[78-L] Record Stores

[Michael Biel]

Geoffrey Wheeler wrote:
> Mike Biel says: It's how Julian Morton Moses and Sam Goody both 
> started. Goody also had a “one-stop” over on 10th Avenue during the 
> 1940s and supplied records to many small independent stores. Unlike 
> distributors who sold only by minimums to larger record stores, chains, 
> etc., one-stops sold on a onesy and twosy basis to mom-and-pops.

I worked a couple of summers at a very large one-stop in 66 and 67. It 
was so large, one of our clients was Macys. 

I have a couple of articles from the 50s and 60s about Sam himself, and 
before the one-stop he was a junk dealer and fell into the 2nd hand 
record business when the records he found were his best selling items.  
Moses, of course, specialized in fine opera from the very beginning.  
I'm finding a couple of articles about him in the 30s.

Mike Biel  mbiel at mbiel.com