Over by the milk box, I was amused to find nostalgic pool floats echoing a similar era to the store's decor! I don't really understand why the cassette tape has been making such a comeback in recent years, but if you're someone with more nostalgia for them, apparently you can float around the pool on a giant teal cassette. (I was a kid during the period of time when cassettes were still relevant, but only as a super low-end cheap sort of thing, not anything people really wanted to use.) The dairy box itself seems a little odd -- it appears to be a proper walk-in (with rolling racks behind the doors), but with a part sticking out onto the salesfloor that's the same height as normal non-walk-in cases. All of the doors look like they're about to fall off of their hinges too!
Ha, that's the wrong music medium if one wants to float on water! Actual CDs actually float on water, and water won't damage them (within reason, of course). A cassette tape, well, not so much!
ReplyDeleteI'm actually within an arm's reach of two high-end cassette decks, a 3-head Luxman from 1989 and a 3-head Denon, also from 1989. I have a Nakamichi cassette deck, once again from 1989, in another room (Nakamichi is generally considered to be the greatest name in cassette decks). Now, even with these golden cassette decks, I really don't use cassettes all that often these days, but at least I can get as close to Hi-Fi as one can get with cassettes with the equipment I have!
Two of the three cassette decks mentioned above were from a now-closed Goodwill located in a former Randall's turned former Albertsons. The Randall's only lasted a couple of years, and the Albertsons only lasted a couple of years. It was the first Albertsons to close in the Houston area. The other cassette deck was from a Safeway-era Randall's which opened in ~2002 and closed in 2005, and then turned into a Goodwill. I suppose I owe my cassette deck collection to short-lived Randall's, Safeway-Randall's, and Albertsons!