Dann’s Electronics

I visited this shop once, just once, in 1999 while I was staying in Portland, OR with a couple of my employees from the corporate world for a few days while presenting at a conference. I had one day off from the conference and from work, and so I did the drive up to the Vancouver, Canada area to explore a bit. While passing through Surrey, I noticed this shop — which looked, from the storefront, like it was right out of the 1950s — and stopped because I remembered that I needed a little audio jack adapter to use in my presentation at the conference the next day.
The shop was odd and memorable not only because it seemed to be a remnant relic of a genre of stores that existed 50 years ago, but because of the somewhat-​related fact that it also sold bicycles, hardware and lawn and garden supplies. And, if I remember correctly, it also sold tires and repaired flat tires!
Well, they had quite a good selection of audio components and parts in stock, and I was easily able to find the audio adapte/​connector that I needed, and the staff and service were fine. I was likely in the shop for less than six minutes, and that was my sole experience with the shop.
However, here is the interesting thing about this shop, and it is something that I stumbled across only recently:
As the years passed, I ended up becoming a fan of the science fiction TV series Fringe, and eventually ended up watching all of the seasons. Well, one of my favorite episodes of Fringe was Season 4, Episode 1, entitled «Neither Here Nor There», where the Observer named September was browsing for parts in a surplus electronics parts shop because he needed to build a device to erase someone from time:
Now, within the context of the story line of the show, the surplus electronics parts shop was located somewhere in Cambridge or Boston, Massachussetts. However, I recently learned, while doing a bit of research on the locations used in the filming of the show, that the actual filming location for the visit by the Observer to the surplus electronics parts shop was none other than Dann’s Electronics in Surrey, BC, Canada! Small world!
Apparently, by the end of the second season of the show, much of Fringe was being filmed in Vancouver, BC, and its environs. And apparently the Dann’s Electronics shop has been rented across the years as a film location for not only a few scenes in the Fringe TV show, but also as a location for scenes from a goodly number of TV shows and movies as well!