Still have several good working Pickering cartridges including one with a Shibata stylus for my CD-4 vinyl.
Filled in at the Lafayette Central Ave., Newark store several times. One of the original stores. One of the three Union stores that Lafayette had. When approaching a potential customer on the floor, hi-fi room, amateur radio/cb section, as a non-union person, I had to get permission from the salesperson handing that area of products. If I made the sale, the credit would go to the salesperson handling that area. The same situation also prevailed at the New York (Union Square store -former 100 6th ave. store) where I worked part-time Thursday and Friday nights when I was going to school in NYC during the day.
A real step back; Lafayette catalogs from the 20's through their last one in 1979:
https://worldradiohistory.com/Lafayette_Catalogs.htmBesides the large main catalog each year, we also issued quarterly catalogs on a regular basis starting roughly in the early 50's.