How America's Biggest Electronics Store Destroyed Itself

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It started with a haircut — a barber’s remark in 1949 that sent one man into a brand-new business. Within a few decades it had grown into one of the biggest names in American electronics, the place where ordinary people went to hear real hi-fi: walls of receivers and speakers, and staff who knew the difference between them. Then, over just six years, the company took itself apart from the inside — through decisions that each looked perfectly sensible on paper. This is the full story of how it rose, what it meant for anyone who cared about sound, and the strange afterlife of a name that refused to die. If you ever bought your first stereo at a store like this, the comments are the place to tell that story.