Your first component that was "special"

It started out...On my Sting-Ray coaster bicycle (1965) with a banana seat and the whole bit taking a decent ride into Jamaica, Queens to the Lafayette Electronics store near the old elevator train. I purchased a complete stereo kit consisting of mini preamp and power amp, turntable, and speakers. It cost $109, saved from a $1/week allowance, and the ride back to my apartment was insane. What was I thinking? This is how I learned to solder, and the damn thing made music! Pure joy.
Kenny

Zavato - Yup, and l'm doing better than my $1/week allowance as well.

BTW - Reading my comments, it's not elevator train but elevated train (L train). Like the lyrics you get wrong in a Rolling Stones song, us kids grew up in apartments with elevators, so to us they were elevator trains. And, still are today.
Kenny

Zavato - My bus route was mainly the Q17 between Flushing and Jamaica. I didn't truly get out until 1982, so rode the #7 as a kid and as an adult working on 34th Street.

Sorry, everyone for temporarily hijacking the thread, but you rarely are able to share such a unique memory with someone else, thousands of miles away and 50 years in the past.
Kenny