Past Record Stores

Chatting with the owner of the only remaining 'real' record store in town about local record stores of our youthful past. He recalled one that was only in business for a few months but that for a even shorter while, stayed open twenty-four hours a day. I never knew of such a place. Though had I, I would have loved to drop in at 3:00am once or twice a month ….. The idea seems romantic and groovy to me. In those days (1978 he estimated) I was often still awake at that hour …. because why the hell did we ever need to sleep? And record stores have always been my favorite destination, even over the basketball court.