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Spelling alert: It was spelled Orpheum - not Orphium.
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They probably ran during Bombshelter Videos...

And did I see the briefest glimpse of Riz during the Orpheum ad?
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It’s Record Store Day!
Go back and get ignored by record store employees who think they’re cooler than you, just like in the good old days.
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And wasn't the place you're asking about, Mike, a Cellophane Square?
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@2 is correct on both counts. the orpheum ad also offers a brief glimpse of KUBE's shellie hart.
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@4 yes, it was a Cellophane Square.
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absolutely during bombshelter videos
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@2 - they definitely ran during Bombshelter. I would be very happy if teh magical internets would grant me entire episodes of that show.
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Didn't Cellophane Square move to The Ave, between 45th & 47th? Closed now though. I loved the scuffs bin- $5 banged up CDs that wouldn't always play but somehow managed to rip perfectly. Great way to discover new music.
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Cello Square started on the Ave (originally off of NE 42nd St, later at the location (9) mentions), and also opened shops on Cap Hill and in Bellingham. I think the Ave store was the last to fold.
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@Dougsf: Here ya go.
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The one on Broadway and John was *not* a Cellophane Square, but I'm afraid I can't remember the name. I'll ask around.
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The 42nd Street Cellophane was the one for me. Also:

2nd Time Around on the Ave, along with two other branches within a block or two; Tower Records (University and Lower Queen Anne), Budget Records and Tapes (upper Ave and also Bellevue), Rubato Records (moved a dozen times, last seen in West Seattle), Park Avenue (lower QA), Discount Records, Musicland; more recently Easy Street LQA and Silver Platters LQA (moved to SODO). What was that one called in Belltown, Exotique? There was briefly a used CD place up on 15th on Cap Hill in the 90s. The great Bud's Jazz Records in Pioneer Square. The original (big) location of House of Records on 6th in Tacoma. There was a neat little shop called Disc Connection down by PLU as well. Golden Oldies -- the original on Roosevelt, 45s only (you would have died there, Nipper, James Brown on King and every Stax single for $0.50 each) plus other branches in Everett and Renton; I think only 45th Street and Tacoma are still there. There was another nice store in Everett a few years ago, it's gone too.

I'm old enough to remember when you could buy the latest singles and LPs at any drugstore, too. Bought my first records in a Bartells.
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I worked at Cellophane from 1988-92 in the original Bellevue and Seattle locations (after Scott McCaughey, but during the Dave Crider era).
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Cellophane Square was originally down at 42nd off University before it opened branches. I spent huge amounts of time there, as well as at Time Travelers, Roxy Music, and Second Time Around. Still have a lot of vinyl that originated from those places.
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I know the store you're talking about just off Broadway, but I am blanking on the name too. The guy who ran it was from Texas, I remember that, and I am pretty sure he was in the band Really Red but not positive.
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@16 you are right as U Ron the singer of Really Red owned it. I purchased the "Crowd Control" 45 from him for a mid-90's collector scum price. I also purchased the Andrew Loog Oldham Orchestra lp there too!

As for long gone record stores, I purchased a weird gospel/r&b album from a yard sale that had a sticker on it for a record store in Mt. Baker on 31st Ave. S. No idea what the hell store it is and there was a ton of albums on a U district gas station on Roosevelt before it closed down...good stuff there!
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RIP Respect and Brian Lyon's spot and even JAM, too.
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Oh shit - Rebellious Jukebox anyone?! Purchased tons and tons and still more great albums there thanks to the erudite Mr. Nils Bernstein. Damn it - that place was the jam and I believe Drew Barrymore lived above it for a short *grunge* period of time.

Oh man, I'd walk there after going to Fallout...later to Squid Row. good times, good times!
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@11 WELL HOLY HELL thanks Seandr. Looks like they're still getting them digitized, but glad this much exists.

I still know exactly what 45s I bought at the 42nd ave Cellophane Square. Something about the setup with the 45 bins right by the door getting the store's only bit of sun... they don't come out often, but when I see the sleeves it all comes back to me.

Same goes for the piece of shit guitar with the painted on f-holes I got from 2nd Time Around for $50 that still lives in a closet in my house. Curly hair guy that worked there was all "yeah, this would be good for smashing on stage."
"Oh yeah, totally." But I knew damn well that was all the money I had and I intending on playing that guitar in whatever not-going-anywhere band I was attempting..

I know it was a chain, but lets not forget about the Peaches on the ave. Had some pretty noteworthy in-stores in its day.

I lived around the corner from that Broadway and John at that time. Wasn't it the first Sonic Boom location? No? My memory ain't so hot, and I never went inside seeing as how it WASN'T FALLOUT.

What was (is?) the record store in Pike Place Market? I never found much there, I think it was pretty pricey and filled not-necessarily-the-era-I'm-looking-for, but I do remember it being an alright place to browse.

@13 that place on 2nd ave in that seemed to specialize in things like Esquivel and Ken Nordine? I think you're correct, or Exotique Music (or Records, or something).
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I always remember that when I got A-F of my CDs stolen out of my apt., Cellophane Sq had them all in a stack in the back, along with the name & driver's license # of the Bremerton dirtball who sold them. Roxy Music already had the others out on the floor.
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@20, there's a shop called Holy Cow in the Market. I have no idea how long it's been there, but I just went in for the first time a while back. It's a bit weird, because it's all tourists there, and you get this flow of intrigued teen girls coming in and not having a clue where to even begin to look (or what for) while their concerned-looking parents stand just outside. The guy must be really patient to put up with the looky-loos waddling past, smacking into the racks with their fanny packs as they swivel back and forth.

I found a few goodies in there -- way too much unsorted thrashed junk, though. Part of the price you pay in a record store is supposed to be for alphabetizing at least.
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@13, what happened to Bud? I'm sure he's gone now, but when...? He had a radio show also. The best collection of jazz records ever and he knew them all.
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@19 I loved Rebellious Jukebox, Nils wasn't afraid to stock twee pop and Orange Juice records (it was the early 90s, after all). I think he may have saved my life.

@20 Exotique started out as Mt. Olympus Imports, I believe. Lots of obscure English pop records, Depeche Mode, and prog.

But does anyone remember Corporate Records, set up in the corner of Time Travelers? Bought my first Joy Division 7" there, and used to make the trek in from Issaquah just to pick up the latest issue of the New Musical Express. I think it turned into Acme, before being swallowed up by TT.
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Frequency 8 was too fancy for low fi commercials.
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Hey, Standard Records on 65th and Roosevelt (more or less): not everyone has forgotten you.
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anamolous and om.. yass.
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Anyone remember Tone on Olive Way in Capitol Hill, the tiniest, cutest record store ever? Run by the outstanding synthesizer player David Farrell (now living in NYC), it was about the size of your studio-apartment kitchen, but it was ALL quality goods.
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@ seandr & dougsf, I can't get anything to play from the Bombshelter episodes list. Am I doing it wrong? Thanks for posting this!

323-BOMB
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damn kids.
before cellophane square opened on 42nd, I used to buy used at puss n books, and, also, at a record store on Broadway, just north of the corner of Harrison, where the Pho place is now- cant remember the name, but it was there around 1970, and it was a pretty good store.
Before that, I bought records at the old Markettime Store across the street where Urban Outfitters is- this was before Fred Meyer bought it. Got my copy of "Got Live If You Want It" there in 1965.
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@29 - I think you're doing it the same way I am. Looks like a placeholder site until they get them converted from VHS. The playlists are pretty entertaining, however.
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@20 I loved Peaches too. But they weren't on the Ave. They were in the the strip mall on 45th, the same one that housed the Westernco donut shop.
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@32 - shit, you're right. I had a very vivid picture of their old storefront, but my memory is obviously crap.
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That record store by Broadway was called Sound Affects or Sound Effects. brain fart dissipated!

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