I also worked at that store in roughly the same era. I was later transferred to Fiesta Mall and worked with Joe Provenzano. In 4th quarter 1992  took over the store at Kyrene and Warner where I stayed until about March 1995. It's possible that I worked with you (Gil Davis)? I worked at Southern and Mill for at least a year, if I recall. 

@dukecityman Gil Davis, why does your name sound so familure? When you were at Warner & Kyrene I would of been the skinny young tweenty year old sales kids that was into computers by the name of Shane O'Neill!!!!!! I do believe you were my manager, if memory serves back then I think you drove a civic or equivelant car.  When I was at the warner & kyrene store I was then going to the manager training school with Emerson who also worked with me at warner and kyrene.

A couple of things I did at Warner & Kyrene if it helps the memory:

• I  created the Minimus 7/77 tunnel in the middle of the store when those were having a big sale so shoppers could walk through it with a couple of the spearkers playing music at them as they passed through the tunnel.
• I would often drive the RC Sagita car out in the parking lot messing with folks over at the homedepot and the hotdog guys cart.
• Played a lot of Wolfenstien 3D on the Tandy 2500 and Sensation! computers that were on display.

I worked Kyrene and Warner (next to the homedepot) from about late 92-Feb 94 when I transfered back to Albuqeurque NM.  Prior to Kyrene/Warner I worked the Alma School store in the Mervyns Shopping center.  I started with Shack @ Southern & Mill around 1991, the manager there was Kim something.

If this helps, I still have Leo Paquette name badge from Kyrene & Warner, dunno how I ended up with his badge.  And the name Bob Kenefalcamps (sp error) is ringing in my head if that rings a bell.

Here is my badge from Kyrene & Warner along with Leo's.

Yes, the speaker tunnel was not on the plan-o-gram but the store was doing so well that we did take a lot of liberties. I was the guy who trained Mike Rose and he took a store not far away. Wasn't Emerson kind of a big guy? If he was, then he wanted also to manage a store. We took that store from number 27 out of 33 to a consistent number 7 just behind the mall stores and Stapley and Main. I kept getting told to put the store to plan-o-gram, but how in the heck else could we build a huge speaker tunnel in which most of the speakers worked. And a pyramid of 100 $25 indoor antennas. Can't for the life of me remember the store number.. 87 something. 655 W Warner seems to be right. And until Jeff Lane took it over, it still wasn't quite the way the company would have wanted it. Even the RM saw it and just looked the other way. Lol... 

@dukecityman I remember the RM (can't remember his name but I remember his dodge van he would roll up in) rolling his eyes when he saw the first tunnel of speakers and I remember you and I telling him, were selling the speakers though! I even remember calling near by stores for more speakers because of that.  I did create a speaker tunnel at the Abq store I transfered to, the manager thought I was nuts but I told him give me 1 week and I will sell these!!!! LOL we did.

Mike Rose, that name does not ring a bell, maybe he was there after I left?  I also remember on Sundays (i think it was), we would on occastion go get french dips at the bar/resturaunt just a couple doors down.

Yes Emerson was kinda big, hehe, dark hair and trimmed beard with glasses. He always walked more like a slow strut or something, and had that calm slow way of talking, almost like he had to ponder everything he would say.  Indeed he wanted to be a store manager too, him and I would carpool to the manager meetings in Mesa.  I still have my huge manager training binder and a lot of other goodies from those days. 

In fact my experience at Radio Shack and the manager training was all a big help for me to start my own company allowing me to be self employeed for the past 25+ years.

You were the most chill laid back manager I rememeber having and helped me to transfer to Albuquerque. I didn't stay long with RS once I got back to Albueuquerque, I quickly went over to Motorola for a few years then Microsoft contracted me to be a software trainer for Intel for about 6 years here in NM, OR and AZ.  I'm still here in NM though, its home.  I miss the radio shack days they were fun, my business storage looks like the back room of a radio shack between my retro computer collection, business stuff and radio shack stuff. 

My wife an I were just trying to remember the name of the one sales guy we had at Kyrene/Warner that gave us his basset hound "buddy". Do you remember him? (the sales guy) He would always talk about being a former Hells Angel biker and told many colorful stories to us. He was tall and burly I think blondish hair.  He didn't seem to last long and was very in your face to the customers.