Zayre, where I got my CEC from in 1984...

[baddboybill]

Got it for $99.95 . Took me 3 hours to decide between the CEC OL7540 and the Magnavox D8443, both were same price on sale!!

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[ledmeter]

Awesome! Pity you didn't grab both! I love that secondary deck.

 

[baddboybill]

Awesome! Pity you didn't grab both! I love that secondary deck.

At the time I wasn't quite 16 so I only had a paper stand job on weekend making about $17 for 15 hrs worth of work each weekend. I got $1 an hour plus $1 bonus per day and he bought me food and drink....

The kids nowadays are so lazy... I worked for barely nothing since 12 years old


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[MasterBlaster84]

Awesome! Pity you didn't grab both! I love that secondary deck.

At the time I wasn't quite 16 so I only had a paper stand job on weekend making about $17 for 15 hrs worth of work each weekend. I got $1 an hour plus $1 bonus per day and he bought me food and drink....

The kids nowadays are so lazy... I worked for barely nothing since 12 years old


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So true bill the kids I see are damn lazy, they spend all their time playing video games and being caged by their parents.
Me and many of my friends had paper routes and made our own spending cash, enough cash that we were never home. I had paper routes of up to 350 papers that I delivered before going to school every morning for almost 5 years. I don't know a single kid now who does anything like this, damn few have any kind of a job at all nor do they want one.

 

[Old school Scott]

At the time I wasn't quite 16 so I only had a paper stand job on weekend making about $17 for 15 hrs worth of work each weekend. I got $1 an hour plus $1 bonus per day and he bought me food and drink....

Thanks for breaking it down!
I had a paper route as well.
Boomboxes were quite an investment for a young person in the early 80s.

Cheers OSS

 

[-GZ-]

Wow. Zayre's. Talk about a blast from the past! Haven't heard that name in over 20 years! Used to go there with my pops. Thanks for that, bill!

 

[floyd]

yep we used to go to zayre, i got many members only jackets there , i wish those were still in style even though i'm not

 

[Lasonic TRC-920]

At the time I wasn't quite 16 so I only had a paper stand job on weekend making about $17 for 15 hrs worth of work each weekend. I got $1 an hour plus $1 bonus per day and he bought me food and drink....

Thanks for breaking it down!
I had a paper route as well.
Boomboxes were quite an investment for a young person in the early 80s.

Cheers OSS

Totally, I dragged my folks lawn mower around the neighborhood, when I saw a house that had a shaggy lawn, I went up and knocked on the door and offered my services. Must have put 50 miles on those wheels. Made between $2 & $5 a lawn depending on the size of the lawn. Thankfully I didn't have to buy my own gas, since I used to siphon it out of the old mans dune buggy I can still taste the gasoline

But you didn't have to motivate me, Every day after a long day at the office mowing lawns, I would skateboard over to the Radio Shack and drool over the new SCR-8. Gawd she was beautiful in the eyes of a 15 year old The thought of that radio got me up early every morning that summer to go find some new lawns to mow!

For sure, today's kids got it good....We were real entrepreneurs back in the day

 

[baddboybill]

This is a very cool thread....as we can all share our working experience just so we could go out and buy our Boomers !!!

I drooled over many boxes in the day including the Conion C100 which I seen at Woolworths and the VZ 2000 I saw at District Furniture

But of course $1 an hour wasn't gonna get much more than the CEC I got since it would have taken me a lifetime to save $400- $1200 for the huge boxes!!!

Plus I bought many digital watches and Walkman's....




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[jaetee]

Wow, I remember Zayre! And Montgomery Ward's "Electrick Avenue" was another favorite place to visit.

And I know what you mean about kids nowadays and their ambition, or rather their lack thereof...

I bagged groceries for tips at the military commisary on weekends and worked "summer hire" jobs set up specifically for the military kids overseas at the time. I confess that my childhood GF-9292 was a gift from my parents, but I paid for all of my D-cells, tapes & records. And that money I made on weekends and during the summer was saved up in batches and went towards a Kenwood Integrated Amp & Equalizer, Pioneer tape deck & speakers & turntable.

At 16 years old I had a KILLER component system that was better than what most adults had at the time. (I need to dig through my pics and find one that I know is in a box somewhere... )