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In Reply to: RE: No one survives the Apple Mothership.... posted by AbeCollins on January 17, 2025 at 17:29:55

Ah, Fry's, here's my own personal Fry's timeline
I grew up in Hayward, definitely East Bay. Our local grocery store was, Fry's Foods where we did all our grocery shopping. The owner sold the business and gave his kids, including one John C. Fry, shares of the proceeds. They started Fry's Electronics.
I worked a couple of blocks from Fry's in Palo Alto. I spent many a lunch hour strolling the aisles, between there and Tower Records a bit down the street in Los Altos, a good portion of my paycheck was spent.
Fast forward to a few years ago. My daughter started ballet training. The school was the former school of the defunct Silicon Valley/Cleveland Ballet. One of the benefactors of the SVB was one, John C. Fry. One of my daughter's teachers was a former principal dancer of the SVB. She was involved in an "intimate relationship" with Mr. Fry. When my daughter decided to quit, said teacher had just had a baby, fathered by, guess who, John C. Fry.
There is a former Fry's near me that they are turning into a pickle ball center!

Edits: 01/17/25 01/17/25

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That exact Tower Records was the one I frequented when we lived on the Peninsula - Chris from Lafayette 00:59:50 01/18/25 (1)
This of course was decades ago.

We may even have unknowingly run into each other there. I always thought that its location, being on the Bay side of El Camino Real was actually in Mountain View.
- RE: That exact Tower Records was the one I frequented when we lived on the Peninsula - Sibelius 12:57:08 01/18/25 (0)
  I think you're right, literally one side of the street (blue signs?) was Mt. View, the other side (brown signs ?) was Los Altos, which of course meant more $$$. Now that you mention it, there was always some odd fellow lurking around the babe musician
  selections, hmmm.
  
  It's all changed. Chef Chu's is still there. That's where we would go to celebrate a "victory", for the lawyers anyway. It was such a great store. I go by there to my Dr.'s appts., which is sadly all to frequently now.

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