[78-L] Record stores (was: Cany Anyone Identify this Singer)

[Steven C. Barr]

----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Michael Biel" <mbiel at mbiel.com>
> There definitely were all-label record stores by the early1930s. The 
> labels couldn't support exclusive franchises after all of the labels 
> changed hands between 1929 and 1932.  Of course a lot of record stores 
> became record "departments" in stores that sold other products such as 
> radios.  Steinweiss has insisted that  "Dedicated record stores were 
> rare, so records were often sole in appliance stores" before he 
> magically liberated the industry with his illustrated album covers.  Of 
> course that wasn't true, and the American Record Guide published a 
> monthly list of  record stores around the country which it endorsed.  
> Obviously there were plenty more.   When Leah has a chance, her next job 
> in my research is to find the address of his boyhood home in Brooklyn in 
> the 30s and list out the "dedicated" Record stores (wascord stores in 
> Brooklyn at that time. 
> 
Oddly enough, the other common "co-business" for record/phonograph
dealers was undertaking...?!

Steven C. Barr