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Licorice Pizza and other Record Shops
By: Chiprocks1 Date: November 8, 2011, 8:58 pm
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[CENTER]Licorice Pizza
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I miss this place. This was the ultimate in cool for a "big
chain" franchise. It was primarily located in Southern
California, so most of you peeps probably have never heard of
Licorice Pizza. So, what made this place better than the other
Record shops of the day? First off, as a kid, it just seemed
larger than life with all the Music Posters hanging on the wall,
the cutout displays, the rows and rows of vinyl LP's, the
counter that was too tall for me to even reach when paying for
my records, the music blasting over the P.A. System and the
crown jewel in making me a fan for life...free licorice. Red
Vines! I stayed away from the black crap. But the Red Vines were
awesome! You didn't even have to buy anything in the store and
they would give you a rope to take home.
Fun fact, the last record/vinyl I bought from my local store was
KISS' Creatures Of The Night. I bought most of my KISS albums as
well as pretty much every thing else there. I miss that place
for a lot of reasons. There are certain stores from my childhood
that I wish still existed and this is one of them.
So, post here your favorite Record store then and now. Give me
something good to read!!
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Re: Licorice Pizza and other Record Shops
By: Chiprocks1 Date: November 8, 2011, 9:03 pm
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FYI, the Licorice Pizza Logo STILL kicks so much
ass!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
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I wish I could find information about the person that did the
artwork though. :::sigh:::
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Re: Licorice Pizza and other Record Shops
By: Mac Date: November 9, 2011, 8:46 am
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Licorice Pizza, based in Glendale, where I was born ;D, opened
its first store in Long Beach in 1969. Founder James Greenwood
borrowed the company's name from remarks made in a comedy sketch
on an album by '60s folk singers Bud and Travis (I also read
something about Abbott and Costello). The entertainers mused
about sprinkling their records with sesame seeds and selling
them as licorice pizzas.
"Jimmy thought that was funny and that it might make a good name
for a store," said Ruth Sims, senior vice president and general
manager of Licorice Pizza.
It is an excellent logo. Love it. I just may buy a t-shirt
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Re: Licorice Pizza and other Record Shops
By: Mac Date: November 9, 2011, 8:47 am
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[glow=red,2,300]Peaches Records and Tapes[/glow] is one of my
first experiences with music. It was the chain store to go to.
[glow=red,2,300]Vintage Vinyl[/glow] (not a chain) was
introduced to me by a fellow fan of music. He invited me one
Saturday to go downtown to Soulard Market where these two guys
set up a table with 3 ‘peaches’ crates full of used LP’s. They
were fairly new, in perfect condition. I distinctly remember
buying Blonde’s Eat To The Beat. It was kind of a trip to go
downtown, so I didn’t do it much, but the guys business expanded
so quickly they eventually wound up buying an old movie theater
in The Loop, a very eclectic area primarily with college
students. When I was heavy into music buying, this was the place
to go. I go rarely now (I have nothing to do with vinyl any
longer), but on occasion I do visit just to see how the place is
doing. They are still going strong. Those days of flipping
through the vinyl bins bring back so many great memories.
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Logo is OK, not as cool as Licorice
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Re: Licorice Pizza and other Record Shops
By: Chiprocks1 Date: November 9, 2011, 8:48 am
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[quote author=Mac link=topic=456.msg3386#msg3386
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It is an excellent logo. Love it. I just may buy a t-shirt
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I've been contemplating buying one myself since last night when
I did a search for Licorice Pizza and came across the shirts.
Great minds........
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Re: Licorice Pizza and other Record Shops
By: Chiprocks1 Date: November 9, 2011, 9:17 am
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[CENTER]Tower Records - San Diego / Sports Arena Blvd.
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Tower Records - Los Angeles / Sunset Strip
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When Licorice Pizza was sold and then eventually morphed into
Sam Goody's, I eventually wound up going to Tower Records...a
lot. This was my home away from home for the next few hundred
years. Even though TR was pricey, they always had cool sh*t with
the posters, tshirts, keychains and all that other stuff they
would pack into their stores that made it an event to just shop
there. Even though we had two Tower Records in San Diego, I
stuck mainly with the one closet to home. The top pic (I didn't
take the pic. Not mine) is right across the street from the San
Diego Sports Arena (as seen in Almost Famous
HTML http://pennycan.createaforum.com/dvd's-blu-rays/almost-famous-untitled-(2000)/).<br
/>The other Tower Records in San Diego that I would only go to
when I would swing by Guitar Center was out past San Diego State
University.
Whenever I was in LA, I would hit Tower Records on Sunset Strip,
which is the 2nd picture above and can also been seen in Tom
Petty's video for Into The Great Wide Open. I wish I could find
video of Licorice Pizza somewhere. It doesn't have to be a music
video. News report of something would be enough for me.
:::sigh:::
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Re: Licorice Pizza and other Record Shops
By: Chiprocks1 Date: November 9, 2011, 9:40 am
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I was talking to my friend last night about Licorice Pizza and
the talk turned back to Tower Records and we ended up talking
about the night we both went to the midnight release for Guns 'N
Roses Use Your Illusions 1 & 2 down at Tower Records (Sports
Arena Blvd). It was so random to run into him down there as I
hadn't seen or talked to him in a couple of years. I had just
gotten off from work around 11:30 that night and went straight
to TR to get my copies. The line was pretty long. As I started
walking toward the end, in the middle some dude called out to
me. It was him. I cut in line. I'm an evil person that got his
copies sooner, rather than later.
Bwahahahahaaha.
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/>Evil!
Thanks buddy!
They had a News Crew out there filming live that night. I know I
have it somewhere on tape. But I have moved so much since then,
that I have no idea what tape it's on or where the tape even is.
Bah!!!
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Re: Licorice Pizza and other Record Shops
By: boyinblack80 Date: February 17, 2012, 11:17 pm
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I've been to that tower in LA a few times....last time I went
would have been back around 1988 or so...I am pretty sure it's
long gone.
the tower here was really great....and as chip has already
said...if you were a kid growing up in PB during the 70's
Licorice Pizza was a lot of fun. Posters, records, lots of
blank tapes so you could make copies of your records....and free
licorice..which I don't even like....but the bag was always
super cool
:)
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Re: Licorice Pizza and other Record Shops
By: boyinblack80 Date: February 17, 2012, 11:20 pm
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I bought my first CD's there too back in.....man I want to say
1981...no probably 1982.....Rush only had 2 CD's out at the
time (most bands didn't have back catalogs out yet...only their
most current records were being put to disc) so my first CD's
were Rush ; Moving Pictures and Signals, The Firm, and also Deep
Purple Perfect Strangers.....I remember also when the Rolling
Stones who I think were the first band to actually go BACK and
release older albums...it was actually a very big deal and
seemed SO strange at the time/
""whoa you can get an OLD album on CD.""
crazy how times have changed.
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Re: Licorice Pizza and other Record Shops
By: Chiprocks1 Date: February 17, 2012, 11:21 pm
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I have to find the last known copy of my Licorice Pizza paper
bag. It's in the 2nd garage in a box. I made sure to double bag
THAT bag and then add a force field around it. This is priceless
to me. I can't remember if they ever had plastic bags like Tower
Records did. Not sure anyone was really using plastic bags back
then. But the paper ones were f ucking awesome and I would just
draw and redraw the logo all the time.
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