I have to admit, I didn’t shop there regularly personally.
From a Vindicator obituary, I learned there was also a Record Rendezvous in Niles. As I understand it, they were part of a chain of Record Rendezvous stores in northeast Ohio. They advertised regularly in the Vindicator as I recall, with lists of the top 10 hits. This was the place where you could go and listen to music before you bought it, particularly on 45’s, and some LP’s. Perhaps the place to go for records at one time was Record Rendezvous in downtown Youngstown on W. And I’ve picked up some great recordings in used record stores–yes, you can still sometimes find me over those record bins! It appears that CD’s are on the ropes as people either download or stream music they want to listen to digitally. Actually for years, I’ve known people who prefer the sound of vinyl, including a number of young listeners.
It has apparently experienced a resurrection. They said back in the late 1980’s that vinyl was dead. I find it amazing that vinyl is making a comeback–I think they were devoting more space to vinyl than to CD’s in this store. I saw this scene yesterday at our local Barnes & Noble and it brought back memories of the hours I spent as a teenager bent over bins of LPs at record stores around Youngstown.
