[Date Prev][Date Next][Thread Prev][Thread Next][Date Index][Thread Index]
Re: [ARSCLIST] Fwd: [ARSCLIST] George Jellinek
Dnjchi@xxxxxxx wrote:
In a message dated 3/11/2008 3:27:12 P.M. Eastern Standard Time,
Dontaitchicago@xxxxxxx writes:
These are great stories. They remind me of one or two, perhaps a bit
different but nevertheless concerning clerking in older record stores.
This will be aimed at a small segment of the list, but does anyone remember
the Radio City Music Store in Hempstead, NY, and salespersons Artie Eisner,
and Swede and Caron Olsen? I learned a great deal about records from them as
a parttime employee while in college. Down the street was Archie Bleyer's
Record Store.
Don Chichester
**************It's Tax Time! Get tips, forms, and advice on AOL Money &
Finance. (http://money.aol.com/tax?NCID=aolprf00030000000001)
Don,
Oh Yeah. At this moment, I'm looking at a Schwann Artist Issue($.95)
from 1966 that I unquestionably purchased at Radio City from Swede. I am
sure that I have some items (catalogs or LPs) that have a stamp or
sticker on them with the store name and address (Front Street?, Main?,
Fulton? its too many decades for my mind to leap across) and maybe they
will surface once I stop searching for them. I think we corresponded on
this around the time I sent Franz Jolowicz's obit to the list. Anyhow,
1965-68, I was slogging my way through the adolescent pleasures of
Hempstead High School and at 15, 16 years old and my stash of discs
probably numbered in the low 2 digits when I started haunting the
cramped confines of Radio City, down by the bus terminal in beautiful
downtown Hempstead. The rest, as they say, is history. Swede was plenty
helpful, considering the limits of my teenage budget and a rather
limited range of interest, confined at the time to classical music.
Sorry to say that I missed out on Bleyer, though I don't know if it was
due to timing or just not knowing he was there.
Warm, gradually fuzzing, memories. Thanks for bringing it up.
Peter Hirsch