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The Record Store Years

Hugh Jones

A memoir of 25 years (1975-2000) spent working in the world of records & music in Seattle, with side trips into writings on Led Zeppelin and other adventures from my musical life.

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The Record Store Years 62) The Ave Store and The [Almost] Glory Years

By the fall of 1994 when we opened the big Ave store vinyl had pretty much faded from the sales picture, but we still had a lot of it on hand – mostly in storage in the back room at the big Bellingham store. As an experiment, we decided to ...

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The Record Store Years 61) UD Expansion 1994: GC Grad School Pt. 2

We were able to get back to work on Nelly Stallion not long after the shutdown, and the ensuing three months it took to remodel and set up the space were both challenging and incredibly educational for me, which is why I refer to it as ‘Gen...

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The Record Store Years 60) U-District Expansion 1994: GC Grad School Pt. 1

Following the opening of the Bellevue store in 1985 and the last Bellingham relocation in 1988, Cellophane Square’s ambitions for further growth turned towards the city of Tacoma, about 30 miles south of Seattle. At the time Tacoma’s popula...

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The Record Store Years (Side Trip): Launching Proximity 2.0 Pt. 2

Following our initial meeting in London, Ross Halfin was true to his word. He didn’t start supplying me with photographs right away – the first images to appear in the ‘zine went along with an interview I did with him in 1996 on the release...

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  • Hugh Jones

    I am a writer, musician and carpenter living in Seattle, Washington. I spent 25 years (1975-2000) with a small chain of Seattle-area record stores known as Cellophane Square, and also published the Led Zeppelin fanzine "Proximity" during this time.

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