[78-L] Shopping in places other than record stores^

[Cary Ginell]

They must have taken a hint from Topps baseball cards, which packaged packs of cards in the same way. On the top and bottom would be Bob Gibson and Mickey Mantle, but in the middle would be guys like Choo Choo Coleman or Pumpsie Green.

Cary Ginell

> Date: Sat, 26 Dec 2009 16:50:46 +0000
> To: 78-l at klickitat.78online.com
> From: agp2176 at verizon.net
> Subject: Re: [78-L] Shopping in places other than record stores^
> 
> At 09:03 26/12/2009, MB wrote:
> 
> >I regularly stopped by Woolworth when I lived in Evanston Ill in 68-72,
> >and got a wealth of stuff there.
> 
> That was something that I recall about my local G C Murphy's and W T 
> Grants' stores. I recall the packs of 45s, in plastic bags. The top 
> and bottom records where hits, drilled of course, but the stuff you 
> couldn't see in the middle was usually junk. Not always though as I 
> got some US releases of UK hits that I knew since I used to listen to 
> Top 20 on the BBC World Service. Best was when the Apple records 
> suspended business around 1976 or so. A whole whack of almost every 
> non-hot single on Apple hit the bins for 25 cents a pop!
> 
> 
> >On my first trip to Budapest Hungary in 1988 I came across a great
> >record store that had Hungarian and Soviet cut-outs.
> 
> 
> I went to a store like that in Prague in 2004. Got a bunch of 45s of 
> Czech/ Slovak covers of western hits on Supraphon, and almost 6 45s 
> by Dave Dee, Dozy, Beaky, Mick & Tich on German Fontana all for 1 Koruna each.
> 
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