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Archae

(46,328 posts) Tue Feb 18, 2014, 01:20 AM Feb 2014

Wisconsin Institution is closing...

American TV is closing their doors this year.

Remember "Crazy Lenny?"

http://www.wisn.com/news/money/american-tv-announces-it-will-go-out-of-business/24521924

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Wisconsin Institution is closing... (Original Post) Archae Feb 2014 OP

Wow.... dhill926 Feb 2014 #1

I don't remember a time without American. I miss Crazy TV Lenny. Ed Suspicious Feb 2014 #2

geeze! 2naSalit Feb 2014 #3

i remember driving past his first store in madison. madrchsod Feb 2014 #4

My nephew assembled bicycles for American for a couple years. He said he could put .... Scuba Feb 2014 #5

canary in the coal mine--stores that cater to the middle income are dying dembotoz Feb 2014 #6

More jobs lost! You'd think Wanker believers could see this?? hue Feb 2014 #7

dhill926

(16,339 posts)

1. Wow....

Reply to Archae (Original post)

Tue Feb 18, 2014, 02:10 AM

Feb 2014

Got our first TeeVee there a looong time ago.

Ed Suspicious

(8,879 posts)

2. I don't remember a time without American. I miss Crazy TV Lenny.

Reply to Archae (Original post)

Tue Feb 18, 2014, 02:39 AM

Feb 2014

I actually had a job there for a brief time a number of years ago at the Appleton location. It already felt like a shell of its former self then.

2naSalit

(86,638 posts)

3. geeze!

Reply to Archae (Original post)

Tue Feb 18, 2014, 02:49 AM

Feb 2014

I remember when he had one store in Madison and it was before the mega store he built. Wow. He was like the Best Buy of the 70s/80s.

What ever happened to Lenny anyway? Last I remember, he was getting the most expensive divorce in the history of the state.

madrchsod

(58,162 posts)

4. i remember driving past his first store in madison.

Reply to Archae (Original post)

Tue Feb 18, 2014, 03:13 AM

Feb 2014

if i remember correctly it was his brothers shop and he made money liquidating the inventory. loved his commercials! we`ve got a trailer full of bicycles !