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CASSETTE REPAIR KIOSK, Perth Bus Station (1984–1997): Untangled the City’s Mixtapes With a Pencil
A pencil, a steady hand and no questions asked about what was on the tape.
A cassette tape, the kind that needed a pencil. Photo: Jacek Halicki, “2023 Kaseta VHS, magnetofonowa i minikaseta”, via Wikimedia Commons, CC BY-SA 4.0
PERTH — We mark the memory of a kiosk that repaired chewed-up cassettes with a pencil, a steady hand and total discretion.
“He never judged,” said a former customer. “Even when it was the third tape of the same love song.”
It is survived by every pencil in Perth with a slightly hexagonal bite mark.
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