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I think it is great that the locations of stores sections exists. I think it is a classic example of the wisdom of crowds, and seems the kind of knowledge that, unless you found the company's bankruptcy archives, no other source on the planet would ever have taken the time to document even to a 80%
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When I was small in the 60's & 70's I had an Aunt that worked at the
Paramus, NJ Korvette's. She told me as others did back in those days that the eight letters of Korvette were taken from one letter of each of the founding eight partners names. I'm really glad this article put that theory to
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Korvette was selling computer speakers in 1980. I bought stuff from their audio department in West Orange, NJ, in the mid-late 1960s, including a Sony reel-to-reel recorder and many reels of tape (Scotch and Kodak, plus their house brand, the name of which I no longer remember.)
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I find it interesting, or can I identify a former occupant by building design. I think
Rockford, IL could have been another location - by style of building (south side of the city) I don't remember the street names. I know of no other discount store that used stone in it's store design, though
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italic text version of the name on their unique at the time letter priced tags for the record department. I do have a photo copy which would not be usable with the stone used on the front of the store type design.
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Anyone have any pictures. Only way I could get something fair use would be take a picture of the instruction manual of the XAM television and the price tag of a record that had the modernized
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