Talk:Lafayette Radio

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Looks like a lot of great information is contained in this article that is available no where else. I wish it was backed up by citations to reliable references. Otherwise, it's just one, long, personal essay. Nice read, but not suitable for an encyclopedia. Hate to see it deleted. Any sources? - LuckyLouie 04:43, 16 July 2007 (UTC)

This info is a rare find, and I disagree with LuckyLouie that it is "not suitable for an encyclopedia". Until somewhere else is established to store this information and make it available when queried, leave it in Wikipedia. Someone went to a lot of trouble to include these details even though there are no citations to reliable references. But some information, much of it accurate and maybe some not so, is way better than having no historical record of it ever existing at all. 71.125.139.64 20:44, 26 September 2007 (UTC)

I agree with you 71.125.139.64, it is a low traffic article and likely won't be purged of unsourced material. Yet according to WP:RS, the material, however well-intentioned and intrinsically valuable, can be removed by any registered account. Rather than hope that this article will escape scrutiny why not encourage someone with access to Library or historic records in L.I., N.Y. to contribute sources? - LuckyLouie 01:25, 15 November 2007 (UTC)

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I spent much of my youth at various Lafayette stores. My father took me to loft building at 100 6th Ave in Manhattan to buy our first Fisher 400 receiver setup, complete with low-end Garrard changer and Lafayette SK-300 speakers. I still have several Lafayette items new in sealed boxes. What amazes me is how a major retailer that had such a large footprint in its industry could so totally vaporize from the historical record. A few years ago the nephew of the founder of LRE, whose name I can only remember as Abe Pletman, put up a history of Lafayette on the internet. It has disappeared.

I am not familiar with much of what the author writes about Lafayette, but I have no reason to reject his chronicle. Those parts that I do recognize are correct, as far as I can remember. One death of Lafayette (there were 2 bankruptcies, as I recall) occurred after the FCC mandated that CB radios must have 40 channels as of a certain date. Apparently Lafayette's Japanese manufacturers knew about this change of law, but Lafayette didn't. LRE was stuck with a warehouse full of 23 channel CB radios.

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—Preceding unsigned comment added by Lusciousbobby (talk • contribs) 17:09, 27 December 2007 (UTC)

Lusciousbobby (talk) 17:16, 27 December 2007 (UTC)

I purchased parts for amateur radio in the mid 1970's in lower mid Michigan. In one instance I requested numerous resistors, and after some days, was to be charged S/H, which I refused, expecting the price in the catalog. I've heard the store nicknamed "Laugh A Lot". Lawrence —Preceding unsigned comment added by 71.57.53.31 (talk) 01:51, 19 February 2008 (UTC)