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Fort Meyer TV go bye bye?
Posted by: Bill Emco ()
Date: March 16, 2010 01:09PM

This old fart actually remembers when Ft. Meyer TV was in Ft. Meyer area. Later moved to Pan Am shopping center and ended up in Vienna for a number of years. Saw the other day it had vacated the premises. Noticing a lot of small retail businesses are biting the dust in the Fairfax City/ Vienna area in the last month or so. Is this going on throughout Fairfax County?

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Re: Fort Meyer TV go bye bye?
Posted by: Nope they moved ()
Date: March 16, 2010 03:03PM

Dude they probably just moved again. Duh.

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Re: Fort Meyer TV go bye bye?
Posted by: NegativeDreamStealer ()
Date: March 16, 2010 05:18PM

Yes, a number of commercial spaces in Vienna are sitting vacant. Most of them housed businesses that were doomed anyhow. The recession simply finished the job.

Yet the mattress stores live on.

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Re: Fort Meyer TV go bye bye?
Posted by: sum young guy ()
Date: March 17, 2010 03:29AM

Despite the recession I don't think I've seen one nail salon shut down. I even think a few more have opened up in my area. does something else happen in these nail salons besides nail touch ups?

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Re: Fort Meyer TV go bye bye?
Posted by: Victor ()
Date: March 17, 2010 11:52PM

Noticed today another old tv repair place is no more. TV Anotronics(?) on Washington St. in Falls Church across from the German Deli sort of. I believe that brings to end small tv repair shops in the northern part of Fairfax county. Been looking for a large outdoor tv antenna. Last place I know of that might have them is a hardware store out in Manassas on Euclid Ave. Seeing a lot of small busineesses in Fairfax City going away in the last month. Is the local economy really getting better?

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Re: Fort Meyer TV go bye bye?
Posted by: Yesterday is gone ()
Date: March 20, 2010 03:08AM

See the Phouc Loc market in Fairfax City has gone. Shopping center were the thrift shop Yesterday's Rose is. I believe the old Phouc Loc had been in that location some 15+ years? Was it one of first stores outside of Lil' Vietnam in Clarendon? Noticed a few more small retail businesses in the Kamp Washington area of Fairfax City have also recently bit dust.

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Re: Fort Meyer TV go bye bye?
Posted by: Nova_lifer ()
Date: March 20, 2010 08:37AM

There is a guy in Vienna (Oakton TV & Electronics) who repairs electronic equipment out of his garage. I've taken old TVs to him and he repaired them for less than $100. Hardest part was for me to carrying these old sets in and out of the house. Yes I do have one HDTV and will buy another the next time one of these old sets needs repair.

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Re: Fort Meyer TV go bye bye?
Posted by: Nova_lifer ()
Date: March 20, 2010 08:43AM

BTW I remembered Fort Myer TV burning down years ago. I thought that was the end of the business but I believe it was rebuilt before moving to the Nutley location.

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Re: Fort Meyer TV go bye bye?
Posted by: johnnybob ()
Date: May 17, 2010 09:50PM

If they show up, let me know. I had a TV there for repair and they have vanished with it.

I doubt that they will reopen elsewhere. The new HD TVs are not repaired in the same manner as older tube TVs and parts for a flatscreen run almost as much as a new set. They were not going to order new parts for mine - they were "waiting" for a used part to become available on the secondary market.

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Re: Fort Meyer TV go bye bye?
Posted by: ITRADE ()
Date: May 18, 2010 10:01AM

NegativeDreamStealer Wrote:
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> Yes, a number of commercial spaces in Vienna are
> sitting vacant. Most of them housed businesses
> that were doomed anyhow. The recession simply
> finished the job.
>
> Yet the mattress stores live on.


Don't worry, we need a couple more banks in Vienna.

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