WAIT WAIT WAIT vinyl records--remember those???
dukeofdelridge
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Record bar to open in my neighborhood.
Will ASCAP show up before the money runs out? Can you really play entire album sides for smartphone babies? Would you want to?
The restaurant/bar scene is full of shit, always, but comeonbrowtfsrsly
I have an idea, it's like, like a coffeeshop right? And we'll go for an early 90s Mission vibe right? And we'll sell coffee to the people in the neighborhood and what we'll have is some speakers right and they'll be hooked up to a record player and we will call it THE COFFEE SHOP and oh wait that was just a coffee shop my friend ran in the Mission in the early 90s and I guess it was just a coffee shop and that's how coffee shops always were nevermind
Gumbo and Zep?
I'm gonna go opening day and order off the secret menu: I'll take some tortilla chips with bean dip onna stoark reality, ANIMAL STYLE RAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAH
honestly though isn't the searchable online database (the contents of which is brrrzzzzzzz wtf) pushing it for the lawyers? That's still a thing, right?
Also, extra note: this appears to be a part of little bar complex zone that used to be the location of Fallout, the mainest punk skate comic shop of my youth. It's super weird.
I keep looking around for everyone to pause and break into laughter. The entire world is bullshit upon bullshit right now.
Will ASCAP show up before the money runs out? Can you really play entire album sides for smartphone babies? Would you want to?
The restaurant/bar scene is full of shit, always, but comeonbrowtfsrsly
I have an idea, it's like, like a coffeeshop right? And we'll go for an early 90s Mission vibe right? And we'll sell coffee to the people in the neighborhood and what we'll have is some speakers right and they'll be hooked up to a record player and we will call it THE COFFEE SHOP and oh wait that was just a coffee shop my friend ran in the Mission in the early 90s and I guess it was just a coffee shop and that's how coffee shops always were nevermind
Gumbo and Zep?
I'm gonna go opening day and order off the secret menu: I'll take some tortilla chips with bean dip onna stoark reality, ANIMAL STYLE RAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAH
honestly though isn't the searchable online database (the contents of which is brrrzzzzzzz wtf) pushing it for the lawyers? That's still a thing, right?
Also, extra note: this appears to be a part of little bar complex zone that used to be the location of Fallout, the mainest punk skate comic shop of my youth. It's super weird.
I keep looking around for everyone to pause and break into laughter. The entire world is bullshit upon bullshit right now.
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This looks like a bar with a record player and a bunch of records from their granddad's collection.
There was a very successful Portland bar/record store called Hall of Records. DJ/breaks oriented. It became too much of a late night bar for the owners and they moved on.
There was/is a coffee shop/tavern/record store once called The Record Room and now called Turn Turn Turn. Hipster oriented.
A bar that has a record player? I imagine that is every other bar in hipster Portland, but I don't go out much.
Any way, these guys need to quit flossing their Elton John and Statler Bros records.
The first had a lot of guys in motorcycle leather going in and out.
The second had a lot of Harleys parked out front.
I never paid either much attention, but eventually I noticed the leather bar didn't have any bikes parked in front, and the only people in the biker bar were women.
:weaksauce: :cry: :icegrill: :f-u: :liljohn:
I forget the area.
Halcyon. Boerum Hill. They moved to DUMBO and got rid of the coffe shop/bar/furniture and focused on records only.
http://halcyontheshop.com/pages/about-us
"hot spot", please...
hot like dead hobo feet... that piece of shit place was the first of many pretentious bullshit places to ruin my old neighborhood. First telltale sign of a tidal wave of shit to roll in.
I was on Wyckoff bet. Smith & Hoyt which def. is Boerum Hill. That shit coffee shop was a couple blocks South on Smith so maybe not Boerum Hill proper.
Yeah, man. There is one in my lil city, as well. Fuck that...
If I ever bought a beer at a place that celebrated the idea of playing the entire album end-to-end...I'd bring whatever Wu-Tang solo LP had the longest most ridiculous interludes just to watch shit get awkward when they played....
This one comes to mind:
Yeah Smtih Street was gettin traffic back then. Oh well.
Somebody probably said that about you when you were there and so on and so on all the way back to the Native Americans.
Just sayin'.
Carroll Gardens?
surely you guys mean BoCoCa.
It's the old tale of trust fund fueled bullshit stores and garbage fusion restaurants peddling food that should have never been thought up, prepared or eaten by anybody driving out the old places that gave the neighborhood its character. We move in there in '97 when it was all old mom an pop stores, cheap Cuban eateries where you'd get a big plate of delicious food for $5, bodegas offering great and cheap sandwiches etc. then by '99 some bullshit French Jamaican fusion place opened up, the above mentioned Halcyon, shitty boutiques run by homely, cornbread midwestern girls sitting on too much of that old money. Not that I cared much, it was actually a real interesting experience. We moved away in '00 and I kept visiting back every year or so and the speed at which it all went to shit was astonishing. We had paid $750 for a spacious one bedroom. When we moved back to NYC in '08, I looked at an almost identical apt on the same block just for the fun of it and they were asking $2.500. Again, I'm not complaining (we ended up renting a duplex in Park Slope for twice that much) but to me the areas of Brooklyn that still retain some of their original character are very few and far between.
This is Boerum Hill:
Then to the South and Southwest of Boerum Hill there is Carroll Gardens:
If I remember it right, Halcyon was pretty much right on the border.
Hahaha!
Hey, we're not that bad. :(
I used to get real uptight seeing people flip through records with a coffee in one hand, now it'll be a coffee and crumbly muffin?
Id be talking records at 3AM with no where to go until 11 the next morning.
What if the late night diner had records?
I have no problem with the meshing of the two games. Food and wax aint no problem to me if its done right.
If Starbuck can sell Kind Of Blue why couldnt a place have a decent stash.
Why couldnt Paycheck make me a Gin and Tonic without the code word!
It does seem but im mad skeptical having accumulative dead skin and little hairs near vinyl.
The maintenance would have to be exceptional to keep that shit out of the air.
All Cassette Boutique
Climate controlled steez!!
:get_on_my_level:
Barbers do women's hair where you are?
There was an organic food, hippie type spot that opened up down the road from where I used to live in Bristol. Dude who ran it was mates with Mixmaster Morris iirc, who donated a few shelves of his chud to help the store out, so they had a little corner of records. I never bought anything from there, but they used to also have allnighter house party type parties in the upstairs rooms of the shop which were kinda fun.
omg do u even digg bro
I miss Muzik Hut at the Fayetteville (NC) Flea Market Mall. My dude Bob Smytek had heat for days. I have to also big up The Record Hole (Chapel Hill, NC; RIP to the owner), and Nice Price Books and Reader's Corner in Raleigh, NC. They all had the crazy heat back in late 80s/early 90s.
Peace,
Big Stacks ftom Kakalak