I bought my Stratocaster from Take Five in 1969. Very nice chap in there. Not at all scarey for an ignorant 16 year old unlike almost everywhere else. I remember Orange as being not in New Compton Street but in a small street off Charing Cross Road that isn't there anymore. Macari's is now on the corner of it but it isn't a 'through' street anymore. My memories of Orange can be taken with a pinch of salt however as I regularly forget my own name these days...Hahahahaha
I remember Shaftesbury Avenue best with Take Five, Sound City and Drum City and Rose Morris (I think). I have an idea that apart from Orange (just off) Charing Cross Road itself had Macari's and Selmers. Imagine how many pics there'd be if folk had digital cameras then. Heigh ho!