The House Of Oldies

It’s been reported that vinyl records are making a comeback these days, but threre’s a store in Greenwich Village where it never went away. The House of Oldies had been selling vinyl and only vinyl on Carmine Street just off Bleecker for over 50 years. So today I thought we’d take a trip to this house that vinyl built.

And here we are on Carmine Street at the House Of Oldies. That name could also be used for a cool senior citizens home.

This sign says it all.

I wonder if Diane and Paul Prianti shop here?

Wow, this store is jam-packed with vinyl. No CD's, no records, just vinyl, vinyl and more vinyl.

Here's the owner of House of Oldies, Bob Abramson. The store was originally located around the corner on Bleecker Street when it opened in 1962. Bob took it over in 1968 and in 1980 moved it to this location on Carmine Street. Bob's a really nice guy and told me that with the records stored below the store, The House of Oldies has around 750,000 records in stock. You can shop online and the link is directly below this post.

Check out the wall of 45's! If it's not in stock here, most likely it doesn't exist.

Vinyl albums are packed in bins and there's piles of them below the bins.

And here's more of them packed around the vintage cash register.

There's boxes of three very different genres of music stacked in the front window.

And there's albums lining the corkboard wall. Let's take a look at some of them.

I love this Eldorados' cover. Album cover art is something I could look at forever, it's something you don't get when you download music.

Here's The Teenagers featuring little Frankie Lymon.

Jan and Dean meet Batman. I guess Robin liked the Beach Boys better.

Here's a great Yardbirds album, Over Under Sideways Down. One of these days I have to write about going to Memphis with The Yardbirds drummer, Jim McCarty.

Okay, enough of the wall, let's browse and flip through the bins for a real record store experience.

I think this is the only place where Nancy and Frank are sandwiched between U2 and The Clash. And speaking of Nancy...

I always have to check to see if they've got my favorite Nancy Sinatra album cover. I spent countless hours staring at this as a kid!

Here's a cool and diverse mix of musicians!

Beatle oddities, let's check this out.

George Martin's Off The Beatle Track, I forgot this album even existed!

This album cover is great, it looks like something out of Mad magazine!

The albums aren't cheap in here, most of them range between twenty to forty bucks and there's a good chunk priced higher than that, but they do have several rows of ten buck bargain bin albums.

I love this tune tote bag!

I decided to get this Ronnie Spector 45. Nice legs!

And here she is hanging around in my apartment. From One House of Oldies to another!

Further Reading: Mitch Broder’s Vintage New York, Hudson/Houston and NFT.

45 rpm keep on running to the end,
45 rpm keep on running to the end.

Surprise link, click on it...I dare you!