What ever happended to...................

Posted by: Don Atkinson on 30 December 2015

TANDY ?

Did they go bankrupt, voluntary liquidation, merge, swallowed up ?

Just curious. I popped into Reading today, must be six months or a year since I last went into town. I wasn't surprised that Tandy was gone, its been gone for donkey years, but as I wandered past the place it had been, I began to wonder "What ever happened to....."

Loads of other "Whatever happened to...." hifi (*) names began to spring to mind as well.....

(*) OK, so Tandy wasn't top-notch hifi, but.........neither was Laskey's...........

Posted on: 24 January 2016 by Don Atkinson
PaulC posted:

and JG Windows in Newcastle. I well remember the name but don't recall ever visiting them. Were they in one of the arcades ?

Yes, they were. Was there a "Central Arcade" - 35 years ago now and my memory for such things is fading. Windows was where I bought all my vinyl from as well.

 I didn't get into CD until after I left uni - couldn't afford to!

 

 

Yes, there was a Central Arcade, but I don't recall exactly where. Possibly close to Gray's monument ?

I left university in 1968, so CDs were still more than a decade away..........

Posted on: 24 January 2016 by CariocaJeff

Yes Windows was in the Central Arcade just down from Grays monument. Quite a while since I was in the centre of Newcastle but I think was still there in c2006. Would be surprised if not still there, as it always did well adapting to change, while keeping the largest collection of classical records I have ever seen. Used to have a really good hifi winter sale when I was a student