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| From | "Craig Leve" <CraigL@ori.org> |
| Subject | Re: Rhino store in LA closes |
| Date | Fri, 6 Jan 2006 17:16:46 -0800 |
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Yeah, the one I'm thinking of was VERY close to the corner of Wilshire
and Westwood, I think one block south on Westwood, or possibly one block
offset from Westwood?
-c
-----Original Message-----
From: audities-owner@smoe.org [mailto:audities-owner@smoe.org] On Behalf
Of Barry S.
Sent: Friday, January 06, 2006 5:15 PM
To: audities@smoe.org
Subject: Re: Rhino store in LA closes
You may be thinking of Rhino's original Westwood store, which was
somewhat closer to UCLA than the current store, which is a number of
blocks further south than the original.
--- Barry Schlom
> -----Original Message-----
> From: audities-owner@smoe.org
> [mailto:audities-owner@smoe.org] On Behalf Of Craig Leve
> Sent: Friday, January 06, 2006 4:37 PM
> To: audities@smoe.org
> Subject: Re: Rhino store in LA closes
>
> Wow...I gotta say this is living proof "nobody walks in
> L.A."...I mean I grew up in the San Fernando Valley, which is
> suburban L.A.for those of you who don't know the geography
> and found I really had to shake this issue after I left in
> 1988 for grad school. At UC Santa Cruz, my friends would
> laugh as I 'drove' to cross campus. As for the UCLA-Rhino
> Records commute, only in L.A., (and this distance is truly a
> pretty short mile...as I remember) would people call this
> other than 'walking distance'.
>
> I just met a guy up here in Eugene, OR who used to work at
> the Rhino Record store, I'll have to ask him if they got much
> student traffic. But I don't doubt you're right.
>
> -craig
>
> P.s. but as we all know..and I'm not saying otherwise - it's
> not the walk that's killing places like Rhino.
>
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: audities-owner@smoe.org
> [mailto:audities-owner@smoe.org] On Behalf Of Barry S.
> Sent: Friday, January 06, 2006 4:04 PM
> To: audities@smoe.org
> Subject: Re: Rhino store in LA closes
>
>
> Living as I do near Westwood, I add the following:
>
> Westwood Village, which _is_ adjacent to campus, is about 50%
> boarded-up storefronts. And Rhino is around one mile south
> not within walking distance of UCLA or its on-campus or
> campus-adjacent housing. That campus population just doesn't
> shop in the area.
>
> --- Barry Schlom
>
>
>
> > -----Original Message-----
> > From: audities-owner@smoe.org [mailto:audities-owner@smoe.org] On
> > Behalf Of Michael Coxe
> > Sent: Friday, January 06, 2006 2:42 PM
> > To: audities@smoe.org
> > Subject: Re: Rhino store in LA closes
> >
> > From one story... - michael
> >
> >
> > http://www.calendarlive.com/music/cl-et-rhino06jan06,0,4759714
> > .story?coll=cl-home-top-blurb-right
> >
> > Rhino founder Richard Foos, speaking in dejected tones,
> said Thursday
> > that it "had become very apparent that it was too difficult
> to go on."
> > The store's lease expired and Foos opted to lock the doors.
> > The store plans a Jan. 21 parking-lot sale that will be part wake,
> > part fire sale.
> >
> > "But we are hoping now for a white knight to show up and buy the
> > inventory and the name and hopefully carry on the
> tradition," he said.
> > "It was a very emotional decision but this is where it's at.
> > Now in Westwood you have no free-standing record stores.
> You have one
> > of the largest colleges in the country and no independent record
> > store. That says a lot."
> >
> >
>
>
>
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