Penncrest Diamond Head

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My wife was seventeen when we met in high school and we married three years later while in college. About the only possessions that we had were our record collections and a car. Our first “credit” purchase together (for our $85 a month apartment) was a Penncrest Stereo MultiPlex which we purchased in the fall of 1970 at J.C. Penney in Denton, Texas. It cost us just over $100 which was a staggering amount considering I was making $2.00 an hour part-time. During its life, it has served as our main entertainment center, spent years in various attics, and later served time as our ranch shop radio. It’s amazing that it still plays after all the moisture/humidity, sawdust, etc. that it has been exposed to here in Texas. Not to mention no surge protector, ever.

“Well, she was just seventeen
You know what I mean
And the way she looked
Was way beyond compare…”

I wanted to do a video of the “I Saw Her Standing There” cut from my wife’s 1964 “introducing THE BEATLES” album, but, of course, I ran into “copyright” problems. I thought that a 56-year-old album playing on a 50-year-old record player owned by a couple that has been married for 50 years would be pretty cool. Instead, I will go with The Ventures 1965 hit “Diamond Head”. The Ventures….proof that you can sell over 100 million records and never have a #1 hit in the U.S.A. They did hit #1 in Japan and were huge in Iran.

Like my knees on a cold morning, the “On-Volume” knob gives off a few “pops and crackles” before it gets settled in and the stereo works when it feels like it, but altogether we’re all doing pretty good for our age.

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