Where did you buy your records when you were growing up??
What were the best record stores in Detroit in the 60', 70's and 80's???
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Where did you buy your records when you were growing up??
What were the best record stores in Detroit in the 60', 70's and 80's???
Bought my first LP at Ross Music Shop, at Eastland. Shopped at Hudson's there, too, but that was because I liked a girl who worked there. Ross had more of the English Invasion groups that I liked, and the proprietor, Bob[[?) was hip and full of stories about rock n roll.
Later, I liked Dearborn Music, then Mixed Media...
Sam's Jams in Ferndale.Quote:
70's and 80's???
Miracle Mart and Korvette's.
For the longest time on the westside, the coolest shop to drop into and hang out for a while was Peaches Records and Tapes...a chain based out of Georgia, hence the name. Schaefer Highway just north of Michigan Avenue.
They kept late hours on Friday and Saturday, and had a decidedly hip atmosphere...informed employees...and highlighted albums would have their covers reproduced in six-feet square renderings high up on the wall.
The local Tech Hifi took care of the audio system...and the old manager's name was Jim Taylor...before the album covers they did silk-screened banners, and ol' Jim left behind the James Taylor purple-on-yellow promotional banner...that I've kept since 1981.
Tough to imagine that is has been around longer than some of my city friends...
Cheers, if anyone still has any of those crates from Peaches...I'd be interested in buying at least three or four of them...for ol' times' sake, now that I'm back into vinyl with a vengeance.
Analog is simply better than digital...at conveying the spirit of a recording and carrying the listener into the performance.
I'm n ot so sure that analog is so superior to digital.
What I feel is really superior is a good tube stereo amp. Fisher preferably.
Ward's at 7 and Gratiot, Harmony House and Kresge at Eastland
Bell Records in Old Redford. The very best.
Harmony House, Peaches, and Record Stop/Record Time <-- this store was at Frazho & Gratiot; it had a unique round front window. One of my brothers worked at that store [[it operated under both those names, I think I have them right) for a long time.
We have 4 or 5 crates of vinyl that represent merging my LP collection w/my husband's back in the late 70s when we moved in together. He's begun the tedious process of digitalizing with a converter turntable. I really don't understand when someone talks about the "warmth" of vinyl. I'm not impressed with pops and clicks, personally.
Peaches at Groesbeck and Masonic
Music Stop in the Eastgate Mall
Record Time on 10 Mile in East Detroit, then Hewitts Bldg in Roseville, then next to London Calling in Roseville
Sam's Jams on 9 Mile in Ferndale
Harmony House in East Detroit at 9 & Gratiot
Car City Records on Harper in St Clair Shores
Corn.Bot, there was a guy who worked at both Music Stop and then Record Time in the Hewitts Music Bldg on Gratiot. Perhaps that was your brother? Kinda short, blond hair... looked like one of the guys from Styx or something.
Started out at Musicland and later discovered Harmony House - usually went to the Harmony House on Mack & Allard in Grosse Pointe Woods but later got to particularly like the classical store in the GP Village. Harmony House always had the best selections.
I did also go to Korvette's a couple of times - not as much of a selection but they had some good prices!! I still have a few Nat King Cole vinyls purchased from Korvette's that I've since converted to CD.
Shay's in downtown Allen Park, then Arlan's behind Sears in Lincoln Park, Korvettes, Peaches, Dearborn Music, then got in the radio biz and got everything for free, then sold a bunch at Car City when they were on Jefferson.
Civic Music..Peaches afterwards///civic though was classic
"...Analog is simply better than digital...at conveying the spirit of a recording and carrying the listener into the performance..."
I agree with this, and the post about tube amps. Compression is not a good thing!
First records were bought by my parents,[[and given to me by "Santa", much to the bane of atheists!) from Montgomery Wards, @ 7 Mile and Gratiot.
I still have my very first album, by John Cougar, American Fool, on vinal...
Harper Music Store which was located at Harper and Field streets. They had metal racks for the newest 45s and the most popular hits. They also repaired record players,but you had to be carefull or they would rip you off.
EJ Korvettes - Telegraph near Joy
Oh, yeah, I forgot: many of my records came from the Colombia Record Club. My parents bought me a membership for a couple birthdays in my teens, so I got like 12 records for $.99 and then bought one every two months for a year. It was like heaven the day the initial package arrived.
Ah, Colombia Record Club! I used it one year, and got a mailing advertising "pen pals" from England. Ended up corresponding with a girl from Manchester for a couple years. Found out years later that she became a tenured English professor at Cambridge.
The record club was good, but did not offer new albums until about six months after their release.
Not entirely sure... bro was/is about 5'8", but he's got brown hair which he wore shoulder-length for awhile. His name is Kenny [[or Ken, since I'm talking like his older sister :p). He started as a part-time high-school grunt in the late 70s and was store manager by the early 90s when he finally moved on.
Never did get into buying records cause they were on their way out when I got to my preteen years. When I did buy them it was a Harmony House usually at Wonderland. Got most of my CD'S by mowing the lawn at the old MusicMusic in Garden City.
At one time back in the 90's there were 3 record stores on Ford Rd in Garden City, with plenty more around the area. Sams Jams in Livonia was a neat place to go, never made it to the Ferndale store.
Initially bought all my 45s and albums at the Grand River/Greenfield Wards [[late 60s to mid 70s). I remember going to the Dearborn Peaches some in the late 70s. Discovered Sams Jams in the early 80s. By then there were a lot of albums that were out of circulation and you could find them used at Sams. Made some great 'discoveries' there of some old stuff you couldn't find anywhere else at the time. Now you can find just about anything on CD through the net.
Wow...lemme think. Ross Music Eastland, Kresge's at 7 & Mack, and the Groove Shop on Mack.
I bought more Fat Freddy Comics at the Groove Shoppe than records.....and also was going in for the chick that worked there sometimes. :D
Same guy ran that place forever....guess Im getting old, his name escapes me now.
Wow, we used to shop at the same places! Bought a lot of my Donny Osmond records at Wards. I always thought the layout of that store was odd--the long corridor to get to...where did that lead? Garden Center? I don't remember.
Also, why was there a second Federal's building across the alley from the Gratiot store?
How cool is that? :) I'll have to tell him someone remembers him. Ken still lives/works in the area. He's got more solar panel than hair on his head now, though. Matter of fact, just had a big shindig to-do in Eastpointe to celebrate his 25th wedding anniversary.
almost every saturday afternoon in the spring and summer in the early 70's, would ride our bikes from where we lived near 6 and john r up woodward to a place in ferndale called, i think, the "record house" run by what seemed to be a bunch of hippies.
remember buying mc5 [[kick out the jams and time out), all the ccr, the seger album w/ the great 2+2 [[why did he decline as his popularity increased?), firesign theatre, never forget the cover of the mothers of invention "weasels ripped my flesh".
[[I'm still trying to figure how I forgot Sam's Jams...)
I have a Firesign Theatre album. What a blast from the past! Too bad I don't have a working record player.
My favorite entry in months, from jcole:
"...It was still music. And I wanted it..."
Reminds one of a famous quote:
"One day I will find the right words, and they will be simple."
Jack Kerouac
Well put, jcole!
Oh, the other place I forgot to mention was the record shows.
That's where I got my original Stooges and MC5 albums...
They still have one at the VFW on Gratiot.
DW313 - Why, oh why did you have to mention Firesign Theatre???? Now I have an earworm - Porgie Tirebiter! He's a spy and a girl delighter...Orgie Firefighter - He's just a student like you! Arghhhhhhhhh...you're no fun - you fell right over
White's Records on Ferry Park and 14th; Kendricks Records on Fenkell and Steel; and Coachmen's Records on Charlevoix and Mt Elliott...
Around 1971 or 72 went to the Korvettes at 12 and Gratiot to spend my 40 dollar paycheck from a fast food joint on the latest records. Wanted some Who and Stones. They had a big wood board with the albums displayed of what was on their play list. There was a red light that was either on or off, telling you what was playing. The coolest stuff I had ever heard was playing, the red light was on the Kris Kristoferson album, Silver Tongued Devil. Could not wait to get home to play it. Drove my VW bug home at fast speed. Played the record. Worst stuff I ever heard. The store must have had the red light on the wrong album. They would not take it back. It was a Traffic album that I had heard. Wecome to the Canteen. Bought that , still have it. The Kristoferson album I could never sell at my yard sales. Trashed it. Oh well, still love my vinyl.
Well, I became a jazz fanatic around 1968. I would take the Det yellow pages each Saturday and cover different areas each week. So I found some really interesting shops, and because "older" jazz wasn't too popular - older meaning pre-electric Miles - I found some amazing shit. Most stores I went to, like Horn's Records and Tapes on Woodward at Clairmont, had long since consigned their Prestige and Blue Note and Riverside LP's to the back room or the basement. Most momandpop stores had jazz records in the basement or back room which they sold to me for not too much dough.
Most places would allow me to rummage through those dusty stacks in search of Gold, and I struck pay dirt OFTEN. Horn's was my favorite place for most of a year - Mr. Horn liked me, and we hung out diggin' Trane and Monk, etc. He also had a little side biz happening - numbers, which, he confessed, paid the rent on his shop most months. He sold me many early Prestige, Blue Notes, and even a couple of Transition LP's - if you are a fellow jazz crazy, you know how rare those discs are.
I also frequented Green's, on Grand River just behind Hudson's. They specialized in imports, and I secured many Polydor reissues of early Bebop. It was a standard record store, they wouldn't let me rummage. White's records was pretty good, too, as were Korvette's [[amazing stuff in their cut out bins) and even Hudson's had jazz if you looked hard enough.
I also hit Fortune Records one Saturday. What a trip that place was. Jack Brown let me rummage through huge piles of old used jazz records - found some late 50s Blue Notes - and spent most of my paycheck in one day. He had a steady flow of customers from God knows where, and most of them bought his Fortune LPs. I was too dumb at the time to appreciate his artists, but I did find several Coltrane Prestige sides in near mint condition which he gave up for a song, provided I organized massive piles of Fortune records for him.
The true record collector or jazz crazy knows that when you left a shop after a hard day of searching [[browsing is too mild a verb for what collectors really do) you would be covered with record jacket funk and smell like a moldy LP.
Bob Mays, proprietor of a bona fide record collector's store. His shop was on E. 8 Mile near I75, first on the eastbound side, then, for a few years until he was finally forced to close, on the westbound side almost across from the original.
When I went in around 1968, Bob looked old to me [[most everyone over 30 looked old to me, I was 18) and seemed to drink "a bit." He had a solid grasp of jazz records and their worth. I bought my first 78s from his store - a Bird Dial, and a Tatum Decca - and went back many times over a 30 year period, until I actually had most everything I wanted due to the advent of CD's.
Bob is one of those guys who seemed designed for and destined to sell used records. He would have looked odd selling groceries, or car insurance, but was totally right for the record job. Thin as a rake, long bushy beard, smoked a lot, always dusty boxes piled high in corners and most everywhere else in his modest sized space. To borrow a quote about Duke Ellington, Bob looked like he'd seen it all, and done most of it. He still has a table at record collector shows.
Now Cappy was different - stocky guy rough voice, friendly but didn't take crap from anyone. Always thought Cappy was an ex motorcycle gang member for some reason - just had a slightly menacing air about him, but once you talked with him for a while he turned out to be a really nice guy. And he knew his records, especially his Detroit records. I asked him once if he had any disco records, and he looked at me in disbelief before bursting into laughter for a solid minute. I wasn't joking, but I was too insecure to fess up and tell him I wasn't joking, and we moved on to other topics.
Cappy had to pack up most of his 'special collection' for some reason which I've forgotten, and wasn't in a big hurry to unpack them - if you've ever moved a lot of records, you know the effort involved. Cappy closed his shop a few years ago, and I that was a major loss for Det record collectors. I only hope he gets the chance to channel his amazing knowledge into a Det business of some sort - maybe selling records?? LOL.
It was nice buying all those records - but after all of these years I've decided the albums can stay - but two boxes of 45's are going out for bulk trash day!
Pam - I gave away boxes of 45's...but then I find more - anybody want them?
What are some artists represented?
Well, EastDetroit - I had to go downstairs to grab some of the records - SURPRISE - basement flooded...so I swam as fast as I could and grabbed a few off the top of box one - CashRecords - Ernie Freeman combo, Money Label - The larks, Philles records - The Ronettes, Polydor records - James Brown, Perception records - The Fatback Band, Boyd records - Philip Upchurch, Enjoy records - the rinkydinks, Wand re cords - Maxine Brown....there are alot and I'm not going back downstairs till it dries!!!!
That's some good stuff. I want them.
EastD - send me a private message
Did you guys work out a deal? I'll feel better when the records find a good home. :)
"Where did you buy your records when you were growing up??"
Foxhole on Ford Road in Garden City.
I used to work at a place on Purtan near Linwood called Angott Distributing. They used to sell to jukebox operators and music stores all over the state. One of their music store clients was the Downbeat Record Shop and Shine Parlor on, i think, Hamilton. One time I stopped by there on a Saturday and Aretha Franklin's sis was in there. They also turned out to be my first steady connect. I'm talkin _BACK_ in the day....
K-Mart is where I bought my first records [["Let It Be" 45 and Led Zep 3 LP). Next was a place in Wayne's old Metro Place Mall called 5-M Records, where I bought Deep Purple's Machine Head and the debut LP by West, Bruce & Laing. Then in 1973 I discovered Dearborn Music and Wazoo & Schoolkid's in Ann Arbor, and around '77-'78 I found Peaches.
In 1981 a school friend and neighbor, Jeff Garbus, opened a store on Ford Rd in Garden City called Desirable Discs. It was just west of the old Foxhole [[which became MusicMusic). He lost the store in a divorce and opened another one on Schaefer called Desirable Discs II. Then he got married again, moved the store to Michigan Ave and opened 2 more, one at Ford & Middlebelt and another at the old Repeat the Beat on Telegraph. These stores did well through the latter half of the '90s. Then he got divorced again and Desirable Discs II soon folded. So of course he opened up another place in 2000-01: Record Graveyard in Hamtramck. No CDs this time, only vinyl. More 45s than I've ever seen anywhere, even Ann Arbor.
After 29 years in the biz, Jeff is thinking of closing Graveyard at the end of the year. Everything is 50% off so I've been going there a lot lately
Thanks for the tip, PS. Time to up my scouring muscles and pay him a series of visits.
I remember shopping at that Desirable Discs on Ford Road in the early 80s. Jeff had his little baby in a playpen in the store. Shopped at Music Music across the street also. Sam's Jams in Ferndale. Does anyone else remember a used record shop in the strip mall by the Kmart at 7 Mile and Farmington Roads in Livonia? I got some super Detroit Emeralds on Ric Tic there - I'm An Ordinary Man [[Take Me The Way I Am) and Show Time. I can't remember the name of the store, and it wasn't there very long.
Spent many hours and many dollars at Repeat the Beat on Telegraph Road too. I dragged my little kids there and would joke with them that instead of a "Sorry We're Closed" sign that they should put up a "Sorry Kids, We're Open" sign. Then I'd take them next door in that strip mall to the Baskin Robbins and get ice cream as their reward for behaving while I sifted through the boxes of 45s. I remember getting Billy Harner's She's Almost You / Fool Me for 10 cents, one of my favorite purchases ever, being a Philly-area girl.
It was through Bob Talbert's column that I found out about the Record Conventions. Way back then they were held at some hall near Grand River and 9 Mile. What was that hall, A VFW? I remember a dirt parking lot and smoke-choked air and dealers all playing their 45s on their little record players. I bought a lot of records from Ed Shornock and his wife Linda. Their names were stamped on all the 45 sleeves.
In the 60's I shopped at Speedy's Records in Allentown PA. Moved to Michigan in 1977.
Bahbay,My uncle ran Angott for years.Thats where I did all my buying as a youth.They where the largest independent wholesaler in michigan.Whenever a national act came through town they would stop by.Got to meet a lot of cool people that way. Dave
Kelton, the 7 Mile & Farmington store was a branch of Sam's Jams.
I'm so happy that Royal Oak has a vinyl store again. If you haven't visited UHF yet, come on down. Bonus is the performance space in the back, a band called Zoos of Berlin played yesterday.
[quote=psubliminal;201483]K-Mart is where I bought my first records [["Let It Be" 45 and Led Zep 3 LP). Next was a place in Wayne's old Metro Place Mall called 5-M Records, where I bought Deep Purple's Machine Head and the debut LP by West, Bruce & Laing. Then in 1973 I discovered Dearborn Music and Wazoo & Schoolkid's in Ann Arbor, and around '77-'78 I found Peaches.
In 1981 a school friend and neighbor, Jeff Garbus, opened a store on Ford Rd in Garden City called Desirable Discs. It was just west of the old Foxhole [[which became MusicMusic). He lost the store in a divorce and opened another one on Schaefer called Desirable Discs II. Then he got married again, moved the store to Michigan Ave and opened 2 more, one at Ford & Middlebelt and another at the old Repeat the Beat on Telegraph. These stores did well through the latter half of the '90s. Then he got divorced again and Desirable Discs II soon folded. So of course he opened up another place in 2000-01: Record Graveyard in Hamtramck. No CDs this time, only vinyl. More 45s than I've ever seen anywhere, even Ann Arbor.
After 29 years in the biz, Jeff is thinking of closing Graveyard at the end of the year. Everything is 50% off so I've been going there a lot lately[/quoTES
Too bad the store is closing. I picked up a nice copy of John Choltrane Selflessness for 4 bucks, 14 dollars less than a compareable condition copy at Record Time in Ferndale. Im stopping by tomorrow.Anyone want to join me for a drink or two at Paychecks next door?:)
Stormy records in Dearborn has an abundance of 45s neatly displayed in rows, organized by genre.
Ronnie was one of the owners when he worked there....
I bought my first LP at Mellow Music on East Jefferson near Newport. It may have been in the same building as the Vanity Ballroom. It had a round sign, like a record that hung out over the sidewalk. Later on I would shop at LaGreen's Discount Records Downtown. I can't remember its exact location, but it was in one of those triangle buildings resulting from the spoked street design of Detroit. Like Lafayette and American Coney Islands. Not there, but the same idea.
Grew up in Hamtramck and didn't have a car so we had Federal's Dept Store on Jos. Campau and [[my favorite!) Old Town Record Shop also on Campau. MOstly 45s from both of them. I was all into the oldies when growing up in the 70s, as well as the popular stuff, so Old Town was great.
After a while, I was able to get out to Korvettes on 12 and John R I believe and bought many an album from there.
Was also a member of Columbia House and RCA Record clubs.
Went to college at MSU and bought lots of albums at State Discount before cds came out. Still got the vinyl stuff I was collecting at Wazoo and FBC [[Flat Black and Circular) in E. Lansing.
I've got about 300 albums in my basement....can't give em up but never play them.
Harmony House in Lincoln Park got a lot of my business
An article about Motown in Detroit Scope magazine mentions a spot called Prince Adams Record Mart on 12th and Hazelwood.
E.J. Korvette's, Peaches, Dearborn Music, Sam's Jams.
Just came across the below link to the folks that owned Foxhole Records in Garden City in the sixties.
A Country singer by the name of Clyde Grubb.
There is picture of Foxhole Records, one of Clyde with Buck Owens [[who apparently made an appearance at Foxhole, and Clyde's history.
http://www.hillbilly-music.com/artis...x.php?id=11040
Federals Department Store - Grand River and Oakman.
Forgot all about those crates til you mentioned that! Used to go to the Dearborn Peaches on Schaeffer back in the late 70s. Sams Jams was my favorite - you could find all of those albums that they weren't selling any more in the 'regular' stores. Me and my buddy would go there and get really excited whenever we found an old 60s or early 70s gem. Now you can find just about anything ever released via the internet.
Record Town on Gratiot closed it's doors for the last time yesterday...story on WDIV..
in 1971, A cute guy who worked at Stereo City sold me a demo cassette of "Sticky Fingers" after much begging because it was the only one he had left and I was driving to Colorado with my parents for 2 weeks. Saved me from the hell of miles of bad lounge music. Thank you, cute guy, where every you are.
Four years later, I was working at Harmony House...first on John R., then I helped open some new stores, finally staying at the 11 & Hoover store for a while. Carl Thom was the first really great boss I ever had. All future employers would have to measure up; few did.
I worked for some of the chain music stores. I used to order from Angott and Vinyl Vendors in Ohio to get regional and hot sellers to get through the weekend. One guy I knew, Steve Gust, went to work at Angott. Don't know what happened to Steve. He had some problems.
Hello all, In a Detroit website, bruceharkness.com on pg 41 of the Urban Interiors chapter a guy talks about his Chene St. business, originally a record store owned by his father, which he inherited and later turned into a bait shop. Anybody remember that one?? Interesting stuff. If you are into Detroit blues, also check out the Blues and Colors chapter. Photos of the local blues greats, Uncle Jessie White, "Wild Child" Butler, Willie D. Warren at the Attic Bar and Soup Kitchen Saloon.
I'm totally dating myself, there was this store on gratiot, the guy had a beard [[that really nails it), and his uncle worked for Phillips. We used to steal the mercury switches out of thermostats in new houses being built [[my little brother got "caught" one night, but he talked big and scared off the "citizens" who confronted him, too funny, his voice was still cracking, tee hee).
Anyhow, we made this switching device that swirled the sound all around this circle of speakers, really cool. So I showed it to this guy, and he's like [[stoned, mind you) "We're gonna make some big money off of this, just wait till I show my uncle". Of course squat diddle ended up happening. Cool store, they also sold guitars in the back, monster amps, and me and my brother had VIP passes to jam whenever we wanted, even though in retrospect, we kinda sucked.
Does anyone remember a record store at Grand River and Buchanan?
I bought a lot of records at Korvettes because, as I remember, their prices were lower than many other stores.
Sam's Jams, Desirable Discs, MusicMusic, Peaches, Repeat the Beat, Solo Records, & many locations of Harmony House. Sam's Jams was the epitome though, especially for local music like Junk Monkey, Orange Roughies, The Gear, Hysteric Narcotics, Cuppa Joe, Hippodrome who were around at the time. It was always a thrill to go there.
Any Dysers shop at Joes Records on 12th street?
Any one remember the name of the place on Joseph campau
My father's store - Joe's Record Shop [[and recording studio), first on Hastings Street, then on 12th Street [[where it was destroyed in the '67 Riots).
If I may post a link to my story about him:
http://marshamusic.wordpress.com/pag...cord-shop-man/
Kudos for that Marsha, great history...thanks for sharing!
Thank you Gannon! I have written much on that time and place, it is a labor of love.
White's records in Detroit,Sam's Jams and Street Corner music.
There was cunninghans on the corner of 7 mile and vandyke, and next door to the east there was a record store. Bought my first 45's there. Heatwave [[always and forever), Foxy [[Get off), Brick [[aint gonna hurt nobody) and Rufus and Chaka Chan [[Sweet Thing).
I remember 'discovering' Sams jams back around 1980 or so. Back then, most albums went out of 'print' after a while and were impossible to find. It was like a treasure hunt going to Sams, you could find albums that you never thought you'd see again, and sometimes albums you'd never heard of. I was always looking for the mid 60s-early 70s stuff, and found many gems. Looking through all those bins was a pleasure. Now you can find just about anything that ever existed with a couple of clicks of the mouse. While it is great to be able to find all that stuff on Amazon or YouTube, etc, it's not quite the same feeling as those days at Sams.
I'm rediscovering that feeling, Jim. It is much more tangible now, because you know with some discs the one you just picked up while browsing the next used-record store 'might' be the only one you'll ever see...and do you have yet another $5 to spare...$50 and much more for the really special ones...oh, I can tell pursuing this hobby will cost more than golfing and skiing combined. And it is SO worth it. This time, I have to buy duplicates of those favorites, and now I'm spending more on the needle/stylus and even planning a decent vacuum-cleaning system!
Marsha, Marsha, Marsha!
I'm still a bit shocked at our crossing. If I hadn't hung out an hour longer than I intended, we might not have had that conversation at Detroit Contemporary-CAID Sunday afternoon! What a blast meeting you like that, I hope your husband's whiplash from your quick jump out of that chair has healed.
Cheers!
John
Add the Record Collector [[I think that was their name) on 9 Mile in Ferndale. Closed early January.
Oh my goodness Gannon! What a pleasant shock! Yes, I literally jumped out of my chair and hugged your neck! LOL!
And yes, if I hadn't said "Marsha Music" you would not have made the connection. How nice to meet you, how nice to meet someone from DetroitYes!
You're a sound guy, and I have a soft spot for sound folks; reminding me of those years I spent watching my father fool around with recording machines. I've spliced quite a lot of Scotch audio tape in my day too, at his record shop.
Yes, it was a wonderful surprise, meeting you.
So, does anyone here remember an old curmugeon called "The Mad Russian"? He was a record wholesaler on Hastings Street, and I used to go there with my father to buy records - even after most of Hastings was gone, and there was just a lone strip of storefronts remaining on the banks of the Chryler diggings.
I believe that he was a Jewish guy, and he had a big grey white beard and a cantankerous, crotchety way about him. He used to fuss and fume and putter around when we'd go to buy records, but he's always have a penny candy or a joke for my little brother and I.
We'd go there before going to our record shop in the mornings and I'd try to steer my daddy to the new Motown and Soul sounds, away from the old blues records that didn't sell much anymore.
The old Russian knew that I was also trying to buy an extra Temptations or Beatles record for myself, and he'd go along with it - with a wink in my direction.
Ross Grand River and Griswold, brough used records little place next to Stone Burlesque
Jeff never did close the Record Graveyard, but moved from the Caniff location next to Paycheck's [[after selling everything in the building) to his house at 2610 Carpenter. He'd rented a floor of the tall building on Jos. Campau down the street from Wendy's [[one of his former locations) where he kept tons more records that he used to stock the new location. He still does more business on ebay than walk-ins.
Cetnar's Records on Joy Rd. next to some hamburger joint near Piedmont Street.
Korvettes, now that brings back memories. My dad me there once a week, record department only, where he would buy his precious classical albums and later cassettes. Then we went on our weekly trip in mid 60's and i brought something home.....The Beatles. He didnt offer to take me on his saturday weekly afternoon journey any more. Bach, Morzart and other classical musicians ruled the "hi-fi" and later stereo console at our house. My precious, Beatles, Stones, Hendrix had to be hidden away, never to be played in our house of classical music.
thanks for the walk down memory lane with my late dad.
Lily
I bought my first 45 at Emma Parham's record store on Owen and Oakland. It was not long after that she passed away. Her funeral was the largest I ever witnessed. She taught so many gospel, soul, R&B artists their craft. Many paid tribute to her in song. It felt like the service lasted nearly six hours. I recall the fire marshal having to make allowances for the standing room only crowd at Gt. New Mt. Moriah Baptist Church.
White's Records on Ferry Park. You could jump off the Linwood bus which stopped at the front door, run in and buy that new 45, and race to catch up with the bus.