OT Sam Goody's in Philadelphia

[wagnerfan]

I recall there was a Sam Goodys at 1126 Chestnut in Philadelphia, but
I also seem to remember another one just a block or so down Chestnut
around 9th either near or in the old I Goldberg store -or am I mixing
that up with Franklin Music which was also there around that time?? or
did Franklin Music close down and turn into another Sam Goody's???
Wagner fan

[Kepler]

There were definitely two Sam Goody stores on Chestnut back in the
70s.
Jeff

[David Fox]

The latter.

DF

[wagnerfan]

On Wed, 28 Mar 2012 10:32:36 -0500, David Fox <davidf...@yahoo.com>
wrote:

Yes I seem to remeber it had two floors with stereo equipment on the
second floor. Wagner Fan

[Charles H. Sampson]

IIRC, back in around 2000, there were two Tower stores in
Philadelphia, on Chestnut, not very far from each other. One of them
was two floors, as another responder mentioned but recalling it as a Sam
Goody's.

Charlie
--
Nobody in this country got rich on his own. You built a factory--good.
But you moved your goods on roads we all paid for. You hired workers we
all paid to educate. So keep a big hunk of the money from your factory.
But take a hunk and pay it forward. Elizabeth Warren (paraphrased)

[wagnerfan]

On Wed, 28 Mar 2012 09:36:17 -0700, csam...@inetworld.net (Charles H.
Sampson) wrote:

>wagnerfan <ivanm...@gmail.com> wrote:
>
>> I recall there was a Sam Goodys at 1126 Chestnut in Philadelphia, but
>> I also seem to remember another one just a block or so down Chestnut
>> around 9th either near or in the old I Goldberg store -or am I mixing
>> that up with Franklin Music which was also there around that time?? or
>> did Franklin Music close down and turn into another Sam Goody's???
>> Wagner fan
>
> IIRC, back in around 2000, there were two Tower stores in
>Philadelphia, on Chestnut, not very far from each other. One of them
>was two floors, as another responder mentioned but recalling it as a Sam
>Goody's.
>
> Charlie

No this was before Tower records - there were defintely two Sam Goody
stores on Chestnut. I know there were two Tower records on South
street - one was classical only and the other was everything else -
then Tower moved to Broad Street. Wagner fan

[R. Edwards]

On Mar 28, 7:35 am, wagnerfan <ivanmax...@gmail.com> wrote:

When I was living in Philadelphia in the late 1960s there were five
record stores on Chestnut St. in Center City: Penn Records at 1016
Chestnut, The Record Museum (45s only) near the Corner of 10th, Sam
Goody's at 1125 (later taken over by Joe Franklin, a Goody manager),
Record Mart in the 1500 block, and another Penn Records at 1734
Chestnut, next door to where Di Bruno Bros. is now.

Ray

[Arthur Shapiro]

In article <mjt5n7tlr7qhh0osa...@4ax.com>, wagnerfan <ivanm...@gmail.com> wrote:
>I recall there was a Sam Goodys at 1126 Chestnut in Philadelphia, but
>I also seem to remember another one just a block or so down Chestnut

I don't recall a second one, but defer to those who assert it existed. But I
think we have to remember how spectacular Sam Goody's was. A small record
shop might have "classical" stuff in bins labeled "A", "B", "C", etc.. A
bigger shop mightr break out the major composers - "BACH", "BEETHOVEN", etc. +
the generic "B". Still bigger might break out individual major works -
"SCHUMANN RHENNISH SYMPHONY".

Sam Goody broke out the bins by label and record number - Connoisseur Society
XXX123, Connoisseur Society XXX124, etc. Chained-up copies of Schwann let one
know where to look. Absolutely jaw-dropping.

Art

[wagnerfan]

Yes thats right in its prime it was a great store.
I was recently reading articles on Korvettes - our Northeast
Philadelphia store had a wonderful record department and I read that
the reason why was that one of the owners (no, not a Korean veteran -
thats a myth) was a classical music enthusiast, I had forgotten they
marked their albums with letters A,B,C and then you could check out
each letter's price on the wall - made it easy to change prices way
back when. You can get much more on line now but it just isn't the
same at all. The fun is gone
Wagner fan

[Dufus]

>On Mar 28, 2:22 pm, wagnerfan <ivanmax...@gmail.com> wrote:
> You can get much more on line now but it just isn't the
> same at all. The fun is gone

Indeed. I fondly recall perusing bins at Discount Records in Iowa City
to find a still mint Erato lp of Joao Pires playing Schubert's D.960
Sonata and Op.90 Impromptus , for 99 cents.Or the same store in
St.Paul coming across the Phillips 2-lp set of Rachmaninoff Preludes
played by Constance Keene.

[Paul Goldstein]

In article <jkvllk$lpq$1...@USTR-NEWS.TR.UNISYS.COM>, Arthur Shapiro says...

I still own some LPs that bear the permanent stigmata of purchase at a Sam Goody
store - the razor-blade mark in the lower right-hand corner of the back side,
where the clerk wrote the price on the jacket.

My Sam Goody was in the Walt Whitman Shopping Center, Huntington Station, NY.

[Mort]

Hi,

I remember the original Sam Goody's in Manhattan in 1948, when LPs had
come out recently, and he won a court case that allowed him to sell at a
discount. Sam was often present at the store, to personally give advice
to customers, even when it would mean a smaller sale or no sale. I also
met Harry Lim there several times. He had run and then lost control of
Keystone Records, and although Indonesian, was an expert on American
jazz music. Ironically, his jazz recordings were available for a short
while, about 25 years ago, in excellent remasterings. I have all 12 CDs
from this series,as well as the big box of LPs, which I cherish.

In those days, record store owners knew the music, jazz, classical,
folk, etc., and gave one-on-one advice. Today, many music outlets have
check-out scanners to whom each disc is just a product.

Regards,

Mort Linder

[td]

On Mar 28, 11:43 am, wagnerfan <ivanmax...@gmail.com> wrote:
> On Wed, 28 Mar 2012 10:32:36 -0500, David Fox <davidfox2...@yahoo.com>
> wrote:

>
> >wagnerfan <ivanmax...@gmail.com> wrote:
> >> I recall there was a Sam Goodys at 1126 Chestnut in Philadelphia, but
> >> I also seem to remember another one just a block or so down Chestnut
> >> around 9th either near or in the old I Goldberg store -or am I mixing
> >> that up with Franklin Music which was also there around that time?? or
> >> did Franklin Music close down and turn into another Sam Goody's???
> >> Wagner fan
>
> >The latter.
>
> >DF
>
>  Yes I seem to remeber it had two floors with stereo equipment on the
> second floor.

For a teenager, Dicky seems to have a VERY long memory. Could it be,
just possibly, that he is just another senior citizen like all of us?

Yeah, probably.

TD

[Mort]

> while, about 25 years ago, in excellent remasterings, * on a Japanese label= Nippon Phonogram. I have all 12 CDs

[Bill swindell]

There was a place off Market at 12th called Stero King. They sold
Promo records for cheap. 15 '45s for $1.00 7 albums for $10 Bill

[Alan Lesitsky]

On 3/28/12 7:33 PM, in article 4f739fe3$0$15307$607e...@cv.net, "Mort"

I went to these Philadelphia stores as a kid.
The first Sam Goody store was called "Sam Goodys at Snellenburgs." It was a
large department in the Snellenburgs Department Store. When the department
store closed the store remained in the same location, with an opening at
1125 Chestnut street.

Sam Goody later moved to 906 Chestnut Street and the 1125 Chestnut Street
location was taken over by Franklin Music, one of its competitors in the
1960s and early 1970s.

Then, around 1975, Sam Goody purchased Franklin Music, which meant that
there were two Sam Goody stores on Chestnut Street, each run by its own team
of managers and sales people.

Eventually 906 Chestnut Street closed and I believe 1135 Chestnut Street
remained a Sam Goody store until the chain closed up.

I no longer live in the Philadelphia area, but these were great times.


Al Lesitsky
le...@comcast.net

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[Sol L. Siegel]

wagnerfan <ivanm...@gmail.com> wrote in
news:mjt5n7tlr7qhh0osa...@4ax.com:

The way I recall it, the 1126 store was closed at some point and moved
into the spot near 9th. This would have been 1980ish, before CDs.
But I've been known to be wrong.

I don't recall where Franklin Music was. I remember a good but short-
lived store in the Gallery when it first opened, near the basement entrance
to Strawbridge's, and that Goody's later took it over, after which it
wasn't very good any more. But somehow I don't think that was Franklin
Music. That would also have been ca 1980. (I remember that under their
original management they had a gag composer card for Arthur "Two Sheds"
Jackson.)

- Sol L. Siegel, Philadelphia, PA USA

[wagnerfan]

No the other reply was correct regarding the Franklin Music stores on
Chestnut Street. Wagner fan