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Record shop closed in 1971 has been bought...

birddog

birddog

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And will be sold off at the Austin Record Convention. The ARC, if you are not familiar with it, is a HUGE event, used to be held spring/fall, but had switched to just the fall, but will return to the old schedule in 2009.

Check out this article from the ARC site, about the time warp back to a record shop in Ohio that has been closed for almost 40 years, and the treasures inside!

http://www.austinrecords.com/?gallery/index.htm
 
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Wow, what a find. Too bad someone who isn't in the resale business lucked into owning it. Could you imagine if you were the one to luck into a find like that? Yowza!!

A friend and I planned to attend the Austin show a couple of years back, but it fell thru at the last minute. Hopefully some day!
 
I agree it would have been nice if they could have kept all that stuff together, as a museum. Even if it had to be moved to a new location (the original owners were selling the premises, too, and not just the contents, and that is their right). With all those large cut-out displays they mention, the magazines and posters, etc... along with the music, you could make some very attractive and interesting displays with that stuff (aside from a "time capsule" store type display). Add in interactive functions (like the auditioning "booths" they mentioned), and perhaps some other audio-history gear, and it could form the basis for quite a nice museum. I think that is what I would have tried to do, even if part of the collection had to be sold to pay for it.

Still, it's nice, too, that plenty of people will be able to get something they like from this. The music will be played and heard and enjoyed, instead of sitting there as it has all these years, as if entombed. I'll be surprised if some of that stuff doesn't end up in some AKers' music rooms!

Can't blame the buyers for selling, either, as they will probably make a lot of money from some of those LPs. A "mother load" of LPs from those years in mint/unopened condition has to be worth some "serious bucks". Keeping them together, in contrast, would cost money and be a burden for any average person.
 
There is an old record store near me that evolved into another business run by the same owner. I wonder what he has stashed in his basement?
 
i've written about this before, but there is a store in central phoenix az called revolver records that, while not a time capsule, still induces the same feeling of joy, contentment and wonder that those old fashioned ones did. even has listening stations around the store.
 
If you're going to the Austin Record Convention do not--I repeat do not--take more money than you can afford to spend! Having said that, do not take less money than you can afford to spend either! :D

Good to hear they're going back to twice a year.
 
shrinkboy said:
i've written about this before, but there is a store in central phoenix az called revolver records that, while not a time capsule, still induces the same feeling of joy, contentment and wonder that those old fashioned ones did. even has listening stations around the store.
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I just went to Revolver again a couple of days ago.The feeling that you are sharing in something that the owners of the store love is almost palpable.They arent snobs about music.You might hear Tommy Roe or the Cowsills or Love or Ice T.I love sitting on the floor and going through the dollar bins.
 
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