goin to CA soon, to be a CC tychoon

From: Cameron Kaiser <spectre_at_floodgap.com>
Date: Sun Jun 8 18:44:00 2003

> > Some background for people who don't live on the U.S. west coast or
> > in Arizona, apart from Fry's being a cheap electronics reseller of
> > notorious repute, many (all?) or their stores have "themes."

> Yup. The old building of the Sunnyvale store (their first) was
> a giant chip :) The new one is kinda themeless, methinks.

The one in Burbank is a movie theme with a spaceship smashed into the
front and lots of movie monster sculptures inside.

The San Diego one is kind of dull. It used to be an Incredible Universe
(if anyone remembers those), and they still use Incredible Universe delivery
trucks presumably because Fry's is too cheap to repaint them.

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