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."
> 
>