Lafayette Radio Trusted Americans to Build It Themselves — Then This Happened

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• BE

  @BeyondOfficialHistory · 1 month ago

  I bought a Lafayette stereo when I was 19 in 1972. Later, I gave it to my parents. My mother was still using it when she passed in 2007. That’s getting your money’s worth. BTW love the doc ❤

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• VI

  @Vintage-Technology--Gary · 1 month ago

  Good job on Lafayette. You brought back memories of at 15 year old boy building a complete stereo system. from 1962 to 1965. Thank you Sir.

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• TH

  @TheOriginalDJMrVee · 1 month ago

  Wow! I was a kid living in Flatbush when this was in business. I'd completely forgotten about them. They used to have circulars that came in the mail, if I remember correctly. For someone like me, that was as exciting as something from Radio Shack! Thanks for unlocking this memory for me. 🥰

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• ST

  @stanstocker8858 · 3 weeks ago

  I built their 5 tube  all band SW receiver when I was 9 years old, in 1968.  Dad and I went and picked it up at the old store in Baltimore.  Still miss Lafayette, Heathkit, and the old radio shacks that were real electronics parts and kit stores.  Thanks for bringing back some happy memories from the home brew era.

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• JO

  @josephpatsch849 · 4 weeks ago (edited)

  I bought my 1st fire vhf hi lo portable &nbsp;programmable scanner in their catalog at their store<br>.thanks for the memories 😊

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• JI

  @jimwolfe4286 · 1 month ago

  Thank you for the Lafayette memories.....My First CB Radio was Laf. Comstat 25B in 1969.....I also built a short wave set (kit) in Jan. 1969...a real bad Snow storm hit NYC area ..no school for 9 days !....

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• ER

  @erin19030 · 3 days ago

  I remember building <br>Lafayette kits in the Army for the officer ranks. They knew me at promotion time, but not fit the favors I gifted them , but for the skills on the job I presented and show cased on my off duty time while everyone else was downtown in the clubs late at night. When an alert was called on was on post and ready to roll.

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  @moboutmen · 1 month ago

  I still have my HE-20C base station.

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• WI

  @WilliamXLee · 4 weeks ago (edited)

  My brother worked at Lafayette, I remember going to the store on sixth Avenue as a young kid. I was so excited. I actually threw up as soon as I got inside. Totally embarrassing my brother. Lafayette was a great store. Of course, those of us who lived in New York during those times, know about this, but probably most of the world doesn’t even know how amazing it was.

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• JE

  @jeffreyfritz5866 · 1 month ago

  The town in pronounced Cy-oss-set. And thank you reviving my Lafayette memories!

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  @Hammondguy88 · 1 month ago

  Loved that store

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• JA

  @JasonJay-t4n · 1 month ago

  Interesting to note that early computers advanced along the same line as radio: Heathkits, radio shack kits, etc. Did Lafayette do some PC kits as well?

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