[78-L] Remember record stores, kiddies?

[David Lennick]

Took me a while to figure what was on that Columbia display upper left, but it 
advertises cast albums..Kiss Me Kate, Peter Pan, Finian's Rainbow, Gentlemen 
Prefer Blondes, South Pacific, and two on the right I can't make out.

The Frank Luther player is on the bottom left. And bobby sox girl looks like a 
waitress. I'd put this ad at December 1950..note Rudolph above the sales lady 
and the snow-covered house (and Chanukah bush) in the Columbia Changer 
Attachment ad above Joe College on the right. Note (from the caption) that it's 
in a shopping center, not a stand-alone..also that it's a record and camera 
store. We had that kind of combination in Toronto in the 50s.

Great "modern" 50s decor in the later photos.

dl

Michael Biel wrote:
> Scroll down the page for some more store pictures.  (And by the way,  
> I'll be having a few store from the 30s in my ARSC  presentation.)
> 
> fnarf at comcast.net wrote:
>> Link no workie for me. Shorpie doesn't allow direct linking, I guess. But if you go to www.shorpy.com and search for "record store" it's the first hit.
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> 
> The original link worked fine for me.
> 
>> Personally I'm coveting the Frank Luther novelty record player in the bottom right. 
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> Actually the girl in the bobby socks is also kinda cute. 
> 
>> I do indeed remember record stores. I've been in eight of them in the past month, buying newly-pressed LPs and 45s.
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> This store is VERY heavy on 45 box sets, and still has a bunch of 78 
> albums on the bottom two shelves.  I was a little surprised at the 
> original estimate of the date as 1954, but it seems like all of the 
> commenters agreed with  me at 1950 or 51.  I will ad that it seems 
> obvious that it must be before the introduction of the EP in 1952 since 
> I see no 45s in cardboard album sleeves, only box sets. 
> 
> And that girl's skirt is probably too long for 1954.
> 
> Mike Biel  mbiel at mbiel.com
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> 
> 
> ----- Original Message -----
>> From: "David Lennick" <dlennick at sympatico.ca>
>> To: "78L" <78-L at 78online.com>
>> Sent: Saturday, March 20, 2010 5:31:18 PM GMT -08:00 US/Canada Pacific
>> Subject: [78-L] Remember record stores, kiddies?
>>
>> Forwarded from ARSClist. 1950..45s were new and in box sets, and dig the new 
>> fangled "tape recorder"! Click on the photo to enlarge it.
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>> http://www.shorpy.com/node/3654
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>> dl
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