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| From | "mkropp" <mkropp@comcast.net> |
| Subject | Re: Vinyl Purchase Memories |
| Date | Sat, 19 Jul 2003 13:36:24 -0400 |
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My good friend Mark hit the nail on the head regarding Korvettes in the
Philadelphia area. Growing up the suburbs (Drexel Hill), our Korvettes was
in nearby Springfield. I bought many albums and 45's there when I was a
kid. I remember buying Wings' "Venus and Mars" album there when it came out
(I was about 10), and I remember getting a friend's brother to drive me
there to buy "Get The Knack" when it came out... Korvettes' music area was
always a fun place to hang out whenever Mom would take us there for
whatever.
----- Original Message -----
From: Mark Eichelberger <markeichelberger@comcast.net>
To: Audities <audities@smoe.org>
Sent: Saturday, July 19, 2003 12:05 AM
Subject: Vinyl Purchase Memories
This post brought back memories of my first vinyl purchases in my teens. I
grew up in suburban Philadelphia and during the mid to late 1970's, my
friends and I would go to a large discount store called Korvettes in the
recently opened King Of Prussia Mall. Korvettes had the best prices and a
pretty decent selection. As I remember, everything else they sold in the
store was basically junk, but the Record department did really brisk
business, particularly on the weekends.
Korvettes went out of business years ago and the King of Prussia Mall has
quadrupled in size and has gone pretty upscale ---Bloomingdale's,
Nordstrom's, Nieman Marcus...or as my partner likes to call it, Needless
Markup---but if you mention Korvettes to anyone who grew up in that era and
who loved music, a smile will surely come to their face....
Cheers,
Mark
<<<Still compared to whats at most superstores today - a 70's era TG&Y,
K-Mart,
Wal-Mart, Thrift Drug or Gibsons dept store LP/8-track/Cassette dept would
be
sheer heaven to me. We had good sized stores where I grew up (Bartlesville
Oklahoma - 40 miles north of Tulsa). The thing I remember most was the
cut-out
bins and TG&Y proably had the best. K-Mart had the smallest (mostly tapes)
record department but they did have a good collection of cutout 8-Tracks in
the
$1-50 cent clearance bin. I found out quickly that Quad 8-tracks were the
best
bargan since they had twice the tape, good for recording stuff off the radio
on.>>>
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