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Korvettes had a very large audio department, their photography department was second to none in our area. But remember competition back then. There were actual photography stores, and there were high end stereo stores, so they had to come close to the quality others were offering in the area, or they would have been laughed out of business..... In the area where our Korvettes was, there was 3 stereo stores, and 4 stereo stores devoted to quality car audio....

I remember going into these stores when I was a kid, (already driving so '1981+) and a stereo guru would be waiting, and lets say you wanted to look at speakers.... I remember several times going in and the store sales people would ask you what you were interested in today...? One time I wanted to look at speakers and they took me over to the speaker room, asked what record I wanted to hear... "Blondie Parallel Lines" I said... He put on the record, and he had this large hand held switching thing and we went through about 9 single speaker sets, 10 2-way speaker sets, then 10 more 3-way speaker sets..... An amazing shopping day.... Same experience could be had for receivers, turn tables, and tape decks..... So that was what Korvettes had for competition, so you know they had to be on top of it....... Before driving I use to get records at the store, they were the best! After they closed, second choice was Caldor, they always had lines of kids buying 45's and LP's each weekend when the sales fliers came out..... Caldor also had photography but not what Korvettes had, and after the competition went away, they dropped most of their chemicals and paper.... They pretty much went to film and processing.....

Photography with developing your own prints, another thing kids today will never experience...