George "The Greek"
HAHahaha I think I know him, he had a cash of Lafayette auction parts as
well
He opened a joint on Steinway street with a character named 'Mike"
SL Jack Electronics, I baught a new in the box Hickok scope from him for $60
in 1988
Sadly its a Applebee's or something now

-Joe

"Tony Angerame" wrote in message
...
I worked for Lafayette in Jamaica, Queens, New York 1963-1964. This was my
first job and I sold Ham/CB Equipment. I worked for a sales manager named
Sandy who worked for the store manager Nat Raucher. George "The Greek"
sold
hifi and camera and the rest worked hard hours "Over the counter". You
could
by any component from a single carbon resistor to a case of electrolytics
over the counter. Two young engineers (RCA Institute grads) met to discuss
some simple designs of ham and cb equipment had their prototypes done in
Japan and then marketed them here. I think this was mostly for the simple
but inexpensive cb's and some ham gear like their 6 meter am transceivers.
I
didn't make much money but the employee discount was good and I bought my
first transceiver the National NCX-3. The American Electronics industy was
a
good viable source of income for many people and at the time I thought it
would last forever.


Tony WA6LZH (WA2LBY)


"Smokey" wrote in message
...
Does anyone know anything about the corporate structure of Lafayette? Is
anyone out there a former employee, especially during the 1950s and
1960s?
Who "absorbed" or bought Lafayette?

Smokey

there was a store clerk in the Boston, Mass. (110 Federal St. ) in the mid
forties, who taught how to move the decimal point 6 places to the right, to go
from mfd to mmfd...roll on to the 70's...i'am in the only Lafayette store in
Las Vegas...a mother and son are trying to find a 50 ohm resistor, son is
wearing a Cub scout uniform..." Joe " the store clerk goes through the blister
packs of resistors, alas no 50 ohm, sez i, " connect two 100 ohms in parallel"
Joe goes postal..always wondered if the boy persued electronics? never went
back to that store for anything after that? I'am 71 this month, and am still
working at a major hotel/casino, fixing tv sets...i shopped at THE radio shack
store on Washington St. store...and my S-38 came from the Lafayette store, in
Boston...the clerks i met in my youth, helped mold a life long career in
electronics...Gene Reed Tsgt usaf retired...wb7ngi

there was a store clerk in the Boston, Mass. (110 Federal St. ) in the mid
forties, who taught how to move the decimal point 6 places to the right, to go
from mfd to mmfd...roll on to the 70's...i'am in the only Lafayette store in
Las Vegas...a mother and son are trying to find a 50 ohm resistor, son is
wearing a Cub scout uniform..." Joe " the store clerk goes through the blister
packs of resistors, alas no 50 ohm, sez i, " connect two 100 ohms in parallel"
Joe goes postal..always wondered if the boy persued electronics? never went
back to that store for anything after that? I'am 71 this month, and am still
working at a major hotel/casino, fixing tv sets...i shopped at THE radio shack
store on Washington St. store...and my S-38 came from the Lafayette store, in
Boston...the clerks i met in my youth, helped mold a life long career in
electronics...Gene Reed Tsgt usaf retired...wb7ngi