I was feeling nostalgic about my CE days today and just happened to find this site! In Sept of 1986, CE was opening a new store in Poughkeepsie. I saw an ad in the local paper that they were conducting interviews at a local hotel on Route 9 the next day. I went and was interviewed by Sal & Dennis who were the managers. They hired me on the spot and told me to show up at the store the next day and ask for Brett. So I did. When I got there, Brett said he wasn't sure what department I'd be working. He then asked "Do you know anything about tv's?". I said "well, I have one and I watch it a lot". So he said "good, you're in video". And that was my start of two years in the video dept. at the Poughkeepsie store.
There were some really fun people who worked there...maybe some of them will check in here some day. John, Mike, Erica, Bob, Rick (who got married on New Year's Eve), Jeff...Trudy who became the video dept. manager..of course Sal and Dennis and so many others.
I was the TOP ESP writer in the Audio Dept @ the Central Ave store, and I lived in Yorktown Heights (midway between Central Ave and Poughkeepsie) so i got transferred to "open" Poughkeepsie. I remember that I helped w/ the pre-opening setup in the store as it was being built, but don't remember what happened from there, but the next thing I remember NOW is I started working at a local AV store in Peekskill before that store actually opened.
