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As someone who was heavily into punk/post punk etc in high school,I get a very creepy feeling reading this.It makes me feel very old indeed,especially since this was all about breaking away from the past into something new.I also feel very fortunate,as a child,say age 5-13,to have gone into record stores that had both new stock.and bins of records that dated back as far as the 1940s,that had been there since new.A couple of these stores still had listening booths.The last store I recall that had such booths,was this store I went in in 1979-80.that dated from the late 1930s.It was huge,cavernous,dusty,and kind of run down.My kind of place.It was obviously past it's former glory,and closed a couple of years later.It had this great art deco interior with jazz musicians and dancers painted on the wall.At one time they had sold musical instruments,but ran out of room,because they had so many records and sheet music.I still have  some 60s blues Lps,early 50s R&B 78s,and rare New Mexico 60s garage and psychedelic 45s I got there. I wonder how many photos of such places in there prime still exist though.  Roger > Date: Sat, 10 Aug 2013 18:51:01 -0700> From: [log in to unmask]> Subject: Re: [ARSCLIST] Where the Music Used to Live> To: [log in to unmask]> > This is great!  As I've mentioned before, this is what we need to do for> the earlier era of the 30s into the 60s.  I'm glad he included The> Record Hunter, Jay, because I always talk to my daughter, Leah, about it> and point to the location every time we are passing by coming from the> Library.  I'm about to post the picture on facebook for her, and will> post the link to this blog on facebook and the 78-L.  > > Mike > Biel  [log in to unmask]  > > -------- Original Message --------> From: Music Hunter <[log in to unmask]>> > Dear friends,> > My head cashier of my Record Hunter days ( & still a good friend )> > just sent me a blog article that I think many of you will find> > interesting.> > > http://vassifer.blogs.com/alexinnyc/2013/08/where-the-music-used-to-live.html            Have fun walking down memory lane.  Jay Sonin> >