Anyone remember Square Deal in Patchogue L.I. ??

same here,miss working there

Boy do I remember that store, I remember the store on Main Street before they moved. Bought my first turntable there it was a Panasonic mini changer and Mike Brody sold it to me...great guy.

I worked there for quite a few years on and off doing car stereo installations., in fact I'm still using my ADS 980 speakers and my Tandburg 3006 A power amp. One bad thing working at that  place was as fast as you got paid you would give it back to them in spades buying equipment. 

Every time something new came out like speakers, a new receiver, or something Mike Brody would be playing with it in the sound room. Of course you had to have it what ever it was so your old, (and I do use that term loosely) most of the time the equipment you were trading in was only a couple of months old and in the used room it went. I remember changing my car stereo so much I should have installed it with Vecro.

 How many of you remember the Sound Mobile a 68 Mercury Cougar with the nose cut off. Used to sit in the middle of the store had every car stereo they sold mounted in it. Later they built the car stereo display and got rid of the car. Ahhhh those were the days, I can go on forever.

Visiting  SQUARE DEAL in the 70s with a buddy was a weekly venture.....We made a special trip to hear the new ARs and Hitachi classG  receivers...I remember Steve and his partner .....They were like two madmen scientists of audio....it was always like...HEY...Lets go o Square Deal!...itwas a ride from Deer Park.but we managed to :entertain ourselves for the trip....Oh and a stop at Hardees or Wetsons to boot!:)

Yah, bought a few things from there, my favorite being a KLH all-in-one system I got in 1974 or so. I remember demos of the "new" Dahlquist DQ-10 and Tandberg stuff. I was a bit of a gypsy then, and ended up in the Navy, but I always stopped by when possible to see what was new. I smelled trouble when "The Wiz" moved in nearby.

I used to frequent them, Designatron and the Audio Den as well as some other far-flung shops in Nassau county. There was a nice store in or around Huntington too where I heard Brothers in Arms for the first time.

Having lived in Houston, San Diego, Bangor (where I contracted the HiFi jones), Norfolk and even Salina, KS, I sampled many shops and miss them all. Great people, great equipment. I wish I had better income and more time to hang around those places when I had the chance.

I now live in Northern NJ and have access to SkyFi, Audio Connection and all of the great Manhattan dealers, but end up buying from Crutchfield and the like. It's just not the same. 

Greetings and salutations from wherever I am today. 

Funny i lived over in Oakdale and never.when in to the shop.For some reason I thought it was just car stereo  stuff.