What can I say, it was the the ONLY place to buy your records back in the day! Owned by Ron & Laverne Novak two wonderful human beings I loved these people. I had a running tab that they would let me pay off on pay day what more did a teenager need? The right side wall was filled with the top 100 Billboard albums (all of them) for that week as seen in the color photos. Records were a way of life for me I loved the darn things & still do. You always had to have scotch tape & pennies for your needle when it wore down. Especially when your spun your records backwards to try & figure out if Paul really was dead & if it really mattered anyway. Has anyone figured out how to spin the remastered Beatles CD's backwards yet? One of them had to be the Walrus, or that 28IF license plate on that VW was a lie......
Top photo left unknown person, right Brookside Homeboy.
Middle photo Craig Burnaugh & Andy Mclenon.
Photo's courtesy Paul Novak.
Ok, all you aging freaks out there... The Elvis album cover is easy, but what is the other one ? (I should know . . . I do know . . . but, it's that brain cell thing again...) (I'm locked on "Ten Yeeaarrs After" but I'm sure I'm wrong).
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Hey Homeboy.... Great guess but it's not Ten Years After. Circle3Ranch (Scott) called me and asked if I knew who it was. It's King Crimson's first album, 'In the Court of the Crimson King' recorded in 1969.
ReplyDeleteGreat job you're doing on this site. Keep up the awesome work!
Ironside...
Bob Fultz Class of '74
Seagate Homeboy...
ReplyDeleteThree aging freaks are better than none.
:)~
Scott
Circle3Ranch
Hey Ironside,
ReplyDeleteThanks for the info. I think I had the 8-track... dang, I shoulda known that.... Well, at least I remembered the cover. Once again another void has been filled....
Giving credit where credit is due:
Brookside Homeboy is the "chief-cook-and-bottle-washer" around here... and does a heck of a job (tip-o-the-hat); all I do is throw my "Salvo" tablet in the fountain occasionally (that's an inside joke).
Seagate Homeboy
Ersatz editor-at-large
I remember the Record Bar and Mike Novak. I think he's a brain surgeon or something now! Who knew? He certainly didnt look like one then! I was really happy to have this place in our sleepy little town at the end of the earth. I think we had only two radio stations G93 with Brian...?? and of course good ole WEVU Seaview Naples On the Gulf!!
ReplyDeleteHey Homeboy! First wanted to say what a great site, brings back so many memories of growing up in Naples in the 50's and 60's. My step brother Phillip Hadley was the orginal owner of the Record Bar. Still lives in Naples. You will have to contact him about the opening party for the store at my house on Portside Drive. We thought maybe 25-30 people would show up. Turned out over a couple of hundred and the police also. My father was so mad when he returned from his trip to Mexico and found burns in the carpet, bottle caps in the pool, items stolen. What a night, even made the newspaper as "the place and party to be at". What a great time looking back though. I still hold it over Phillip's head though.....
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Unknown person is Ed Watson. haha
ReplyDeletepaul thanks for the memories. let me know if you get this. craig
ReplyDeleteNot sure if you knew, but Craig passed away two years ago. :(
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