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In Reply to: Market & Castro had a Pacific Stereo for many years... posted by musetap on March 31, 2025 at 11:48:40:
In the 1970s, my family had friends, who lived in the housing projects in or near North Point. My family's black & white TV gave out, and my dad went to a place called something like "Consumer Distributors." Not sure if it was from CD itself, but my dad bought replacement vacuum tubes. I was barely in elementary school, but do recall the yellow-and-back Sylvania boxes.
Perhaps as late as 1979, my dad went out to a Pacific Stereo, in Colma or Daly City. Lined up for repair was what I later learned to be an Audio Research vacuum tube amp.
But it wasn't until sophomore year (1986-87) of high school, when a few classmates, though without any money, became interested in audio, first with portables. The default was to go to The Good Guys. After school, we'd take MUNI Metro, get off at Van Ness station, and take a bus up to Sutter/Bush.
Had we continued up Van Ness, we *think* there was a store called World Of Sound. This store supposedly carried NAD, a brand some of our parents had or were familiar with.
As the school year progressed, we'd venture out to Whole Earth Access. There, my friends really, really, really wanted the Proton radio and a Sony Pro Walkman.
I worked in the schools library, and kept getting distracted by Sports Illustrated and Stereo Review. From the latter, I caught wind of lesser-known Audio, Hi-Fi Choice, Stereophile, and The Absolute Sound magazines.
On a sleepy early 1987 day, the platinum blonde Jill sauntered into Latin class. Her enthusiastic singing of Glass Tiger's "Someday" got us going. Somehow, the discussion got sidetracked, and our teacher, Dr. Nogara, said that his home stereo had Nakamichi. At the time, San Francisco Stereo Plus carried Nakamichi. And that's how the seeds got planted in our minds.
After school, we'd take MUNI Metro, get off at Castro Street station, and go to Eber. Salesmen didn't really know how to approach or treat us high school kids. Behind a sliding glass door was a room for the rich customers. That room housed the Sony ES and Infinity Kappa gear. My friend Danny would come back with his mom, and Eber did not let them into that back room. But when Danny came with his dad, they were indeed let into that back room.
Late in the Spring 1987 semester, I'd come back, with my friends Andy, Barbra, and Theresa. Just like other friends before him, Andy really, really, really lusted after the Sony Pro Walkmen. The larger and more expensive model actually had Dolby C. Afterward, we walked across Market, and went to the small Tower Records. There, Theresa bought Level 42's Running In The Family CD. But no, we did not know that, at one time, that area had a Pacific Stereo. Oh well, near the Colma Pacific Stereo was a Toys R Us, which kept me and my brother happy :-)
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