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Model a "Functioning" American Record / Music Store

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Posted by Seamonster on Tuesday, June 21, 2011 12:36 PM

leighant

Boy, the thread is an oldie and moldy, but goody.  Might be an idea for someplace in my Island Seaport.  Meanwhile, I'll just have to settle for LIVE  N scale music.

 http://www.trainboard.com/railimages/data/548/piano.JPG

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You mean to say that structure is in N scale?  Wow, my hat's off to you! Bow

 

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Posted by wjstix on Tuesday, June 21, 2011 10:11 AM

I remember in the early seventies often walking the block or two down to the Hub Shopping Center in my old hometown of Richfield MN, there was a small record store next to the original Hub Hobby Shop so I could check out both new records and new train stuff on the same trip. In the record store I know I used to bug the clerk since it usually took me a long time to make a selection...I generally only had say $3-4 to spend, so was always flipping thru the bargain bins for those $1.99 (or 99 cent) LPs. Since they were the only person there, they had to stay in the store and couldn't go in the back to do inventory or paperwork (or nap or whatever they did back there). I also recall that store was where I used to get my National Lampoon magazines.

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Posted by leighant on Monday, June 20, 2011 5:28 PM

Boy, the thread is an oldie and moldy, but goody.  Might be an idea for someplace in my Island Seaport.  Meanwhile, I'll just have to settle for LIVE  N scale music.

 

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Posted by JimRCGMO on Sunday, June 19, 2011 8:08 PM

For an update to (forgot whose) someone's post about new music stores opening, there's a CD store in our town which originally carried used CD's - and had three CD players with headphones so.... you could listen to them before you buy the CD! (What a novel idea! Smile, Wink & Grin). But in the past year (maybe more than that), they have started carrying "Vinyl" also.

The more things change, the more they're the same (to translate, more or less...). Wink

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Posted by jwhitten on Wednesday, December 9, 2009 4:01 PM

AntonioFP45
Modeling potential:

These stores very much resembled the buildings offered in the DPM kits and Cornerstone series.

 


They had good operational potential too. You could spot many reefers at some stores. Also carloads of twinkies and moon pies  Cool
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Posted by DJO on Wednesday, December 9, 2009 3:09 PM

Glad i saw this thred. woud like to try this idea.  I bought a lot of records in my young days and it woud be nice hearing some 1940 to 1960 hits when running a zephyr.  dorsey brothers, ellington,jerry lee lewis, fats domino, dean martin.  I think it woud be easier if you pipe the music from a computer insted of a cd player.  no? 

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Posted by Dean-58 on Saturday, May 17, 2008 4:06 PM

 fec153 wrote:
Hey, how about Glenn Miller's Chattanouga Choo Choo.

"Pardon me, Roy, is that the cat who ate your new shoes?"  Actually, that would date it in the '40s.  It'd set the mood for a wartime layout BigTime!  Remember the scene in "The Godfather" when Michael and his girlfriend were walking down a NYC street at Christmastime, with Der Bingle and the Andrews Sisters doing their jazzy version of "Jingle Bells"?

 

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Posted by Dean-58 on Saturday, May 17, 2008 9:03 AM

 lupo wrote:
That is a Cool [8D] cool Cool [8D] idea, !
btw: overhere in Holland lots of these oldtime record stores were more music stores, selling records, sheet music and musical instruments ranging from flutes-organs to electric-guitars and drum kits as well. I looked at those instruments fantasizing being able to play the records i bought on those instruments !Cool [8D]Cool [8D]

Did similar businesses were around in the US?

modeling opp.: every thursday at 12 noon a que of eager teens formed outside as the new charts ( dutch equivalent of the billboard hot 100 ) were handed out by the owner .

Sometimes modern jargon and such leave me blank!  Lately, I've been hearing "indie" this and "indie" that, knowing it probably doesn't have anything to do with Herrison Ford--and now the Forum is throwing Cool [8D] Cool [8D] around liberally!  Whazzat?

(Weird: although Lupo's post showed on my monitor as an alpha-numeric in square brackets, when I do it, it comes out "Cool Dude" smilies!  This requires either an explanation and/or investigation by me.)

"Plus ca change, plus c'est la meme chose!"

 

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Posted by chutton01 on Thursday, May 15, 2008 1:08 PM

Just noticed this thread bump (although it did surface a few times in the past year), and wanted to add it has outlived Tower Records (although not the on-line version), which closed late 2006. We also lost our Virgin Mega Store, and Sam Goodys closed down years ago, as well as Coconuts (FYE is still around), and Empire Disc also closed (sad, as it was a great source for low-cost used CDs)...indeed, a recent story in the Long Island Press weekly indicates that the 'Music/Record' store presence on Long Island has reverted from the huge multi-storefronts/freestanding chains stores of the 1980s & 90s, down to cramped, owner-proprietor single-storefront store on 'downtown' streets...kind of like their predecessors of decades gone by.

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Posted by jblackwelljr on Thursday, May 15, 2008 8:16 AM

I tried the DA - it just didn't work for me.  Thank God for the Beatle cut.

In the early 70's, my wife worked at a downtown insurance office across the street from a small music store.  During the Christmas season, they played that singing dog Jingle Bells song through their outside speaker........all day long...... the whole month of December.  To this day my wife runs the other way when she hears that song, no matter who is singing it.

Guess what I have planned for my downtown scene on my layout.   
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Posted by MisterBeasley on Wednesday, May 14, 2008 7:36 PM

Wow, I remember this thread.  Looking back at those who posted to it, the forum has changed as much as the music over 4 years.  Where are those old guys with the DA haircuts?  Not many of us left, I guess.  Gee, just last night I was thinking about The Diamonds...

I didn't put a record shop on my layout.  I thought about it, but in the end, DPM's "Pam's Pet Shop" ended up as an LHS, complete with Lionel signs and a father and sun looking in the windows.

But, I didn't forget rock 'n' roll.  Another DPM building, originally called the First National Bank, is now the Heartbreak Hotel.  I'm planning to get a Preiser "Vampire" which will be scratched into some semblance of Elvis, and the awning proclaims the address on Lonely Street.

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Posted by Wdlgln005 on Wednesday, May 14, 2008 6:43 PM

In the 1950's & 1960's, there was a chance of having some crossover artists from Jim Ed Brown or Stonewall Jackson that may have been country artists but sold more pop records. Look up Eddy Arnold (may he rest in peace). also, some stores seemed to have a collection of classical & other kinds of music. Ernest Tubb's Record Shop got it's start in the 1940's, with mail order country music. (You could order the brittle 78's & have them replaced when the USPS broke them in transit). In some old recordings, you can still hear the bacon frying in the pan. This is best simulated with a simple single speaker.

THe fun comes when you can mix it up with different yupes of music. They may have recorded pop by day, country at night, blues in the evening. Even Ray Charles recorded some country tunes & made it his own.  

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Posted by edo1039 on Tuesday, May 13, 2008 5:28 PM
Ironic you mentioned this topic,I am presently doing one for the DOO WOP era!!
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Posted by modelmaker51 on Wednesday, May 16, 2007 7:11 AM
OK, for the Hippies, here's hundreds of psychedelic posters:

http://www.pooterland.com/index2/art/art.html (scroll down)

(Great for doing a Headshop or Poster Store as well)

For DayGlow posters:

http://www.black-light-posters-pictures-bulbs.com/black-light-posters.html

Just "Save Picture As" and resize the image to suit.

For album covers, instead of scanning, just go to Walmart.com or Amazon and download their album images and again resize to suit.

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Posted by Ibflattop on Monday, November 13, 2006 4:24 AM

Hey I just picked up a Preiser hippie figure off of the e*** a couple of weeks back. I have a VW Microbus and now I just need the right DPM building and I got the Scene for my town.    Kevin

PS I probable need some flowers and peace signs on the bus..........

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Posted by Anonymous on Monday, June 19, 2006 9:56 AM
Wow! Having spent 10 years in the radio business, and having co-owned a used record/CD store for a short time, this is an awesome thread! Pop music is such a cool way to establish a time period! Thought I was the only freak that would have a record store or a radio station on my layout...that is, when I get far enough along to work on the structures. Actually I plan on having more than one radio station. I model in HO, but for the Lionel folks, I have one of their radio station towers that actually has a radio in it so you can listen to your favorite local station.

And I offer this from the complete and total geek world where I reside...I also plan on having a rock concert on my layout. Have not seen this done before, perhaps it has been done. I want to have KISS onstage, surely a huge lighted KISS sign can be made out of Miniatronics items. And of course smoke generators could be placed on the side of the stage. Then I would hide Walkman-type speakers, one on each side of the stage hidden inside huge model speakers with a CD of KISS Alive I, II or III...IV if you wanted to model a symphony.... I would have a tour bus in back, limos, groupies, etc...and the trick here, so you don't have to buy thousands of 1/87th scale fans, is to place the stage facing the edge of the layout so you only have to model the first few rows...now where to find HO scale Bic lighters....hmmmm.
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Posted by Anonymous on Tuesday, January 3, 2006 7:15 AM
QUOTE: Originally posted by TA462

Anybody that lives in the Toronto area must remember "Sam the Record Man" on Younge Street. The place had a huge record out front and at night it would light up and look like it was spinning. I haven't been down there in 15 years, I wonder if its still there.
I was in TO for a La Femme Nikita convention in Oct 2001, and it was still going strong then![:)]
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Posted by loathar on Sunday, January 1, 2006 12:56 PM
Remember in the 70's and 80's the Peaches record chain had those cement slabs out front with the artists hand and foot prints in them.You'll have to model that detail too.
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Posted by AntonioFP45 on Sunday, January 1, 2006 12:09 PM

Chutton,

Thanks for the heads up. I'll have to check that out!


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Well, this topic gets a bump...
Posted by chutton01 on Saturday, December 31, 2005 5:05 PM
Well, this topic gets a bump...

Because, there it is, on Page 88 of the Feb 2006 Model Railroader:
"More than bells and whistles: Add to the Ambience of your layout with period music in the background"
[:(]

Couple this with the RMC article about clipping...er, articles a few months back, and perhaps we can agree 2005 wasn't a highpoint of the model railroading press...
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Posted by AntonioFP45 on Wednesday, December 14, 2005 11:11 PM
Cool Dave!

I'm hoping that someone here actually tries this on their layout. I'm just now getting ready to start building one.

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Posted by DALCruiser on Wednesday, December 14, 2005 8:36 PM
Antonio

Great idea! I had thought about something like this myself, but I'm glade you have had such a good response to the post. It has given me even more ideas than my original plan.

I also thought about using the small speaker and CD to add music to a drive-in burger shop like Mel's or A&W drive-in.

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Posted by edo1039 on Wednesday, December 14, 2005 3:14 PM
In the early fifties we had a record shop that blared out the tunes of the day,like the MOONGLOWS,DUPREES,the FLAMINGOS, PLATTERS,and one song that still lives on to today,"IN THE STILL OF THE NIGHT" those were great times.
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Posted by SPFan on Wednesday, December 14, 2005 3:06 PM
Record stores in the '50s had listening booths where you could pick out a 45 and take it into the booth. Most stores had 1/2 dozen or more booths. I think by the '60s most the booths were phased out but you could request the clerk play a record for you. A CD player would work as would an MP3 player. If you had an old computer laying around you could put it under the layout and have play songs randomly.

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Posted by AntonioFP45 on Wednesday, December 14, 2005 2:53 PM
Hello Maureen,

Interesting idea!

I certainly do remember the long hair. I remember that at times from a distance it was hard to tell girls and boys apart as long hair (or big afros) were the common styles.

Although with Preiser figures, it's easy to model a scene of people being "beaten up", or even "Vietnam War Protest" mobs violent scenes just "aint my bag!" (as we used to say back then!Wink [;)])

I would prefer to go with groups of teens just "hanging out" in front of the record store listening to the Doobie Brothers and Isaac Hayes.

High Greens!

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Posted by TrainFreak409 on Tuesday, July 26, 2005 3:21 PM
Gotta love records. I am listening to mine right now. That's kind of ironic, knowing I am only 16... Elvis, Sugar Hill, Billy Joel, and the rest, I love my records.

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Posted by AntonioFP45 on Tuesday, July 26, 2005 3:06 PM
QUOTE: Originally posted by bcawthon

I think if I was going to do a 50s-era record shop, I would put it next to a corner drugstore or burger joint so you could have the soda fountain crowd mixing in with the youngsters picking up the latest 45s.

I began listening to the radio in the late 1950s and would love to hear some of the music I liked back then: Preston Epps, Duane Eddy, early Ventures, etc., etc.


..............and Fats Domino, and Buddy Holley, and Dean Martin. Good times!

Don'f forget to have a GMC "old look" bus at a nearby bus stop unloading several record shop passengers!

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Posted by bcawthon on Monday, July 25, 2005 10:40 AM
I think if I was going to do a 50s-era record shop, I would put it next to a corner drugstore or burger joint so you could have the soda fountain crowd mixing in with the youngsters picking up the latest 45s.

I began listening to the radio in the late 1950s and would love to hear some of the music I liked back then: Preston Epps, Duane Eddy, early Ventures, etc., etc.
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Posted by Anonymous on Monday, July 25, 2005 10:01 AM
In early sixties the music was Elvis, Bobby Darin,Shirelles,by '63 the english invaded.the Beatles,Stones,Dusty Springfield,'67, you had Hendrix,the Doors,Cream,Aretha,Lovin Spooful,woodstock hadDylan,Crosby,Stills and Nash...Each year had it's styleMost music stores back then were in lower rent buildings, but in a decent part of town, I remember posters in windows,most clientel were younger crowds.a few old hippies. Alot of stores in 60's-70's sold water pipes,zigzag and incense...

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