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- William Halligan, one of Deutschmann's first employees and later the founder of Hallicrafters, suggested the name, “Radio Shack”. They chose the name, "Radio Shack," which was a term for the room that housed a ship's radio equipment.
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The Deutschmanns thought the name was appropriate for a store that would supply the needs of radio officers aboard ships, as well as hams (amateur radio operators). The idea for the name came from an employee, Bill Halligan, [ citation needed ] who went on to form the Hallicrafters company.
Two years later and half a continent away, two brothers, Theodore and Milton Deutschmann, opened a one-store retail and mail-order operation in the heart of downtown Boston. They chose the name, "RadioShack," which was a term for the small, wooden structure that housed a ship's radio equipment.
In 1985 the company entered the name brand retail market with the acquisitions of Scott-McDuff and Video Concepts, two electronic equipment chain stores. The 290 stores organized under the Tandy Brand Name Retail Group did not follow the RadioShack policy of selling exclusively private label brands.
The newly formed Radio Shack Corporation under the ownership of the Deutschmann brothers opened the doors of the first Radio Shack store, located in a basement space on Brattle Street in downtown Boston, on January 1, 1936.
Radio Shack started in 1921 in Boston, Massachusetts by brothers Theodore and Milton Deutschmann. They wanted to provide equipment for the cutting-edge field of amateur, or ham, radio. The store’s name was taken from a slang phrase of the time denoting any place where radio equipment was kept and used.
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