7/13/2023 0 Comments Vintage vinyl records closingJung’s advice for newbie collectors was to start in the classical section. He dug into the boxes fishing out a Barbara Streisand record, Peter Paul and Mary and even a zither record from Austria. Jung maneuvered through the basement’s plastic crates of records, his towering frame coming just short of the ceiling. “I hate to see it go,” Fish said, “just puts a little tiny crack in the foundation in wonderful of what is North Beach.” “There’s that old record smell - dusty and musty.”įish said the closure of the store would chip away at San Francisco’s musical culture which in recent years has seen the departure of nightclubs and small independent music stores. “Downstairs is all about the smell,” Fish said. Railroad Industry Sues to Block New Locomotive Pollution Rules in California North Beach artist Jeremy Fish stood outside the shop reminiscing about his many trips into the basement’s record collection as a college student in the nineties. In the front window, almost in symbolic tribute, a surf green record player was laden with cobwebs. The store is filled to the brim with old stereo receivers, turntables, keyboards - trombones and French horns hang from the ceiling - a KISS Paul Stanley doll stared out from the counter as Jung slipped a Benny Goodman record on the turntable, dropped the needle and filled with shop with the swirling swoops of Goodman’s clarinet. “That’s one of the reasons we’re kind of hurting,” Jung said, “is we don’t have as much foot traffic as we used to have.” He blamed the store’s pending demise on competition from online services like Amazon, changing shopping habits of young people and a changing North Beach that has left some small businesses struggling. Jung said despite the booming interest in vinyl records, business at the store has dropped to an untenable low - even for a place that long thumbed its nose at the technological age. “It’s a little overwhelming for a lot of people,” admitted store manager Christian Jung.īut these days, the banner above the front door of the Green Street shop’s iconic crumpled sousaphone breaks the bad news for record collectors who’ve made pilgrimages to this funky neighborhood shop for the last 24 years - “Store Closing Everything Must Be Sold.” Make your way through the warren of vintage hi-fis, down the stairs into the basement and you’ll encounter 50,000 records divided into categories, but otherwise not in any particular order. Stacked everywhere are a cacophony of vintage stereo equipment, 8-track tapes and old guitars. When you step into 101 Music in San Francisco’s North Beach, it’s as if time peeked in the door and bolted the other direction.
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