Age Yourself!
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@kluurs said in Age Yourself!:
Bought albums at Korvette's who had a great classical selection.
I would go there every weekend, with $3-5 dollars and look through the classical selection every Sunday afternoon. RCA Red Seal and Vanguard were my go-to labels. I would flip through the bins and find something that I'd find interesting.
On one occasion, I picked up a recording of The Rite of Spring. Remember this work was only about 55 years old at the time. I don't remember the performers. I recall putting on my turntable and listening to my AR3 speakers thinking, "Wow! I really don't like this at all. But, it's really really good."
Of course, things have changed in the last few decades.
@George-K We probably went to the same Korvettes - Elmhurst if I remember correctly. I bought some Wilhelm Kempff Beethoven recordings. They also had inexpensive recordings on the Command label. I learned quickly that different musicians made a difference in my enjoyment of the performance. Hans Kahn and his chamber orchestra wasn't the same as Karajan and the Berlin Phil.
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@George-K We probably went to the same Korvettes - Elmhurst if I remember correctly. I bought some Wilhelm Kempff Beethoven recordings. They also had inexpensive recordings on the Command label. I learned quickly that different musicians made a difference in my enjoyment of the performance. Hans Kahn and his chamber orchestra wasn't the same as Karajan and the Berlin Phil.
"Now look here, you Baltic gas passer... " - Mik, 6/14/08
The saying, "Lite is just one damn thing after another," is a gross understatement. The damn things overlap.
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@George-K We probably went to the same Korvettes - Elmhurst if I remember correctly. I bought some Wilhelm Kempff Beethoven recordings. They also had inexpensive recordings on the Command label. I learned quickly that different musicians made a difference in my enjoyment of the performance. Hans Kahn and his chamber orchestra wasn't the same as Karajan and the Berlin Phil.
@kluurs said in Age Yourself!:
Hans Kahn and his chamber orchestra wasn't the same as Karajan and the Berlin Phil.
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@kluurs said in Age Yourself!:
Hans Kahn and his chamber orchestra wasn't the same as Karajan and the Berlin Phil.
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Not really a store, but I remember listening to voice of America on short radio to practice my English.
Many times throughout the day, they would do the news in “special” English, which meant that it was read very slowly, and they used more simple words.
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Not really a store, but I remember listening to voice of America on short radio to practice my English.
Many times throughout the day, they would do the news in “special” English, which meant that it was read very slowly, and they used more simple words.
The Pop Shoppe
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@rainman oh yes!
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@jon-nyc man a & p went defunct in 2015
Let me take you back when nyc was a shopping paradise and no fucking tourists
Gimbels
Two guysHey I remember when the only sacks fifth Avenue in the country was the one on fifth Avenue and had elevator men announcing the floors and what was on each floor.
And right near by was lord and Taylor and bergdoff Goodman.
For cheaper things there was Alexander’s across the street from bloomies.
New York that I grew up in before the tourists arrived.
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@jon-nyc man a & p went defunct in 2015
Let me take you back when nyc was a shopping paradise and no fucking tourists
Gimbels
Two guysHey I remember when the only sacks fifth Avenue in the country was the one on fifth Avenue and had elevator men announcing the floors and what was on each floor.
And right near by was lord and Taylor and bergdoff Goodman.
For cheaper things there was Alexander’s across the street from bloomies.
New York that I grew up in before the tourists arrived.
@bachophile said in Age Yourself!:
@jon-nyc man a & p went defunct in 2015
I know, one of the final stores to close was less than a mile from me.
But still, its heyday was decades ago.
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@jon-nyc man a & p went defunct in 2015
Let me take you back when nyc was a shopping paradise and no fucking tourists
Gimbels
Two guysHey I remember when the only sacks fifth Avenue in the country was the one on fifth Avenue and had elevator men announcing the floors and what was on each floor.
And right near by was lord and Taylor and bergdoff Goodman.
For cheaper things there was Alexander’s across the street from bloomies.
New York that I grew up in before the tourists arrived.
@bachophile said in Age Yourself!:
New York that I grew up in before the tourists arrived.
Yeah right.
I once read a piece from the 1850s complaining that Greenwich Village will never be the same after the recent gentrification.
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Not really a store, but I remember listening to voice of America on short radio to practice my English.
Many times throughout the day, they would do the news in “special” English, which meant that it was read very slowly, and they used more simple words.
@taiwan_girl said in Age Yourself!:
Not really a store, but I remember listening to voice of America on short radio to practice my English.
Many times throughout the day, they would do the news in “special” English, which meant that it was read very slowly, and they used more simple words.
The VOA complex is just a couple miles up from my house. I drive by regularly. When growing up it was this huge array array of broadcast antennae, plus the diamond shaped WLW tower. The WLW tower still stands today and the VOA has been made into a museum.
http://www.voamuseum.org/about/bethany-relay-station-history/?AspxAutoDetectCookieSupport=1
