Two brothers, Theodore and Milton Deutschmann, created RadioShack in 1921 while they looked for a way to provide equipment to ham radio operators. The pair opened up one retail store and a mail-order center in Boston, Massachusetts, and named the company after the small wooden building that housed the radio equipment on a ship.
The company quickly grew, releasing its first catalog in 1939 and its own line of private-label items in 1954. RadioShack operates primarily as an e-commerce website, a network of approximately 500 independently owned, franchised RadioShack stores, and a supplier of parts for HobbyTown USA.
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