Somewhat OT: Times Co. threatens to shutter Boston Globe.

[Paul Hopfgarten]

My favorite radio ad has to be "How many cookies did ANdrew eat? ANdrew 
8-8000!

-Paul H
Derry NH
----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Dave Tomm" <nostaticatall@charter.net>
To: "Richard Chonak" <rac@gabrielmass.com>
Cc: <boston-radio-interest@bostonradio.org>
Sent: Monday, April 06, 2009 2:03 AM
Subject: Re: Somewhat OT: Times Co. threatens to shutter Boston Globe.


> My personal favorite was Leiser Sound, a small mom & pop electronics 
> store chain that used to tag all their radio spots with "Leiser Sound, 
> with stores in Norwich and Groton, CT and Shrewsbury, Mass, where  SPAGS 
> is next to Leiser!  They may have had a Hartford area store at  one point 
> as well, but they were mostly an Eastern CT/Central MA  advertiser.
>
> Those spots ran all the time in the Worcester, Norwich, New London and 
> Willimantic area stations in the 80's and early 90's.
>
>
> On Apr 5, 2009, at 11:17 PM, Richard Chonak wrote:
>
>> Roger Kirk wrote:
>>> Might as well include [...] Tweeter Etc., Bradlees,
>>
>> Throw in Tech Hi-Fi too.  If I remember rightly. Tweeter came and  went 
>> bust, and came back; was this latest Tweeter chain the third  time that 
>> name has been around?
>>
>> Some department stores: J.M. Fields; Giant; Rich's; and, yes, I  remember 
>> Mars, or rather, "Mars Bargainland".
>>
>> -- 
>> --RC
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