tabtabt The streets of Sendai city makes a grid-system crossing almost square towards the west-east and the north-south, and the most busy streets among them are the two arcades of Central Avenue which comes from the station square towards the south, and First Street crossing the avenue squarely. Parallel to First Street, runs Kokubun-Cho Street illuminated with neon signs. In those days, there was a coffeehouse named Peter Pan on the alley between Kokubun-Cho and the next Narrow Side-Street. The shop was in the 2nd floor of a small building, and a wooden billboard was hung out at the entrance facing the road, on which a figure of Peter Pan flying in the sky in red cap was engraved.

tabtabt The customers of this shop were about 20 years and also the owner of the shop, Mr. Nagashima might be at most 25-6, I guess. His wife was a beautiful woman of bucktooth lineage, having a name of Megumi, and they called her Meg. Their music were mainly around rock'n'roll and they preferentially played imported disks which were directly ordered from America. The two were graduated from M-Art-College and I had heard that some member of YMO (Yellow Magic Orchestra) was their friend, where I suppose they had reliable ears and information sources to select good music. Perhaps, their shop was one of the places where such music as Jackson Brown, Johnny Mitchell or reggae were played for the fastest time, wasn't it ?

tabtabt They drew printed sheer Indian silk curtains over the windows looking toward the road-side for the sake of shielding lights, and a floor-lamp with huge lamp shade painted by hands standing by the side of a wide wooden front counter, was replenishing orange lights covering the shortage of lumination intensity. Although this shop was my best favorite shop, there was somewhat hesitating for me who already was nearly reaching 30, even to visit once a month.