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re: New Generation Stores What were they like?
Posted on 3/20/23 at 9:55 am to TexasTiger89
Posted on 3/20/23 at 9:55 am to TexasTiger89
Pretty sad that most of Florida Blvd is a dump now. Payday loans and run down shopping centers.
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Posted on 3/20/23 at 9:56 am to Tempratt
Kind of like a Best Buy but not.
Video games, computer games, music (records, CDs, tapes), instruments, stereo equipment, computers, etc.
It used to be a fun place to be if only due to having various stuff set up as demos.
And IIRC the guy who owned it was Ronnie from Hoppers.
Video games, computer games, music (records, CDs, tapes), instruments, stereo equipment, computers, etc.
It used to be a fun place to be if only due to having various stuff set up as demos.
And IIRC the guy who owned it was Ronnie from Hoppers.
Posted on 3/20/23 at 9:56 am to Bullfrog
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I liked their receipts that instead of a line for “Taxes” it was “Government’s Bite” or similar.
I had forgotten about that. Those dudes were pretty whacky. Their commercials were off the wall. But they had some fine equipment, and not sure how they could sell it so cheap. I used to love shopping their equipment. Both home and car.
Posted on 3/20/23 at 9:58 am to Tempratt
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Or were they just like Best Buy?
Even if they were like Best Buy, which they kind of were, it was everything else that was different. Walmart wasn't a thing. You could get some electronics at KMart and the department stores, and there were probably more options in the Sears catalog, but there weren't really any other specialty electronics stores in Baton Rouge.
If you wanted a TV, appliance, or almost any consumer electronics device, it was the place to go. I would imagine Best Buy and Circuit City started out as similar regional stores that got successful enough to go national.
This post was edited on 3/20/23 at 9:58 am
Posted on 3/20/23 at 9:58 am to Summerchild
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I would often go just to peruse the new albums…yes, vinyl albums.
I remember buying The Wraith soundtrack and Tom Petty on vinyl from there as a kid.
Posted on 3/20/23 at 9:58 am to teke184
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And IIRC the guy who owned it was Ronnie from Hoppers.
I think he may have had a hand in it, but it was mostly his two brothers who ran the place.
Posted on 3/20/23 at 9:58 am to Festus
They supposedly had a lot of knockoff stuff or things that had fallen off the back of a truck.
My mother insists the tapes she bought from them to send my dad in Vietnam were home dubs they made in the back passed off as real rather than the real deal.
My mother insists the tapes she bought from them to send my dad in Vietnam were home dubs they made in the back passed off as real rather than the real deal.
Posted on 3/20/23 at 10:01 am to shutterspeed
quote:Still have it. I also bought the first U2 Joshua Tree album they ever sold right after it came off the delivery truck.
The Wraith soundtrack
Posted on 3/20/23 at 10:01 am to teke184
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They supposedly had a lot of knockoff stuff or things that had fallen off the back of a truck.
Could be. But I have a hard time believing they were knocking off Pioneer, Jensen, Marantz. But it's possible. Everything I ever bought from them was good stuff, nothing cheap. In my car, had the Pioneer stereo with 8 track, Jensen TRIAXLE speakers, and a Marantz equalizer.
But I can much more believe they might have been dubbing music and reselling.
Posted on 3/20/23 at 10:06 am to Festus
Besides the classic one at Florida and Sharp, they also relocated twice IIRC.
Once was to Staring and Perkins, which had been the Howard Bros hardware store. They subsequently moved to where Conn’s is / was off Airline by old Woman’s Hospital, where they finally liquidated everything in the 90s when they closed.
Once was to Staring and Perkins, which had been the Howard Bros hardware store. They subsequently moved to where Conn’s is / was off Airline by old Woman’s Hospital, where they finally liquidated everything in the 90s when they closed.
Posted on 3/20/23 at 10:06 am to Bullfrog
They had one on Starring Lane for a while in the old Howard Bros building.
Posted on 3/20/23 at 10:10 am to ItzMe1972
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There was one in Lafayette on University. It was right across from campus, close to the old Hoppers.
Then they moved down Johnston past the mall if memory serves me correctly.
Your memory aligns with mine. That doesn't mean we are right, it could mean we are both faulty in the same way
Posted on 3/20/23 at 10:14 am to Bullfrog
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Still have it.
Favorite album track. Same time. Go!
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"Heart Vs Head" - Stan Bush
Posted on 3/20/23 at 10:18 am to Tempratt
Now that’s a name I haven’t heard in a long time.
Posted on 3/20/23 at 10:27 am to shutterspeed
I bought this (Atari 520 ST) at the Lafayette location in 1987.
Located past Acadiana Mall, Catfish Shack (or Hole?), and Cock of the Walk (had half of the front end of a car buried in the ground)
Back then, it seemed like it was located in the middle of nowhere.
Located past Acadiana Mall, Catfish Shack (or Hole?), and Cock of the Walk (had half of the front end of a car buried in the ground)
Back then, it seemed like it was located in the middle of nowhere.
Posted on 3/20/23 at 10:34 am to Captain Lafitte
It was almost a social gathering point. The car stereo stuff and vcr/laser disc area. I’ll always remember trying to rent a decent movie from there.
My dad bought an approx 50 lb magnavox vcr from new gen. Our first movie on tape was alien.
My dad bought an approx 50 lb magnavox vcr from new gen. Our first movie on tape was alien.
Posted on 3/20/23 at 10:50 am to Tempratt
The one of Florida Blvd had some very strict security. I went with my brother when he purchased the then new Ratt album “Invasion of Your Privacy”. When we were leaving, a guard at the door patted us down before we walked through a security scanner and then demanded to search my mother’s purse.
We didn’t go there much after that.
Decent selection of records and tapes though.
We didn’t go there much after that.
Decent selection of records and tapes though.
Posted on 3/20/23 at 10:51 am to ItzMe1972
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Jensen 6X9 car speakers were the bomb!
They were, till I got these.
Posted on 3/20/23 at 11:13 am to chryso
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Buying a TV was something you saved up for.
Should be that way.
Posted on 3/20/23 at 11:21 am to TexasTiger89
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In high school I worked at the McDonalds by the Florida Blvd store.
With Jay Plunkett & Mike Gillis?
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