Some nostalgia:



I think my first stereo was in that commercial!

Do you guys remember Korvettes' record department's "wall of imports" with Jem and Peters International stickers on all the sleeves?

Wow Linda, this totally made my night!

My earliest record buying experiences were at Korvette's, on Shore Parkway in Brooklyn, NY. I got my first portable phonograph from there as well: an orange & white colored Korsonic table top record player that was so small, when it played LP's, they stuck out about 10" from the unit. The speaker was about the size of a half dollar. I believe I also saw my first "boom box" in that commercial: A mono Sanyo AM/FM cassette player.

Thanks for the stroll down memory lane

Yikes-that made me wince! Hopefully, there are no Kiddie City, Two Guys, Rickels, Clover or Geno's commercials (remember Geno's? They were the ones who used to serve Kentucky Fried Chicken before KFC ever existed. And, their food was worse than Jack In The Box!).

Wow! When I was a kid, my Dad used to drag the family into Korvettes to look for records. As I recall, it was pretty much the only game in town in the Chicago suburbs where I grew up. My Mom would take my Sister and head for housewares, I'd go directly to the toys department and my Dad would spend what seemed like endless amounts of time flipping through records. I guess the acorn didn't fall that far from the tree.

My first exposure to Korvette's was when I moved to Chicago in 1973. The store on Dempster had a pretty good selection of LPs and the most you paid was $2.99 when everyone else was charging $3.99, $4.99 or even $5.49. I'd always walk out with an armload. Now most of those LPs are sitting in boxes in the garage.

When I was a kid, they were my go to store for vinyl (other than Crazy Eddie "...212-648-1196!!!", Alexanders, Two Guys...).

Shore Parkway (Ceasars Bay), Brooklyn
Next to Staten Island Mall, in the Pergament shopping center
34th Street, NYC

I remember the shopping bags with the hangar on them, and "The Other Korvettes" plastered on it.

When my best friend in high school got his driver's license, we would head for the Green Acres mall every weekend "In pursuit of vinyl!!" Korvettes always had the new, hot releases on sale for $2.99. Alexanders was in the mall too, and they had a pretty extensive selection of albums, most priced $3.99 or less.

Later, in the late 70s, Jimmy's Music World opened a store right in Oceanside. I'd be in there every time I was home from college. Single LPs were $2.99-$3.99, and doubles were $4.99. Those were the days!

Bought more than my share at the Korvettes on rte 22 in Watchung, NJ . I ventured there by car (as a passenger and driver) by bus, & even by bike. For a department store they seemed to have a great selection. I remember getting new releases for 4.99 and back catalog stuff for 3.99 as late as 1980.

Wow. Korvettes!

Bought my first Doors album at a Korvettes.

Fuck I'm old.

I bought most of my first albums at Alexanders' on Queens Boulevard. Remember the price codes (like "E")?

I remember buying Aerosmith "Rocks" at Korvettes. It had a Grammy Award sticker on the album.

John Lennon mentions Korvettes by name as one of the stores where a particular album can be bought in a live commercial he did during his stint as a DJ on WNEW.

Oy... Alexander's... I remember them well...

Thanks, Linda, for that trip down memory lane.

Back in the day (before the rise of the music superstores), I bought all of my records from Korvettes' and Alexanders' for $2.99, $3.99, and $4.99.

Since this was back when I lived in Brooklyn, my two favorite stores of choice were Korvettes' in Union Square, N.Y.C., and Alexanders' in Kings Plaza, Brooklyn.

Did you ever get knishes from Shatzkin's in Kings Plaza? I miss those. Burger-filled knishes, hotdog-filled knishes, pizza-filled knishes.

How about this? Remember "Record World And The Record Shops At TSS"? What an uniweldy name! I recall these commercials, but don't recall ever actually shopping there:

We had a TSS (Times Square Store, IIRC) right in Oceanside. It was a huge department store with a pretty good record dept. Went out of business sometime in the early 80s (I remember buying an import 12" single of "Under Pressure" there). It was also my prime source for 45s during the mid and late 70s.

I think Sam Goodies or Crazy Eddies did this as well, very smart actually.

I remember the gold Grammy Award sticker on Aerosmith Rocks and a few other albums.

The Zeppelin albums always had nice stickers.

OMG! This is a total trip down memory lane! Not only do I remember the stuffed Knishes, I also flashed back to another music buying experience at Kings Plaza: Run to Sam Goody on the second floor to get my vinyl fix, then go downstairs to Nathan's, and finish it off with a trip to the pet store next to Nathan's to look at the puppys and kitties.

Looking back on it, the proximity of Nathan's to the pet store was a little unsettling.

For a transplanted New Yorker now living in California, this has been a wonderful thread.

Here, Pete ~ looks like Kings Plaza has gone seriously upscale since we used to hang out here:

http://www.kingsplazaonline.com

(Both Goody and Shatzkin's are long gone.)

Same for Jimbo's beloved Green Acres:

http://www.greenacresmallonline.com

I would try to hit the Korvette's at the Essex Green Shopping Center in West Orange, New Jersey, at least once a week -- with my family at first and later, when I got my license, on my own. I can still picture the record department after 45 (ouch!) years. And I still have some of the LPs I bought there in the back of my storage closet - price codes and all.

Fond memories indeed.

I grew up in the apartment building across the street from the other Shatzkins on Emmons Ave. in Sheepshead Bay.

Now I know why I was an obese kid...

Sadly, it's a lesson that the music industry seems to have forgotten. Seeing a standard of, say, $9.99 for new single-disc releases would be a real coup, but that ship has sailed...