I remember my first visit to Radio Shack in 1999, somewhere north of Miami, probably Ft. Lauderdale. My dad needed some rare component to fix his ham radio. Since that specific component was nowhere to get in Germany in 1999 we used the opportunity to order it during our vacation in Florida. Radio Shack managed to get this cheap part from Japan within a couple of days and back home my dad fixed his ham radio and was happy again. :-) I was totally fascinated what they had for sale in their store.
Later, in 2004 in Tuscaloosa, Alabama I visited a Radio Shack store in some shopping mall again. My former fascination was more or less gone, only finding cellular phones and notebooks for sale that were also offered at Walmart.