[78-L] Houston record shops

[Bill McClung]

Black Dog has had some 78s for about a year.  Look half way down the left
wall under the lps.  I found some interesting calypso 78s from Jamaica and
some good gospel 78s.  He's got about 200 or so.

Vintage Sounds has 5-600 78s.  She has a central showroom with vintage
record players (her main business is repairing players and radios) that has
a couple of boxes of 78s but she has another space nearby with 78s and lps.
I've found several Texas label 78s there including a couple I had never seen
before.

If you can get to Austin be sure to go to Antone's on Guadalupe.  They have
a couple thousand 78s and several thousand 45s to go with their lps.  They
get 78s on consignment every couple of months.  It's worth the trip.




On Sun, Apr 3, 2011 at 5:19 PM, Robert M. Bratcher Jr. <
rbratcherjr at yahoo.com> wrote:

> Interesting about Black Dog having common 78's in the shop. That must have
> happened since I was last there. Vintage Sounds? Long time since I was
> there but
> I think she had a small selection of 78's when I made my last visit. Davids
> Records in Humble. Didn't know about that one. Will check it out one day
> this
> spring or in the summer.
>
>
> Every once in awhile some 78's turn up at the local Houston record show at
> the
> Hilton Southwest hotel thats put on every 2 months. All of what I've seen
> over
> many years is the usual 30's to 50's common stuff & not very much of it if
> any
> at all. I did manage to find a near mint copy of Feel So Good by Shirley &
> Lee
> on Alladdin on 78 RPM at the local Houston record show once & was glad to
> find
> it as the 45 of that record which I've had for over 20 years is badly worn
> & was
> that way when I found it used.  Also several shows later I picked up some
> early
> to md 50's near mint Nat King Cole 78's on Capital at that show but then I
> collect Nat which is why I bought them plus some of those I already had on
> 45
> RPM. I've also seen common 78's at the Austin record collector show too &
> don't
> remember seeing any rare 78's there. Haven't checked the Austin area for
> record
> collector shops but there were some when I spent a summer there in 1980 or
> maybe
> it was 1981. I suspect there might be a few though but gas is too expensive
> to
> drive over there on a regular basis. Same with San antonio & the D/FW area.
> A
> few record collector shops might exist but then I honestly have no idea
> whether
> they do in those cities or not. The possibility of any 78's in those shops
> is
> unknown at least to me anyway.
>
> I wonder if the folks at Kurt Nauck's place let people come by appointment
> to
> dig through whatever is not in the current auction? I've never asked
> whether
> they do or not. Be rather nice if they did allow this though.
>
> A quick Google search turned up the following still around in the Houston
> area.
> Haven't been to any of these 3 in several years & none of them had 78's at
> the
> time of my visit but then I do collect 45's & LP's too besides 78's.
>
> Cactus Music & Records 2110 Portsmouth Houston, TX 77098 (713)526-9272
>
> VINAL EDGE RECORDS. 13171 Veterans Memorial Drive, Houston, Texas 77014.
> (281)
> 537-2575.
>
> Sound Exchange 1846 Richmond Avenue, Houston (713) 666-5555.
> I remember when this one was close to the lower Westheimer area near
> Shepherd
> before they moved to the Richmond location.
>
> I'll have to drive down Gray close to Montrose one day & hunt for whatever
> that
> shop is if it's still there or maybe it might be
>
> somewhere on Montrose but then I don't know. Doubt there'd be any 78's
> there but
> you never know.....
>
>
> 15 to 20 years ago there were 3 or 4 record collector shops in the lower
> Westheimer area but sadly they are all long gone now.
>
> One was Infinite Records that Dave Ritz ran & another with tons of 78's was
> whatever Kurt Kauck's shop was called  before
> he got married & moved everything to the Spring area. That was a great shop
> while it lasted. Another shop which only
> had 45's & albums was Roy's House Of Memories later called Roy's Collectors
> Showcase after Roy Bonario moved his shop
> out of the Montrose area wherever it was. He's been dead for a few years
> now &
> his shop is long gone.
>
> The Half Price Bookstores at 1011 Westheimer (near Montrose) & the one at
> 2537
> University Boulevard have a few common 78's
>
> from time to time. I haven't checked any of the others in the Houston area.
> The
> 78's issue at resale shops, Goodwill &
> the antique shops I've been to in the Heights is very bleak & has been for
> quite
> awhile however Ebay,
>
> (if you ever wanted to surf there)always has lots of them both common &
> rare if
> you believe what the sellers say. Not pushing Ebay but I've found some 78's
> worth buying on the site.
>
>
> I'm having trouble finding 78s in Houston, too.
>
> There are some at Vintage Sounds 10910 Katy Freeway open Fri-Sun (Kathy
> Botto 713/468-4911).
>
> Every so often there are a few 78s at David's Records in Humble
> (281/446-2345). The store is a mess and only open Fridays and Saturdays.
>
> And Black Dog Records near Shepherd and 59 has some 78s but they are your
> mostly late common items.
>
> It's pretty bleak.
>
>
>
>
> On Sun, Apr 3, 2011 at 8:38 AM, neechevoneeznayou at gmail.com <
> neechevoneeznayou at gmail.com> wrote:
>
> > So what is left of the Houston record shops? I am not sure that I know
> > of any presently, other than the occasional dealer who sets up in a
> > temporary location, and the one in Stafford which is open once a month
> > maybe and looking for a new owner. There's one toward Montrose, on West
> > Gray possibly, and one other I am not placing at the moment. Other than
> > that, there aint much. Few have any 78s or occasionally have some,
> > mostly late common items, and I don't find 78s at Goodwill and resale
> > shops much anymore. Most of what I do find is not that which I collect.
> > It has been a while since I have seen any worth mentioning at 1/2 price
> > books, altho I did once get some Chevalier French HMVs for pennies @,
> > and they turned out to be very delightful music
> >
> > joe salerno
> >
> > On 4/3/2011 8:16 AM, Robert M. Bratcher Jr. wrote:
> >  Other than visiting Black Dog
> > > Records one time last year (a collector shop on Shepherd close to hwy
> 59&
> >  they
> > > never have 78's) I haven't tried to visit whats left of the Houston
> > record
> > > collector shops
>
>
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