[78-L] Record Stores

[David Lennick]

Speaking of "Sam", I recently found a business card for "Sniderman Radio" in 
Toronto, with the back side used as a receipt and dated Sept. 20/42. Obviously 
before the business became Sniderman's Music Hall, the predecessor to Canada's 
huge Sam The Record Man chain. The store was originally run by older brother 
Sid and sold home radios, car radios, washers and refrigerators (and an 
occasional record).

Also noteworthy on a personal level is the address, 714 College Street..we just 
found a house we're going to make an offer on, street number 714 (and of course 
that was Sgt. Friday's badge).

dl

Michael Biel wrote:
> 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