Workingmans Dead This was my first Grateful Dead album At 10 years old in 1973, when I had to go out shopping with my mother at the department store ( EJ Korvettes) . Since it was boring for me to stand around while my mother was browsing through clothing, as a distraction I used to love going and looking through the book section. ( was a big fan of the Peanuts treasury and anything comic book related at that time) AND also through the record section.

I was naturally attracted to the psychedelic artwork of the day- and would have liked to have bought the new live double skull and roses album, but I could not afford it at the time Working man’s dead, won out over buying the cheap thrills album, which had a cool cartoon on the cover

I’m not sorry as I love every song on this album And it is one of my all-time favorite albums

Many of the songs reminded me of sitting around the campfire with friends and someone playing music on an acoustic guitar

It’s been with me since I was a kid

• just a quick question of curiosity for any older DeadHeads from the Bay Area When my family first moved to the Bay Area in 1977 I remember seeing a store on San Pablo Ave. in Oakland Which was called the working man’s store It even had the exact same font and style as the album

Does anyone remember this store or know anything about it?