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Circuit City was a consumer electronics retail company founded in 1949 as Wards Company and operated stores across the United States. It pioneered the electronics superstore format in the 1970s and changed its name to Circuit City in 1984, but went bankrupt in 2009 and relaunched in 2016.
On April 4, 1991, 41 employees and customers were taken hostage by four gunmen and held at a Good Guys! electronics store at the corner of 65th Street and Stockton Boulevard in Sacramento, California, near the Florin Mall (now Florin Town Centre) for approximately eight hours. Near the end of the hostage crisis, six were killed: three hostages ...
Fry's Electronics was a big-box store chain that sold consumer electronics, computer hardware, and groceries. It started in 1985 in Silicon Valley and expanded to 34 stores in nine states, but filed for bankruptcy and closed in 2021 due to COVID-19 and retail challenges.
CompUSA was a major electronics retailer in the US that closed most of its stores in 2008 and relaunched online in 2018. Learn about its origins, expansion, decline, and current situation from this Wikipedia article.
Eureka is a coastal city and the county seat of Humboldt County, located on the shores of Humboldt Bay, 270 miles north of San Francisco. The city has a maritime climate, a historic downtown, a commercial fishing port, and a state historic landmark with Victorian homes and a zoo.
Find out the names, locations, dates and jurisdictions of current and former courthouses of the United States federal court system in California. See images and historical notes of some buildings, such as the Ronald Reagan Federal Building and Courthouse in Santa Ana.
Willow Springs International Motorsports Park (commonly referred to as Willow Springs) is located in Willow Springs near Rosamond, California, about 80 mi (130 km) north of Los Angeles. It is the oldest permanent road course in the United States. [ 1 ]
The Firearms Policy Coalition (FPC), a plaintiff in the California case, welcomed the parts of the 9th Circuit's ruling that rejected the state's defense of certain location-specific gun restrictions.