These was a Lafayette store in Buffalo, NY. Around 1970 or so it became
Purchase Radio, which gradually turned into a Hi-Fi joint. Purchase opened 3
more branches in the suburbs, then vanished in the late 1970s.

"Mike Knudsen" wrote in message
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In article , "Smokey"
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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?

Funny, the others reminiscing about NYC and Chicago. But I remember when
there
was a big Laughin-Yet store on Comonwealth Ave in Boston, about 1967. I
always
assumed Lafayette was a Boston-based outfit, and that was the "mother"
store.
Guess I was wrong.

I used to take the subway once in a while and ogle the wares. I cam
close to
buying their "inmported" 6m AM transceiver, but ended up mail-ordering and
building the Knight-Kit equivalent instead.

Funny thing is, there was a Radio Shack store of equal size (big) a block
away.
--Mike K.
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