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I hope this gets posted all right. I seem to have problems about doing that. But I mean well. The message about Dayton's in NYC rings a bell for me. I remember being in Manhattan in 1974/5. A friend took me to Dayton's and other stores. Wasn't there also Darton's? And the Seventh Avenue Record Exchange. A small shop with all of the records on shelves behind the counter. I was especially eager to get Victor LM-1760, Tchaikovsky Violin Concerto with Milstein, Munch, and the BSO. A short-lived LP, even then long out of print. The proprietor had one and pulled it off the shelf. After some conversation he said "$20.00." I was a penurious kid then, and had to say no. (I later found a nice copy for much less.) I was told later that the owner of the store had been murdered by some robber who came in during the day and instead of just letting him get away, the owner chased him out onto Seventh Avenue, with which the robber shot him to death. I remember that his widow went on with the Seventh Avenue Record Exchange for a while thereafter. My friend and I were in NYC then and old LPs came up at Ludus Tonalis. Someone said, referring to the Seventh Avenue widow, "have you checked with the spider lady?" Steve Smolian and perhaps others will know the entire, correct stories. Don Tait