[78-L] Record Stores

[David Lennick]

Michael Biel wrote:
> Mark L. Bardenwerper, Sr. wrote:
>> read this  http://www.vinylives.com/history.html
>>
>>   
> Another article by a collector of the microgroove era, James P. Goss,  
> full of mainly guesswork and reference to a website of a store and one 
> book of dubious value.  But if he had wanted info of the Commodore 
> Record Shop, he could also have looked at the DVD of Billy Crystal's 
> tribute to his uncle Milt Gabler.  And there are loads of other places 
> to find real info.
> 
>  > Finding definitive evidence surrounding the creation of the first 
> independent record stores is difficult.
> 
> No it wouldn't be if you would do some damn RESEARCH before you write. 
> 
>  > However, my hunch is that many of the first record stores resulted 
> from some of the early distribution networks
> 
> Your HUNCH???????  That is research????????  You write about your HUNCH???
> 
> I guess this is going to have to be my next ARSC project.  Note to 
> would-be researchers :  You have to use ORIGINAL SOURCES.  All the info 
> IS there,  you just have to LOOK for it.  In a LIBRARY.  Ever hear of one? 
> 
> Mike Biel  mbiel at mbiel.com 

I was in one this afternoon, but only to see what was on the $1 sale table. I 
haven't entered the reference section of a library in ten years..all their 
"good stuff" ends up on that table because nobody else looks at it.

dl