The info stated it was Berliner, but I question that, noting the Victor player. Maybe Berliner used the competitions players after Victor was established. Berliner was first.
Its a enduring myth that all of Canada is a cool clinate. Most of the population is crowded into the south part of the nation. In Toronto the summer is often high 80s and even high 90s occasionally and with high humidity making it feel much warmer.... Of course our winters can be very cold.
Where I live, when they say "a Canadian Front is coming through", people start calling in sick to work. They want to stay home, put some music on, and watch it as it rolls in.
The staff of Rather Ripped Records in Berkeley, Calif., in the '70s. It's been quite a while since I've been thru all the pages in this thread so I don't know if these pics have been posted yet or not. The picture below is also from the '70s. This is Berkeley looking east up Hearst Ave at the Northside neighborhood, so called because it is north of the University of California campus which is out of frame to the right. Rather Ripped Records was in the building with the pale yellow side wall and pale pink back wall behind the Wash & Dry sign. The store stood at the corner of Hearst and Euclid Avenues. Many were the weekend evenings when I would drive over to Berkeley and hang out at the record stores south of the campus around Telegraph and Durant Avenues, then head over to Rather Ripped. I would often park in the multi-story parking garage at the far left of the picture.
1921? 1921? 1921?? Really. ?? Ok so this begs the question. Is there a pic of the first comercial record store? Maybe this is it? ( this does not look like a place i can buy a lady gaga disc)
That's what my source says, an article somewhere...but you will find stores within this thread from before 1921. Remember, the golden age of records (in the USA at least) defined by when people spent more of whatever disposable income they may have had on RECORDS was in the period BEFORE 1920. Not the 1950's, 60's, or later. People went nuts for records in the 1910s
The eighth wife left me for a guy who had a smart phone I should have known better when she left her previous man because I had a CD walkman with two headphone jacks
