The record store in Kubrick’s “A Clockwork Orange”

following Diana Rigg, 1973...Francoise Hardy, 1973

https://pbs.twimg.com/media/Fwv0uElWAAAcSCK?format=jpg&name=900x900

fantastic

for a sec I thought it was The Doors "Strange Days" behind her but nope

https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/thumb/6/65/Carly_Simon_-_Anticipation.jpg/220px-Carly_Simon_-_Anticipation.jpg

The fact that Nick Drake's "Five Leaves Left" is there shows that he wasn't as obscure as people seem to think he was.

"Bryter Layter" peeping out behind Carly, too. And I think that's her own album "La Question" to the right of the turntable.

to the right of five leaves left:

https://i.discogs.com/QqjRbhHpMvropMvmnDlVpMw4rnX8dnJ9leeY_tbNSac/rs:fit/g:sm/q:90/h:600/w:597/czM6Ly9kaXNjb2dz/LWRhdGFiYXNlLWlt/YWdlcy9SLTQxNTc2/MDYtMTM1NzIxNTMx/Ny0xNjE5LmpwZWc.jpeg

The fact that Nick Drake's "Five Leaves Left" is there shows that he wasn't as obscure as people seem to think he was.

wasn't there some kind of plan for a hardy/drake collaboration at one point? pretty sure i read about it somewhere!

Yes, I think you're right.

I remember an Ian MacDonald piece about Nick D where he questions the obscurity thing - when he was at univeosrity in the early 70s, everyone had the albums, he reckoned.

Dolphin's Of Hollywood, circa 1948

https://scpr.brightspotcdn.com/dims4/default/05fb2f8/2147483647/strip/true/crop/1800x1109+0+46/resize/880x542!/quality/90/?url=https%3A%2F%2Fa.scpr.org%2F103606_e1441670831d0144cd918d7eaa7c60d9_original.jpg

https://m.media-amazon.com/images/I/71fl5js4eRL._UF894,1000_QL80_.jpg

https://scpr.brightspotcdn.com/dims4/default/69e87dd/2147483647/strip/true/crop/1800x1109+0+46/resize/880x542!/quality/90/?url=https%3A%2F%2Fa.scpr.org%2F103605_5a7c53e60ad9be75fc07241f645ff3a5_original.jpg

https://i.ytimg.com/vi/PWTBvePj3QI/maxresdefault.jpg

https://media.gettyimages.com/id/74273036/photo/an-interior-view-of-people-shopping-at-producer-john-dolphins-dolphins-of-hollywood-record.jpg?s=612x612&w=gi&k=20&c=RMQhDGRedNlHQPaYtauB4TMBS79gXjVuIRktRAdRdMs=

You were right, these photos are incredibly good. Just reading a bit about the history of the shop - it was open 24 hours?!?!

I missed that, the place must have been really hopping back in the day!

It was the toast of the coast!

It had a radio station in the store! I think i remember hearing about this in an episode on Andrew Hickey's podcast.

what a life

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_Dolphin_(music_producer)

with Billie Holiday

https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/c/ca/John_Dolphin_%26_Billie_Holiday_%28cropped%29.JPG/800px-John_Dolphin_%26_Billie_Holiday_%28cropped%29.JPG

(he's also the guy standing right under the big portrait of him on the wall in the pic before the Billie one)

https://i.imgur.com/a8faQPa_d.webp?maxwidth=640&shape=thumb&fidelity=medium https://i.imgur.io/oPRodEs_d.webp?maxwidth=640&shape=thumb&fidelity=medium

Haha, same guy, right?

OMG, you’re right!

Now I need to watch Morgan Stewart’s Coming Home, in which he also placed the dad, to see if there’s a “disapproving stereo” scene…

The former location of an auto parts store near me is being dressed up for a production. Can we guess the year it is set?

https://i.imgur.com/zmzdNin_d.webp?maxwidth=1520&fidelity=grand

https://i.imgur.com/AVdARmU_d.webp?maxwidth=1520&fidelity=grand

late 1979

Is this anywhere near the filming sites for the alleged PTA Pynchon adaptation?

Huh, I don't know...

(Looks like that book is set in 1984, tho?)

Yeah, good point. Was just curious.

I'm curious too!

Would a 1979 record store have massive poster/murals like that? I don't recall anything that big. Also, those choices are very received wisdom. Blues Brothers, Eagles, The Knack.

Maybe this is remake of Record City!

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Z832IqZLXKs

a film that terrified a zoomer in my household more than Hereditary!

Vineland begins in 1984, but there are flashbacks galore - we're talking non-linear Pynchon time obv. So there could be scenes set in 1979, especially if this is a 'loose adaptation'.

xps That was my thought but the wikipedia page for Tower Records has a photo of their Sunset Strip location that looks just like this (though from a much later date).

Blurry pic from '78

Fake location def. has "cooler" murals (...not that I can identify most of the ones in that pic!)

Nice pics here as well: http://martinostimemachine.blogspot.com/2017/10/the-legendary-past-and-celluloid-future.html?m=1

For all these shows and movies that recreate Tower Records, maybe it would have been easier for them to just keep some open! Surprised at how much I even miss having a chain like that around.

Particularly now that the only national chain carrying a barely respectable amount of music is *Barnes & Noble*.

Fake location def. has "cooler" murals (...not that I can identify most of the ones in that pic!)

That blog post has a better scan of that '78 pic. There's a roof display for the Saturday Night Fever soundtrack! Admittedly, that yellow Firebird >>> the albums in the window (Rainbow: You Can't Kill Rock'n'Roll; two guitar guys are England Dan & John Ford Coley; not sure About the others...fuel nozzle might be Robin Trower?).

Record City is on Prime rn, BTW.

Yeah all those cars parked out front are f'in fire-emoji

https://m.media-amazon.com/images/M/MV5BM2FlZTQ1NTktY2Y1NS00ZjVhLWE5ODEtZWE0ZTcyYmUyNDZhXkEyXkFqcGdeQXVyOTc5MDI5NjE@._V1_.jpg

Still from the film FM (1978)

nice!

I keep seeing them referred to as "paintings", but I always just assumed they were large format vinyl printings or whatever mounted on plywood.

The album cover repros that the Peaches chain used on their facades were hand painted, I'm almost certain.

That's really cool, I didn't know that! Sorry if this is one of those common knowledge things I should have known, but I missed that era and the chains I grew up with were all in malls and had just carboard cut-out things.

I figured hand-painting would be way too labor intensive for anyone to do that! Was it a chain thing? Or did the labels source then?

Someone on Pinterest has a post saying that the Peaches artwork was commissioned to a group from California. They also say, interestingly, that after six months of being displayed on the exterior of the building, the paintings would be displayed inside the store until they sold. That I did not remember.

Cool home movie footage from another point in '78. Starts @ 4:09

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KbNvv0KNTpk

LIVE GRAPE! SGT. PEPPER SOUNDTRACK!