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In Reply to: RE: That Mac dealer was owned by a guy who then posted by oldmkvi on September 3, 2024 at 08:48:43:
In the early-80s, King Norman was on Clement, near 10th Avenue. It tended to get new toys, before other stores. But in all honesty, if you waited a couple weeks, those new toys would appear at FAO Schwarz, in Union Square. I'm not sure when Jeffreys Toys moved from Ghirardelli Square, to Market near 3rd. Other neighborhood toy stores included Marina Toy Chest and one out at West Portal.
Mostly, we liked Lego, Playmobil, Star Wars, and G.I. Joe.
When we got to middle school (1982), you could wait for the Colma Toys R Us to stock new toys. In Daly City, a place called BEST usually had the lowest prices.
I didn't become an audiophile, until late Spring 1986, when our biology classes went on a field trip to Moss Beach. Getting good/reliable information about audio was hard to come by. Moreover, my parents had no interest in electronics, and no money for it, to boot.
Nevertheless, I'd go with a friend or two, to places like Eber, Federated, Good Guys, Maybrun's, Performance Audio, Whole Earth Access. We did not know about "high-end audio," and did not go to Harmony, Performance Audio, Sounds Alive, and Ultimate Sound, until the end of the 1980s. We never did go to World Of Sound. We did not hit the Oakland/Berkeley stores, until the early-90s, when we were in college.
It's one thing for an audio store to be bad. But it's another, when it steals customers' possessions. That sickens me, makes we wish we had that information, decades ago.
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- We were kids, so we wanted toys - Luminator 17:10:17 09/03/24 (0)
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