I loved Frys. Went there to buy a resistor one time and left with a $5 machete and million candle power flashlight. They always had the strangest stuff to impulse buy.
(Speaking of missing old stores I still miss funcoland. /csb)
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Are you talking about the one in Austin? IIRC that one used to be another cool store called Incredible Universe.
Yes, that’s the one.
They had one in Vegas too. I’d go there all the time! That place was epic…
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I love Fry’s Electronics. That was my go to place when I am going to shop for my pc and for cellphone accessories.
Fry’s in Anaheim and City of Industry were the ones I used to go often. When I was assigned to San Diego, I also went to its 2x stores in there. Also in Vegas, when my folks were busy playing on the Casino, I was on Fry’s spending my money in there instead of having it lose from gambling.
I think I bought my Burning Crusade and WoTLK Collector’s Edition in there. I bought my other Collector’s Edition on Best Buy becoz it’s near to me. I was looking at Fry’s website when I was building a new pc last December. But they dont have a stock maybe due to Covid. I bought the parts on Amazon instead.
I am sad that they have to go. Covid killed a great Electronic Store. I would greatly missed Fry’s.
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The place was Nerd Disneyland in the early 2000’s. The one in Campbell is where I walked in one day, saw a stack of Collector Editions for something called “World of Warcraft”, picked one up and began my addict…I mean hobby. Who knew?
Eh. Maybe they’ll come back once covid isn’t that commonplace.
It’ll take a long time before that’ll happen but eh. It’s possible.
In Vegas I bet it was epic… I didn’t know about that one.
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There were dodgy items on the shelves of the Palo Alto, CA Fry’s too in its final years. Obviously open-box items with a discount sticker slapped on.
Ahhh the Phoenix store
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Okay this is a cheesy memory but I’ll share it. I remember being like. 8 or 9. It was when the “zilla” american godzilla movie came out. That movie got me interested in ol Goji so imagine my glee at this giant boring store when I found some of the old 70s films. ( I say boring because it’s quite boring when you’re a little kid ) First actual Godzilla movie I got was Godzilla vs Megalon, the one that introduced Mechagodzilla, and Godzilla vs King Kong.
It’s just a fond memory watching old kaiju movies on this little tv I had. I know it’s silly to be sentimental about a store but it’s still a nice memory.
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The one that looked like a temple.
It’s kind of a trip to think some of us likely have been to that very store
I always went to the Anaheim store just down the street from Camelot Golfland.
That’s where my dad used to go when he was building us all our computers years ago .
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O crap,they’re all shutting down? That’s a shame I got my first Wacom art tablet there for 45 bucks! This pandemic has been hitting alot of places pretty hard even with the vaccine being out.
I know I definitely bought OOMPH and Eisbrecher cds there too. Most of my rammstein cds were ordered from germany because I was always mega impatient.
That was a lot of our child hood .
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Fry’s was pretty much a zombie even a year before covid. At that point the shelves of many of its stores were already mostly bare, and the store closest to me had already closed its doors.
We had both now just Best Buy
I walked in to my first fry’s electronics a year and a half ago. I wish I had seen it in it’s glory. Even when it was going out of business, it seemed great.