Georgetown Time Machine: Nobody Beats the Wiz

This week for Georgetown Time Machine, GM is dipping back into his 1993 photos. This time he’s stopping by Wisconsin and O St. Now it’s the site of a recently departed bank. But thirty years ago it was a riot of colors and served as the home of Nobody Beats the Wiz.

Nobody Beats the Wiz was an electronics store that was primarily based in the New York/New Jersey area. To those not from the area, they may have remembered it from a Seinfeld episode:

(Those from the NY/NJ area can surely recite the theme song without hesitation, and could probably name their favorite Wiz spokesmen, whether it’s Boomer Eisiason or Patrick Ewing.)

While it was mainly located in the north, as many as 13 locations were in the DC area by the early 90s. The expansion didn’t last. By 1995, 9 of the 13 locations closed, including the Georgetown location. The entire chain followed just eight years later.

But as long as tri-staters born before 2000 walk this earth, the tune to “Nobody beats the Wiz, Nobody beats the Wiz!” will live on, buried deep in their brains.