Look! An empty florescent light store! See all the tubes on display on the walls? Well, not really... It is in fact a Sprint store which sells cell phones. It used to be a Radio Shack store for years and years and I bought so many electronic parts for projects over the years. Radio Shack went under and Sprint bought some of their stores, and turned them in to boring cell phone stores. So what's going on? Well, T-Mobile has just bought Sprint, so they are cleaning out their stores and making them T-Mobil stores. The florescent tubes are "light boxes" to hold large color transparencies displaying phones. When they want to change a picture, they take down the old transparency, and put up a new one! What boggles my mind is that it was night, the store was closed, and yet they have all these freaking florescent tubes lit up - for what? For nothing. I will have to come back some night (this store is right next to a MacDonalds where we get our ice cream cones, so I WILL be back) and I will take another photograph to show you the beautiful color displays when they put them up.
Wasting electricity. You should return when they are open and tell them to conserve. The store next-door is not brightly lit and I would imagine they all have security cameras.
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I remember Dad always reminding us to "turn off the lights"! What a waste. Probably trying to attract attention to the fact that they are a T-Mobile store now. I'll be interested in the color displays when you photograph them. betsey
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