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.
"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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GC Murphy’s
Me/rry/Christmas
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Woolworth's.
Proud supporter of Plan 2525. Everything you think, do and say will be in the pill you took today.
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@doctor-phibes Kresge's and Korvette.
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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.
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"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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"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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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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The Pop Shoppe
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A&P
Wags
Kinney Shoes
Thom McAn
Docktor Pet Store
FotomatDON’T let them eat cake.
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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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"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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@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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@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.
