This is a series of posts that will talk about my favorite stores that no longer exist.
Cobb Center was a shopping mall in Smyrna, Georgia, originally opened as the Cobb County Shopping Center on August 15, 1963, making it the second mall built in Georgia. Inside they had a rare, Milton Bradley retail store! During the 1950s, 1960s, and 1970s, Milton Bradley was far more than a board game publisher,
Airing on NBC for two seasons (58 episodes), the show chronicled the fictional misadventures of a struggling rock band.
The Monkees was my favorite sitcom as a child. Before video recording, I would use my Radio Shack Cassette Recorder to capture the audio of each episode. I didn’t have an external microphone, so I would stack up books and place the recorder by the TV speaker. I would then re-play the tape over and over and sing along to each episode’s songs.
Play the drum a little louder, Tell me I can live without her, If I only listen to the band.
Today a part of me was ripped away. In my childhood, I was a huge Monkees fan. I watched every episode as they aired and recorded the audio of each with my Radio Shack cassette recorder. Following the show, I would play that tape over and over and over and over.
