In The beginning there Was A Radio Shack
RadioShack begins in 1919 in Fort Worth, where two friends, Norton Hinckley and Dave L. Tandy met. During there visit the decided to pool their resources and go into business together. Their store, which they named the Hinckley-Tandy Leather Company, sold leather shoe parts to shoe repair shops in the Fort Worth area.
Two years later, two brothers, Theodore and Milton Deutschmann, opened a one-store retail and mail-order operation downtown Boston. They chose the name, "RadioShack," which was a term for the small, wooden structure that housed a ship's radio equipment. The Deutschmanns thought the name was appropriate for a store that would supply the needs of radio officers aboard ships, as well as "ham" radio operators.
Beginning in 1921, RadioShack would grow to a handful of stores clustered in the Northeast, and become a leading electronics mail-order distributor to hobbyists. This is how it would remain until the company and a......
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