Ahhh, more cross-pollinating between Audities and Paisley Pop.
But this is such a great thread, I can't resist.

My first *real* stereo was a present for my 13th birthday in 1983. I 
picked it out of the JC Penney catalogue, and then went with my Dad (I 
think) to pick it up from the Penney's at the Westfarms Mall in West 
Hartford, Conn.
It had a built-in turntable, cassette player, and wait, an 8-track 
player (!), and two mid-sized speakers with a bass response I still 
haven't been able to find anywhere else since.
I have no idea what happened to it. I think it may have been sold at a 
tag sale after I upgraded myself to a component system from Sound 
Playground in 1986!

And Mike, it's funny you should mention G.Fox. For some reason, the 
G.Fox flagship store in downtown Hartford had the coolest record 
department in the world back in 1984-85. I bought "Nothing Is Sacred," 
by The Lords of the New Church there, and couldn't believe I found it 
in such a fussy store.

John





On Saturday, February 22, 2003, at 09:37 AM, MBaroneO@aol.com wrote:

> Great thread!
> I got my first stereo with my own money that I had earned from my 
> first job
> working in
> G. FOX record department (!!what a free for all!!).
> I went to my local Fred Locke Stereo (rememer them?) and got a Harmon 
> Kardon
> 730
> stereo reciever, Techniques SL1900 turntable and a pair of Genesis 
> Research
> loudspeakers.  Man, that stereo ROCKED and for sentimental reasons I 
> still
> have it all packed away.
> The HK still works fine by the way.  Then I had a record vaccum which 
> was
> called a VP1 so playing a record was like a surgical procedure.  What 
> a freak
> I was
>
> MB
>
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