Sansui and it's founder Kōsaku Kikuchi. Apparently women were great at putting together circuit boards.
It was noted that the building's exterior was made similar to their speaker grills https://audio-database.com/SANSUI/speaker/sp-2005-e.html
For my short time in the audio industry I had to build jigs similar to this (from the photos above). I'm not sure what this one is for. I had a mini-mill and used a ton of aluminum with hex-head screws instead of polycarbonate (the clear plastic). One of mine was pretty intricate like this where I had rolls of tiny black stickers that had to be stuck on the sides of the cassette case towards the bottom. Some tape decks used a light to sense the clear leader and this would trigger the end of tape stop. Our cleaning tapes had mesh media that would allow light to go through so we had to put on the black stickers to allow you to do your cleaning without the tape deck shutting down.
A neat photo from 1978, I think it's a German Pressing Plant and it looks like they might be doing quality control of the pressings? If I had to guess by looking at their faces, they've just been given a soon to be released copy of Lovedrive from The Scorpions.
Hello Longman, That Sony Store was really cool, and I have to say what a shame. I remember back in the 1980s when I was in college, a friend took a trip to Japan and toured Sony—he absolutely loved their products. Anyway, did I ever mention that about 20 years ago, a guy from Sony in Japan actually called me because of an email I sent enquiring about a pair of unopened Sony Model SS-7600 or 7660 speakers? I’ll have to check when I’m at my folks’ house, but the ones I have were never imported to the US. I have a 1970s Sony Ampifier model TA-7650 that I will use to drive these I have had that unit since like 1985 . Sincerely Richard
Very nice! I don't know if you ever saw this cool thread with a restro mod Sony CD Player, you may be interested. https://stereo2go.com/forums/threads/my-sony-cdp-555-one-of-a-kind.5475/
I just found much older picture of it https://www.reddit.com/r/cassettefu..._sony_building_which_opened_in_april_1966_at/ The bit in the Reddit title about it featuring 2300 CRT TVs is half accurate. From what I have read they were "Flood Beam" CRTs. My guess would be that they were all the White rectangles on the front. I recall a college lecturer saying that CRTs were actually more efficient light emitters than more common devices like fluorescent tubes. Thinking about it an issue with those is that half the light goes in the wrong direction for an application like this building. I wonder if they could display things on it. In the 1960s a theatre in Bristol had a "news flash" at the top which displayed news, weather, advertisements etc. That was made using standard incandescent lamps as there were usually a few blown. Having wondered how it worked apparently it was a combination of punch cards and switches.
Better than an interior store photo a complete video which I just found It's replacement seems to reflect Sony's current product line i.e. rather sparse
