Post #133234 by cynfulcynner on Wed, Dec 29, 2004 8:43 PM

Here's a list of Fry's locations and their themes (from frys.com):

In Northern California:

• Sunnyvale's marble floors and grand piano elegantly display the history of Silicon Valley with hi-tech museum pieces
• Palo Alto brings you into Wild Bill's Wild, Wild West
• Campbell's ancient Egypt theme has a 20-foot sphinx and King Tut tombs
• Fremont is dedicated to the origins of electricity as featured at the 1893 World's Fair in Chicago
• San Jose pays tribute to the first astronomers, the Mayans, with a setting from Chichenitza.
• Concord is the newest addition to the Bay Area market.

In Southern California:

• Fountain Valley hails the ruins of ancient Rome, complete with a flowing aqueduct
• Manhattan Beach takes you to Tahiti with sculpted lava tiki heads and its own rain forest
• Woodland Hills is a page out of Lewis Carroll's Alice in Wonderland storybook, with 10 to 15 foot high figurines of all the characters
• Anaheim places you on the NASA flight deck for the Endeavor Space Shuttle, complete with launches on big screen TV's
• Burbank pulls you back in time to the 1950's with a retro-space theme from Hollywood, complete with Martians and Gort, the robot
• City of Industry where the factory setting is a salute to the Industrial Revolution complete with oversized gears and cogs
• The mystical civilization of Atlantis is alive and thriving in San Marcos with numerous aquatic features including a 7000 gallon aquarium with live sharks.

In Arizona:

• Phoenix features a giant serpent above the entrance which is emblematic of its Aztec design.

In Texas:

• Dallas' Lazy-K ranch is reminiscent of it's cattle ranching history
• Houston showcases the oil industry replete with a field of gushing oil derricks
• Austin is a tribute to the city's reputation as the "Live Music Capital of the World"
• Irving features a pictorial history of the community which was founded in the early 1900s and named after Washington Irving
• Plano depicts the city's evolution from a farming community to a modern-day urban center of commerce

In Nevada:

• the Las Vegas entrance welcomes customers with the world's largest slot machine and features a pictoral history of the Vegas Strip inside

In Washington:

• our Renton store features a historical depiction of the industrial evolution of the community with photographs of the Stetson Mill in 1911 and the originally-built Boeing plant in 1941.

The Sacramento, San Diego, Tempe, Wilsonville, and Arlington stores are all works in progress.