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Things You Don't See Anymore Part 3
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I was in the A&A Record Store on Yonge Street in Toronto many times and still have albums I bought there.
The same with the Sam The Record Man Store on Yonge Street in Toronto.
Burlington, Mass.
I got there in 2006 - like all of New England, things are about 20 years behind the curve, so Tower Records still had a brick and mortar store right across the street from the Burlington Mall, where in Dallas all the physical record stores went out of business about 1995. But I only had a few months browsing there, and then POOF Tower Records was kerplunkt just like all the other record stores.
The first Tower Records was built in my hometown - Sacramento, CA. It was a landmark. Well, not an officially designated landmark, but a landmark nontheless.
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Sam The Record Man was where I bought my first LP: Dark Side Of The Moon for 99 cents!I was in the A&A Record Store on Yonge Street in Toronto many times and still have albums I bought there.
The same with the Sam The Record Man Store on Yonge Street in Toronto.
Honest Ed's Department Store in Toronto is gone too. That store had something for everybody.
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I loved going to Toronto for the food, fun and records! Me and my wife had several long weekend stays there.I was in the A&A Record Store on Yonge Street in Toronto many times and still have albums I bought there.
The same with the Sam The Record Man Store on Yonge Street in Toronto.
I found some great LP's on Yonge Street too. We parked our car and never got back in it until we were heading home or maybe to have a few nights in Niagra Falls. We talked about going back but I don't have a Passport...
I don’t understand how “all the physical record stores went out of business” circa ‘95, where you were. I never experienced it. That was way before Napster, let alone the internet itself, impacted mainstream life and buying habits. Tower’s problem was internal, some bad decisions made including an unwarranted expansion stretched the company thin, as I understand it.
I was in record wholesale(One-Stop)in the Midwest starting in ‘79, moved to retail (primarily used, with an emphasis on rare and collectible, but new had a presence)in ‘84, relocated to Los Angeles just as CD’s came in strong(‘91), worked for a local used/new chain for 10 years, incorporating DVD, then went to the big gig, the LA location for the Amoeba mega-stores, ‘01-‘10. Witnessed all sorts of shifts, trends, and changes, but retail sales were still strong, although downloading was definitely impacting then.
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No match for the real Nomad!
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I got it mainly because it’s much larger for band equipment. I’ve had many “station wagons” in my day.
I may have been a bit hyperbolic, but certainly by 2006 when I moved to Massachusetts, in my hometown of Dallas, Peaches was gone, Sound Warehouse gone, Barnes & Noble had only a rather crummy selection, Borders was the only store with a real decent range of records and they were in their terminal decline. Melody Shop and Hillcrest Hi Fi were long gone. I was very pleased to find Tower Records operating a traditional record store like I hadn't seen in Dallas in at least 10 years - and then in a few months it was closed.
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