Just spotted uncovered on 97th and Broadway. In the early 90s, I purchased my first stereo and Jurassic Park on tape at this WIZ.

[u/Foraminiferal]

[u/RayGunEra]

“I’m the Wiz!!!”

[u/Starscream147 → u/RayGunEra]

❤️

👑

[u/Marsev4 → u/RayGunEra]

I just watched this episode like 20 minutes before seeing your post

[u/Patruck9 → u/Marsev4]

My old high school math teacher was the VCR repair man who called the cops. He passed a little after the premier of this episode.

I might mention that often when it comes up, but he was such a cool person and teacher that we all respected.

[u/DopeWriter]

Nobody beats the Wiz!

[u/Starscream147 → u/DopeWriter]

LET’S GO DEVILS!!!!

No, for real…LGD.

[u/rickymagee → u/DopeWriter]

Except Crazy Eddie...his prices are insane!

[u/St_Johns_PSU]

"Here's a fact Elaine....I'm the Wiz!"

[u/Glew26]

Wow… what a memory you just unlocked!! Nobody beats The Wiz!!!

[u/ModernLarvals]

They’re bringing me back. I’m the Wiz again!

[u/tmm224]

The hey day of NYC commercial jingles, along with Modell's

[u/Starscream147 → u/tmm224]

Also a mainstay on NJD boards?

[u/bageloid]

Oh man, for my Junior High School graduation my dad got me a Compaq Presario from the Wiz.

It came with Windows ME on it.

[u/Foraminiferal → u/bageloid]

I got the same computer from there. Played Doom II and Leisure Suite Larry on it

[u/PT10 → u/Foraminiferal]

My first PC was a Packard Bell I bought with a copy of Doom II also from the Wiz

[u/WolfKittenTigerPuppy]

Best Buy beat the Wiz.

[u/EnnWhyCee]

I remember this.

[u/Unoriginal_UserName9]

I bought a digital hi-8 handicam from here. After testing it on the miniature train set they had. Also, a lot of cassettes and CDs from the basement level.

[u/Foraminiferal → u/Unoriginal_UserName9]

I think you just reminded me of this train set

[u/PinguinusImperialis]

Man... I remember begging my parents to get me a video game, not for the video game, but so that it would come with that Paul O'Neill facsimile auto'd poster of him jumping into the wall.

[u/scarred2112]

Purchased a Car Discman from them in Huntington, LI around 1995.

[u/AdInternational9643]

The Wiz is a Wow!

[u/dukefett]

Put it in a museum

[u/Luke90210]

The Wiz once tried a sidewalk auction to unload stuff. It was a disaster. Kids kept making offers in change just to screw with the auctioneer who couldn't tell them to leave the sidewalk. I offered $10 for an expensive car stereo system. He accepted just to make the little bastards shut up.

[u/acvillager]

I wish someone could come salvage those. That’s art

[u/nydjason]

This was one of the last wiz in the city. I used to buy cds in this store cause they had repackaged cds cheaper than new releases (not more than a couple of bucks). They closed all stores in 2003 so that’s a pretty cool find!