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Blinky · 12-25-2009, 11:11 PM

While we're on the topic of oldskool retailers, you gotta remember the REAL retailer that brought the smack down on Boxing day: A&B!

I was cleaning out my parent's garage earlier this year and saw some crazy stuff from the mid 80s... $1000 speakers going for $150, $500 computers (remember this is the 80s!), crazy shit like $20 for 20" tube TVs that were actually decent. This is the REAL stuff that people used to line up for. Back then, it was more electronics than toys and clothes and all this other retail.

Now we have the drivel that FS pawns off on as as "doorcrashers". They're not.

I still remember the downtown row of electronic/music retailers - A&B and Sam The Record Man were on Seymour... the A&B on Hastings and the one on Marine. Not that long ago that they closed down, either... but the heyday of A&B was long, long ago.

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Blinky Need to Seek Professional Help Join Date: Jun 2006 Location: 604 Posts: 1,049 Thanked 160 Times in 80 Posts Failed 84 Times in 14 Posts	While we're on the topic of oldskool retailers, you gotta remember the REAL retailer that brought the smack down on Boxing day: A&B! I was cleaning out my parent's garage earlier this year and saw some crazy stuff from the mid 80s... $1000 speakers going for $150, $500 computers (remember this is the 80s!), crazy shit like $20 for 20" tube TVs that were actually decent. This is the REAL stuff that people used to line up for. Back then, it was more electronics than toys and clothes and all this other retail. Now we have the drivel that FS pawns off on as as "doorcrashers". They're not. I still remember the downtown row of electronic/music retailers - A&B and Sam The Record Man were on Seymour... the A&B on Hastings and the one on Marine. Not that long ago that they closed down, either... but the heyday of A&B was long, long ago. Last edited by Blinky; 12-25-2009 at 11:17 PM.