48th Street = Desolation Row. Bye-Bye Brick and Mortar Music Stores

there's a sam ash in forest hills -- took me a while to realize this, and was surprised to run across it

Walked by there recently. They have a surprising amount of single page sheet music as well as books, although some of the latter seem well-thumbed by decades of customers- kind of a Store That Time Forgot. Although I did see some guys go in there to try out -what are those things called again?- oh yes, Lunchbox amps.

Went by Park Row today and saw that most of the J&R stores are closed now, there is mainly only the one on the corner of Broadway.

That last J&R is of course gone. Rudy's reopened on Broome Street.