Re: [ARSCLIST] Other memorable record stores

[David Lennick <dlennick@xxxxxxxxxxxx>]

There was also that nice Mr. Meltzer, who ran the shop where I bought my first
Florence Foster Jenkins 78s for $2 apiece in 1968, but who then pulled a couple of
fast ones on me a year or two later (promised originals, handed me bad dubs or tapes
spliced up the yingyang).

dl

Don Tait wrote:

>   I'm not a New Yorker, but I remember record-hunting on my visits in the
> 'seventies and how great it was. So many places indeed. There was also a place on
> (I think) 81st Street just west of Broadway that dealt in 78s. It was run by
> Mr. and Mrs. Hirsch. I'm having a memory lapse and can't remember the store's
> name ("The Opera Box"?), but they specialized in vocal 78s. Friends
> (especially Andy Karzas from the early 'fifties onward) and I got some good things
> there. They advertised and were nationally known; a friend of mine in Chicago
> bought from them regularly through the mail.
>
>   Steve Smolian mentioned Ernie LeMire and his wife on 7th Avenue. Would that
> have been the Seventh Avenue Record Exchange? I remember it, Ernie, and his
> wife well. Steve also mentioned that his wife was "a real toughie." I was in
> Ludus Tonalis (another neat place) in the mid-'70s after Ernie was murdered by a
> robber. I asked about an out-of-print LP. They didn't have it. The clerk said
> "have you asked The Spider Woman?" When I asked who that was, he said only
> "Seventh Avenue." Not a nice thing to say to a stranger about the widow of a
> murder victim I guess, but evidently Steve's opinion was widely shared.
>
>   Don Tait
>
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