Post your pics of historic and iconic record stores during 70s/80s

Hi all,

I wanted to start a thread for people to upload their pictures of iconic records stores (especially during the 70s and 80s). I will upload my first batch as soon as possible but thought I'd get the thread up and running.

Examples I am looking for:

HMV Oxford Circus London
Tower Records Piccadilly Circus London
Sam Goody's New York (or any other U.S. city)
Tower Records (in the U.S.)

Thanks all!

Nubben

 

Mine is nothing so grand as the examples you mention, but Fox’s Record (& Tape!) Centre in Alfreton Derbyshire was very dear to me. I went to school in Alfreton (Mortimer Wilsons! - also long gone) and there often more kids in Fox’s than there were in the classrooms! The shop was nothing special, but had a nice atmosphere and you always knew where everything was. Fox’s sold records, tapes and 8-tracks in the 70s when I discovered it, got in early with CDs a decade later and also rented out a nice selection of video cassette films. You can see these on the left side of the picture.



This isn’t my photo, but it’s the only one I could find. I’m guessing from the Whitney Houston album in the window, this was from 1987. Fox’s closed its doors in 1993. Alfreton isn’t a big town, but by then WH Smith’s, Woolworths and Boots all sold records, tapes and CDs and they couldn’t compete. Wish I could find more pictures... The shop is as clear as a bell in my mind’s eye, but that’s not much use to this thread.

Great idea for a thread, BTW. What a shame we didn’t take more pictures back then!

 

Not to be that guy, but this has been done....

8 defunct record store chains you will never shop at again

 

@Blastproof - no need to apologise but I don't see that many pictures in those threads. I am more interested in pictures rather than a list of defunct stores if that makes sense.

 

@Bobby Morrow - nice find, thanks!

 

It’s not a well known chain like you’re implying in the thread title, but it was special to me. I bought my first record, cassette and CD there over the years. That has to be worth something.

 

Also (not that there’s anything wrong with overlapping threads IMO), this long-running thread has almost 800 posts:

Record store pictures from the past.

 

LA BOURSE (Lyon, France): I used to go pretty often in the 80's / 90's.

 

Now defunct
New Moon Records
Traverse City, Michigan. My only (close by) source for imports. Loved this place.
(Photo grabbed from a Bob Seger website.)

 

This image link courtesy of LandOfCleve.net. I hope it works. It is of Peaches Records and Tapes at Brookpark & Pearl Roads in Parma (Cleveland) OH. Bought many an album here back in the day.

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Radio Doctors in Milwaukee. I really miss going there.

 

Wow, great contributions thanks all!

And @Stone Turntable - thanks for the link! That's a great thread too!