![]() When you applied a higher quality sounding source, the audio was extremely good. One last thing for you techies, the stores built in the early 1970's (such as Naperville, IL Ogden Mall Kmart #3066, Harwood Heights, IL #3503 and Bridgeview, IL #4381) orignally had Altec-Lansing amplifiers with high quality speakers throughout the store. This may have been one of the last days where Kmart was in their heyday - really! The tape contains oldies and all sorts of fun facts from 1962. It was a real fun day, the store was packed wall to wall, and I recall that the stores were asked to play the music at a much higher volume. This was a special day at the store where employees spent all night setting up for special promotions and extra excitement. If you do the math assuming that each tape is 30 minutes per side, that's over 800 passes over a tape head each month.įinally, one tape in the collection was from the Kmart 30th anniversary celebration on 3/1/92. That's becuase they ran for 14 hours a day, 7 days a week on auto-reverse. The monthly tapes are very, very, worn and rippled. All of them have advertisements every few songs. Then, the songs became completely mainstream around 1991. The older tapes contain canned elevator music with instrumental renditions of songs. Finally sometime around 1993, satellite programming was intoduced which eliminated the need for these tapes altogether. Until around 1992, the cassettes were rotated monthly. ![]() Anyways, I saved these tapes from the trash during this period and this video shows you my extensive, odd collection. This was background music, or perhaps you could call it elevator music. In the late 1980's and early 1990's, I worked for Kmart behind the service desk and the store played specific pre-recorded cassettes issued by corporate. OK, I have to admit this this is a strange collection.
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