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Age Yourself!

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  • kluursK kluurs

    @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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    @kluurs said in Age Yourself!:

    We probably went to the same Korvettes

    Nope. North Riverside.

    "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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    • kluursK kluurs

      @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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      @kluurs said in Age Yourself!:

      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 KG George K

        @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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        #23

        Filene's
        Jordan Marsh
        USSR
        Studebaker

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          #24

          People’s Drug.

          Now CVS.

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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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            • taiwan_girlT taiwan_girl

              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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                Monkey Wards

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                  Monkey Wards

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                  @rainman oh yes!

                  The Brad

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                  • George KG George K

                    @kluurs said in Age Yourself!:

                    We probably went to the same Korvettes

                    Nope. North Riverside.

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                    kluurs
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                    #29

                    @george-k I visited both Korvettes - but as I recall Elmhurst had the better classical collecdtion
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                    • jon-nycJ Online
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                      #30

                      A&P
                      Wags
                      Kinney Shoes
                      Thom McAn
                      Docktor Pet Store
                      Fotomat

                      "You never know what worse luck your bad luck has saved you from."
                      -Cormac McCarthy

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                        A&P
                        Wags
                        Kinney Shoes
                        Thom McAn
                        Docktor Pet Store
                        Fotomat

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                        #31

                        @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 guys

                        Hey 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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                          Remember these ads?

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                          Best of all a "Polaris Nuclear Sub" for $7.

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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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                          • bachophileB bachophile

                            @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 guys

                            Hey 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
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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.

                            "You never know what worse luck your bad luck has saved you from."
                            -Cormac McCarthy

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                            • bachophileB bachophile

                              @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 guys

                              Hey 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
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                              #34

                              @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.

                              "You never know what worse luck your bad luck has saved you from."
                              -Cormac McCarthy

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                              • George KG George K

                                Remember these ads?

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                                Best of all a "Polaris Nuclear Sub" for $7.

                                alt text

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                                #35

                                @george-k said in Age Yourself!:

                                Remember these ads?

                                Familiar

                                I have over 1,000 comic books from that era in boxes just a few feet from where I'm sitting.

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                                • taiwan_girlT taiwan_girl

                                  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.

                                  MikM Away
                                  MikM Away
                                  Mik
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                                  #36

                                  @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

                                  “I am fond of pigs. Dogs look up to us. Cats look down on us. Pigs treat us as equals.” ~Winston S. Churchill

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                                    Buster Brown Shoes.
                                    Magnavox (and other stereo manufacturers)

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                                      Montgomery Wards, BEST toy catalog, Sears, Miller's Outpost, maple coffee table with the glass grapes and the hideous orange sofa. Televisions with legs.

                                      https://tentaclesandwich.blogspot.com

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