Back to the Future with RadioShack Catalogs
Here’s a cool find:
an electronic version of just about every RadioShack catalog that’s ever existed. I was surfing Google (if you can really surf Google) for artwork to go with this article on
RadioShack winning customers with Foursquare when I came across RadioShackCatalogs.com, and I’m sure it’s going to be my next time-killer.
What 70s kid did not have a Flavoradio? How many us us remember Boston Pops conductor Arthur Fiedler gracing the covers of RadioShack catalogs? (Not me, but I was bored to death annually as a kid, having to watch the Boston Pops fireworks show or something like that on PBS with my parents when I’m sure something cooler like “Good Times” or “One Day At A Time” was on TV)
Who was jealous of their friends with TRS-80 computers? Who remembers how expensive stereo systems were back in the day? Heck, we’re talking the days of HiFi, not WiFi.
Anyway, for me, the coolest aspect of RadioShackCatalogs.com was the fact the site owner brought all these annual big-books to life via flip-book type technology. It kind of brings RadioShack back to the future, if you will.
And now that RadioShack is using emerging technologies like Foursquare to entice customers, the old-school merchant doesn’t seem as fuddy-duddy anymore.
