at least 3 bicycle shops that have closed the past couple of years.</div><div><br></div><div>A bit of good news: HSC has sold its remaining inventory to <span>Excess Solutions on South 7th St in San Jose.</span><br></div></div>
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