Allied Radio, Pacific Stereo, Olson Electronics. These are the chains I remember (does Circuit City count?). Never heard of CMC. What region did they serve?
Anyone Remeber CMC Stereo?
The recent thread about the Radio Shack 1990 catalog brought back a lot of memories and made me wish we still had brick and mortar stores as an option. Another popular chain back in the day was CMC Stereo stores, that sold mostly mid-fi products, with product lines like Pioneer, Kenwood, and Technics. They were also into car stereo big-time, and did thousands of after-market installs. Amazingly, I still have their catalog from 1976 that I picked up at one of their stores in Atlanta, where I lived at the time. The only brick and mortar store in Atlanta that is still in business from that era is Hi-Fi Buys, where I picked up a Thorens TD-160 in 1975 or thereabouts.
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