I was shopping in Cleveland in the late 70s for some high-end stereo gear. A really ugly, really scrawny black dude walks into the stereo store and mumbles something to me. I said “Huh?” He mumbled slightly more clearly, but still unintelligible. I said “Speak clearly” and he replied “Wanna get physical?”
Butthole City indeed. Buying that stereo gear was my first and last experience in Cleveland.
>I was shopping in Cleveland in the late 70s for some high-end stereo gear.
The only high-end audio store in Cleveland proper was Audio Craft, located at 39th and Carnegie. A typical urban working-class neighborhood looking a little rough but mostly harmless. Still, I could certainly see something like the event you relate happening there.
They got bought out somewhere along the line, closed all their stores and moved to a suburb and now sell very high-end home theater and corporate A-V systems.