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.
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.
It takes an iron man to play with a toy iron horse.
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.
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.
lupo wrote:That is a cool 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 !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 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!"
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"?
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?
AntonioFP45Modeling potential: These stores very much resembled the buildings offered in the DPM kits and Cornerstone series.
These stores very much resembled the buildings offered in the DPM kits and Cornerstone series.
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! ). 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...).
Jim in Cape G. MO
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.
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.
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.
You mean to say that structure is in N scale? Wow, my hat's off to you!
..... Bob
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