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| From | "Jaimie Vernon" <bullseyecanada@hotmail.com> |
| Subject | Re: record shops will not vanish |
| Date | Tue, 01 Jun 2004 02:34:43 -0400 |
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At Date: Tue, 01 Jun 2004 00:35:53 Stewart wrote:
>Wow, so I never even made it into the BIG Peter Dunn stores! I only ever
>shopped at the relatively small one in the Annex, on Bloor about two blocks
>off of Bathurst. I think there was a Morning Glory store next door. Even
>that one was filled with bizarre treasures: the year that they closed, I
>bought a big stack of 50s-vintage 7" EPs on the Russian state label
>Melodiya of Lithuanian and Ukrainian folk music. And you gotta love any
>store that slips random Xeroxed Bible pages into the bag with your records.
> Not even like pages of the Psalms or anything, I once got a page that was
>just a random page from Leviticus telling me when to plant my crops!
Peter's a really nice guy and it was sad to see him retire from the biz....I
was at the Lakeshore store the weekend he closed a few years ago....loaded
up my entire van with product....11 milk crates worth of LPs. I think I
spent $300 total.
Though there were only ever 4 stores total (the 4th store was on College),
he had custom dust sleeves printed with the company logo (a black and white
cartoon cat) for any product that came in without inner sleeves. Everything
else he had stamped with those cryptic Bible quotes....most of my collection
looks like I bought it at a church bazaar!!
Jaimie Vernon,
President, Bullseye Records
http://www.bullseyecanada.com
Author, Canadian Pop Music Encyclopedia
http://www.canoe.ca/JamMusicPopEncycloPages
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