"Fallen Flags"- Audio store version

[BOUXY]

Many I can't remember but here are a few I can who carried all the major well known Vintage brands back then and still today:
American Hi-Fi
Advance Electronics
Stefankos Stereos
James Croft and Sons Audio
Brian Reimer Audio
Creative Audio

 

[PoppaSteve]

I forgot about that little store on Lyndale. I don't recall it being a Sound Center. Wasn't it somebody's first name and then "Stereo"? It was a woman's name as I recall.

Bringing back the dead, here. I was talking to a guy from work, and he remembered that the store on Lyndale was called Colleen's Place. He was in there and ran into Donald L. Kliewer, the man behind DLK. Don wasn't happy with the way DLK was being run, so he started another company, and my friend bought a pair of these new speakers from the store.

 

[hifitommy]

in the san fernando valley alone were"

woodland stereo-walt, jim and bruce lewsadder, marc schifter

music and sound-mel schilling, pj, marc schifter

sound center-paul carvel

horthridge audio-marc silver, jay negrin

audio den-vidar, mark smith, paul squillo, mike meyers

paris audio-cant remember the names

i spent much time in each of these and miss them all.

 

[electronjohn]

Bringing back the dead, here. I was talking to a guy from work, and he remembered that the store on Lyndale was called Colleen's Place. He was in there and ran into Donald L. Kliewer, the man behind DLK. Don wasn't happy with the way DLK was being run, so he started another company, and my friend bought a pair of these new speakers from the store.

Don did a heckuva job with DLKs...wonder what brand was on his subsequent designs?

 

[1tumbleweed]

Going waaaaaay back in Baltimore:

Kann-Ellert Electronics on TV Hill, right next to WBAL
Wholesale Radio on...hmmm...Baltimore St.?
High Fidelity House on Deepdene Rd. - eventually became part of Stereo Discounters
Sirkis Music on Reisterstown Rd.
A small little shop on 25th Street in Charles Village...actually in an old brownstone, where I bought my first Garrard record changer - a used RC-80.

In DC:
Dixie HiFi - mostly mail order, but had a little storefront, too.
Custom HiFi - Bethesda, Silver Spring, Iverson Mall and a few other places - morphed into Circuit City in the mid '70s...and we all know how that turned out...
There was also a great little high end shop on a side street in Bethesda, can't remember the name.
And then of course there was Myer/Emco...may they rest in peace...

 

[Anubis]

RSL = Rogers Sound Labs - That store was great, I really miss it. They had everything for every budget and they were pretty selective in what they carried and there were a couple of guys there who knew what they were talking about. They also had what I called "the rich people's room". I got my first decent peices of gear there.

The Federated Group with good ol Fred Federated = I just miss the zany commercials. The store carried mostly cheap stuff. Although at the time they were around it was what I could save up for and get and I did get my first component system there.

I can't recall any others at the moment.