[trebejo]

Traded it in on an Advent cassette tape deck on the night Nixon resigned.

If this is the one that missed those 18 minutes, I hope you got a steep discount on it...

[Funnehaha]

Nope, not Audio King. Okay, okay, I'll spill.

The stereo store on Lake and 3rd Avenue South was "The Sound Of Music". That was their first store, then they opened another one on 66th Street across from Southdale, the first shopping mall.

Later, they changed the names of all their stores to...wait for it...BestBuy. Now, I wouldn't buy anything there.

Southdale, which opened in 1956, I believe, had a PA system that was all Altec-based. I had two of their 1569 amps for awhile, when they upgraded their PA years later. I had to have the 70-volt transformers disconnected.

[rcag_ils]

The stereo store on Lake and 3rd Avenue South was "The Sound Of Music". That was their first store, then they opened another one on 66th Street across from Southdale, the first shopping mall.

Not true, the first "The Sound of Music" was opened in Roseville on Snelling, then they might have had another one somewhere. Then in 1988-89 it changed to Bestbuy kiddycorner from their original store on Snelling and Cty Rd B.

[Funnehaha]

Okay, I'll take your word for it. My bad. I never went to St. Paul back in those days. To this day, I stay away from Roseville.

[Bear Heath]

I remember going to Sound of Music in my college days '81-'85. They had a full trade in policy on receivers. A classmate used to buy a receiver,abuse it until it died, then trade it in for the next model up. He did that until he got to the top of the line Pioneer, I think.  Does anyone remember the Schack stores? There was one at Snelling and Grand, which I thought became Audio King, but maybe Audio King just took over that location.