[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.
>
Grey Gull appears to have started the "rack jobber" approach; any businesses
that thought they could sell records could obtain a"rack" and a supply of 
GG/
Radiex/usw. records to fill it...!

Steven C. Barr