where did you buy your records as a kid

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  1. copshop272

    copshop272 New Member Thread Starter

    Location:
    quebec
    here in canada...............

    woolworths
    stedmans
    ss kresges.....not sure on the spelling.
    muntz........mainly 8 tracks.....were able to trade...
    local merchant
    circle of sound..
    beamishes.............again the spelling
    columbia house
     
  2. Jeff H.

    Jeff H. Senior Member

    Location:
    Northern, OR
    Here in the Bay Area:

    Record Factory(swallowed up by The Wherehouse in the mid 80's)
    Leopold's(swallowed up and destroyed by The Wherehouse in the mid 90's)
    Tower Records
    Sears
    J.C. Penney's(remember when these stores had record departments?)
    Sounds Of Music(two stores one in Union City where I grew up, and one in Fremont. Used to get most of my 45's there from 1976 to when they went out of business in 1980)
     
  3. mrstats

    mrstats Senior Member

    In Duluth Minnesota...

    Musicland and sometimes Woolworths.
     
  4. BradOlson

    BradOlson Country/Christian Music Maven

    In Bemidji, I bought my music at the now defunct, Melody Shop and KMart.
     
  5. Tom

    Tom Senior Member

    Location:
    PA.
    In Pa outside Philly

    House of Music
    G.C Murphy
    Korvette's
    Klein's
    Jerry's Records
    Sam Goody
    Mad's
     
  6. Uncle Al

    Uncle Al Senior Member

    Location:
    Long Island, NY
    Gertz
    Mays
    Woolworths

    all gone.

    Several local mom & pop places. Also all gone.

    Queens, NY:
    I do remember a shop that I bought Revolver in when I was 12 (1968). This was a real hole in the wall - the owner couldn't decide if he wanted to be one of those "Christian souvenir stores" (y'know what I mean? - all bibles and candles and posters of Jesus). or sell you hard rock records. Anywho...

    I go back to the same spot 20 years later (no ****), and the guy is STILL THERE - only now it's a full blown religious icon shop. Way in the back - HE STILL HAS LP'S IN THE RACKS. The same ones - still sealed. SAME PRICE!! I picked up The Rascals Freedom Suite ($6.99) and Otis Redding "Live in Europe" ($4.99). About a year later, he was gone.

    Just another adventure and true story from Uncle Al's continuous record hunt.
     
  7. mudbone

    mudbone Gort Annaologist

    Location:
    Canada, O!
    Baltimore:

    General Records
    Modern Music
    Yeagers
    Murphy's
    Luskin's ($2.49 for mono, $2.99 for stereo!)
    Hecht Co.
    Hochschild-Kohn

    Later,
    Korvettes
    GEM
    Record Collector

    These days,
    Online

    mud-:D
     
  8. Joe Koz

    Joe Koz Prodigal Bone Brother™ In Memoriam

    Location:
    Chicagoland
    Shapiro's - (little ma & pa magazine, hobby shop, had all the new 45's).
    Walgreens
    Goldblatts
    Jupiters - (five & dime like Woolworths).
     
  9. Mike Rivera

    Mike Rivera Senior Member

    Location:
    Northeast Florida
    In San Francisco in the '60s, I remember a store called U.S.E. I think it stood for United Shoppers (something or other). It was a department store in The City that I remember my dad would take tubes to check on the tube-testing machine while mom bought household products.

    My dad had a Sherwood tube amp and tube am/fm separates set, that once in while needed new tubes.

    I was about eight years old when I bought "The Chipmonks Sing the Beatles", "More of the Monkees" and "Led Zepplin II" (quite a matched threesome) for $2.99 each - the going rate in those days at U.S.E.

    Boy, those were the days...
     
  10. Mike V

    Mike V New Member

    Location:
    Connecticut
    Then:
    Caldor
    Kings
    Bradlees
    Merle's Record Rack (was a decent little chain, a couple still remain)
    Record Breaker
    The Disc (a Record Breaker outlet at UConn)
    University Music

    All of these are now gone.

    Now:
    Integrity n' Music - a great place!
    Goodwill & the Salvation Army :D
    Cutler's (a New Haven landmark, thankfully still doing good biz)
    and online....
     
  11. Dean De Furia

    Dean De Furia Senior Member

    Location:
    Northern NJ
    Korvettes

    Two Guys

    Both in Jersey
     
  12. John Carsell

    John Carsell Forum Resident

    Location:
    Northwest Illinois
    When I was just a kid the was a pretty cool Ma & Pa record store called K.G's downtown about 3 or 4 miles from where I lived. Me and my buddies used to walk down there just about every Saturday, buying mostly 45's.

    Later on, usually the record stores at the mall, Musicden, Record Bar etc., they usually had a pretty healthy selection of Beatles imports too.
     
  13. copshop272

    copshop272 New Member Thread Starter

    Location:
    quebec
    canadian tire
    eatons
    even at grocery stores in the 70s....
     
  14. MikeT

    MikeT Prior Forum Cretin and Current Impatient Creep

    Location:
    New Jersey, USA
    Korvettes in West Orange, NJ
    Maple Tunes in Maplewood, NJ
    Vintage Vinyl - when he was still in Irvington, NJ

    and a store in South Orange, NJ which I cannot remember the name of.

    Before I could drive, I used to visit the stores in West Orange, Maplewood and South Orange on my bicycle - on which I had saddlebags that fit LP's very nicely. Even in my youth I would pedal miles from where I lived (West Orange, NJ) to buy my music. Even then the obsession was strong - and it just keeps getting stronger. :D
     
  15. Mark

    Mark I Am Gort, Hear Me Roar Staff

    "Oliver's Music," a very small, corner shop in Mystic, Connecticut, where I grew up. Run by a very, very straight guy, but he got all the latest stuff, 45s and albums, very early. I remember paying about four dollars for an album, and, I think, about 65 cents for a 45. Those were the days, my friend, and I knew they'd end.
     
  16. Slippery

    Slippery New Member

    Location:
    Los Angeles, CA
    I remember in the mid-70s (I was about 12) buying my 45 collection bit by bit at 7-11. They had a display right across from the counter with the top 40 (or maybe top 25) singles on 45s for 99 cents each. When I scrounged up the dough (my allowance then was 50 cents/wk) I'd walk to 7-11, get my newest favorite song and a slurpee (12 year old heaven...). Some of my favorites were:

    Band on the Run
    Bennie and the Jets
    Wildwood Weed (Jim Stafford)
    Wild Thing (Fancy)
    Loco Motion (Grand Funk)
    Call On Me (Chicago)

    I even bought Billy Don't Be a Hero (Bo Donaldson and the Heywoods) and The Night Chicago Died (Paperlace) I'm embarrassed to say, but my tastes have matured a bit since then, just a bit. When I finally graduated to LPs, Licorice Pizza was definitely the coolest place to go...
     
  17. Lord Hawthorne

    Lord Hawthorne Currently Untitled

    Location:
    Portland, Oregon
    As a kid in the mid to late 1960s, I liked to make my meager earnings go as far as they could. Our little town had two record stores, and several supermarkets also sold lps. A car accessories store briefly sold 45s. When it came to lps, it was the cutout bins in the basement of Newberry's that got my dollar (or two). My 45 heaven was realized when the local jukebox outfitter started selling off their used singles at 5 for a dollar. The records would be used, but the sleeves would be mint -- they kept the empty sleeves on file while the records were out in the machines, later to be reunited and in my grubby hands. Unwisely, I tacked my picture sleeves on the wall and kept the singles in a wire rack just like my local AM station did, but it turned out the sleeves would be of more value than the records anyway, and they still sit with their tackholes in a box with their long-exhausted discs discarded.
     
  18. reechie

    reechie Senior Member

    Location:
    Baltimore
    A local department store called Gaylord's, which from the discriptions I've heard, was probably similar to Korvette's. In later years, they had a wonderful cutout bin, with many imports. Found my copy of A Collection Of Beatles Oldies there, with the revelatory stereo "I Feel Fine."

    As I got older, most of my purchases came from the Listening Booth chain, or a tiny little shop called Bugsy's Hop, run by a little old man who had all the latest releases for under five dollars.
     
  19. Grant

    Grant Life is a rock, but the radio rolled me!

    all during the 70s and early 80s:

    Woolworth's
    Sears
    Motgmoery Ward
    Grant's
    Globe
    Circles
    Zips
    Tower Records
    Trade-Mart
    JC Penny's
    McLellens
    McCrory's
    7-Eleven (!)
    K-Mart
    the PX on the base
    various mom & pop stores
     
  20. Bob Lovely

    Bob Lovely Super Gort In Memoriam

    Friiend,

    When I was kid I bought almost exclusive '45's'. In my home town:

    HiFi One Stop - a great store with listening booths - they were $.98, however.

    Spartan & Arlan's - discounts stores ,where I got them for between $.63 and $.67

    Pine Street Records (St. Louis) - a distributor, a friend of my Father's could get us in there [not open to the general public]. '45's were $.59 wholesale - a true 'nice price'. Still remember the day I bought 'The Fly' by Chubby Checker, 'Don't Hang Up' by the Orlons and 'Everlovin' by Rick Nelson with a picture sleeve. I was 10...

    Bob:)
     
  21. levi

    levi Can't Stand Up For Falling Down In Memoriam

    Location:
    North Carolina
    we had two record shops in High Point, N.C., where I lived in the late '60s, '70s -- Marty's and Gerry's. Gerry's had lower prices, but Marty's had a better selection.

    after I got my license, I'd drive to Greensboro, where there was a Record Exchange and Schoolkids' Records. they're kind of grungy chains, mostly in college towns in North Carolina. but grungy in a good way -- all the money goes into inventory instead of point-of-purchase displays.

    I spent a fortune in Record Exchange, where you could buy used albums in VG condition for 3 or 4 bucks. they still have an OK selection and pretty good prices, but I think the days when you could find a real surprise like Highway 61 Revisited mono are over.
     
  22. lil.fred

    lil.fred Señor Sock

    Location:
    The East Bay
    Rather Ripped Records (the name meant nothing to me then!), in Berkeley. Bought my first Beatles import there, must've been about 1978 -- "A Hard Day's Night." Got several imports there.

    It closed. In high school all my purchasing was done at Rasputin's Records (independent).
     
  23. -=Rudy=-

    -=Rudy=- ♪♫♪♫♫♪♪♫♪♪ Staff

    Location:
    US
    VERY early on, Dad would take me to Korvette's. That was mecca to me at 5 years old. :D

    Junior high school, I'd get a ride to Harmony House (at Hoover/11) and Peaches (at Groesbeck/Masonic).

    After high school, I started branching out. Car City Records (St. Clair Shores) and Solo Records (Birmingham) for used vinyl. Then Sam's Jams for used vinyl, new vinyl, new and used CDs when they came along, etc. Every now and then I'd hit the Repeat The Beat on Telegraph in Dearborn. Ann Arbor--Discount Records and Schoolkids.

    These days, I buy most things online. I still frequent Encore Records in Ann Arbor for used vinyl. Haven't made a trip to the east side in ages. Car City Records is no longer worth the trip--they no longer have a lease, and the shelves are getting bare...they won't last much longer. Melodies & Memories (Roseville) is another good stop.
     
  24. jgrig0

    jgrig0 Active Member

    I mainly bought mine from the local corner grocery store for $1 each. That was very high in the early 60s, but what are you going to do when your 10 years old and have no way to get around? They usually had an assortment of 25 or 30 to choose from. They later carried those Hit label records that were "sound alikes" of the current hits. These were made by studio muscians in Nashville and weren't all that bad.

    Later on I bought mainly from The Music Mart in downtown Cincinnati. They specialised in hard to get 45s and shipped all over the world. As a teen I bought mainly from Ontario's department store and Globe records.
     
  25. stever

    stever Senior Member

    Location:
    Omaha, Nebr.
    -Woolworths
    -McCrorys
    -J C Penney
     
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