The Broadway Record Center, South Broad Street, The Burg
This is where I bought mamy 45 rpm singles as a young lad.
Afterward I would also go to The Big C at Independence Mall
then the 3 record stores at Quakerbridge Mall when it opened
in the mid 1970s then Toms Record Shop on South Clinton Avenue
in the Burg in the late 1970s. Remember get your card punched
10 times get a free record!! Chester the owner has just passed
away at 85 years old, God bless him ands his family. I am
told he was in a Nazi concentration camp in the 1930s for a
time. Also remember Pacific Appliances with their colorful
diamond shaped letters going along the building as it turns
from South Broad Street to Cass Street.
4 comments:
Mack: Like I said before Chet was a very nice man and never minded you checking out the records. There was a record place on Broad St. heading downtown on the hill around the Capital Theater. I can remember the guy, skinny and sort of mean but not the name of the shop.
Hi Joe:)
Amen about Chester:)
The shop located at the bend of the buiding was Blank's Pharmacy, owned by Noah Blank who was a really nice guy that wore a white tunick every day. He sold candy and a few knick-knacks, and did a superb job with the prescriptions.
Above that is an apartment where the Korona Family lived - not the Albert Korona Furriers located further down S. Broad, but the Korona-Cefelli Furriers directly across the steet, next to the TPD station.
My father owned Pacific Appliance and I remember the beautiful tree-lined streets and the police station across the street.
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