(and a little 50s)
The Two Guys store in Hackensack - the place for all of your rock'n'roll needs (as long as your rock'n'roll needs didn't go beyond 45rpm record boxes). Did they even sell 45s there? I bought mine from the Teaneck Record Shop.
I have 5 record boxes that are just totally jammed with 45s. I dug them out recently to find something and saw that two of them came from Two Guys...............and that one of them was inscribed by a girl whose name looks like "Haeey", but was really "Holly" - a 6-foot tall HHS student I dated who lived in Maywood (she's riding shotgun in the second picture here:
http://www.hackensacknow.org/index.php/topic,911.)
The big box with the 17 band names was dominated by the Four Seasons, the Beach Boys, The Stones, and the Beatles. The front is kinda bowed from the overstuffed contents. I'm surprised that it didn't explode decades ago.
And to be fair, I DID buy something else music-related from Two Guys in the late 60s because it was brand new and didn't exist elsewhere.
I already had a 12-disc, drop-down 45rpm (basically, upside-down) record player in my car (plus a reverb that drove me nuts every time I hit a bump, but sounded great in the nightly up-and-down mass cruise of Main St), but the next big thing was on the horizon.....................and it wasn't an 8-track cassette player. It was a very short-lived FOUR-track tape player that almost no one remembers (and for good reason).
Two Guys was the first to sell them around here and my friend Bruce and I were the first two people to buy them (and maybe the only people who bought them). But they didn't sell the tapes. The only place around here that did was an audio store on Market St in Saddle Brook................and the selection was miniscule.
I think there were maybe a dozen choices and they were primarily compilations from the 50s. This is why the 8-track system seemed heavenly when it arrived.
I wonder how many other collections of 45s from back then are buried in homes around town. I can't be the only one.
