Out Of The Past Records

[Edie Antoinette]

4407 W. Madison Street
Chicago, Illinois
773-626-3878
Monday - Saturday 12n - 8pm CST

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[Edie Antoinette]

Did you see the pics I took when I was there?? I even got Marie!! I have to corral my urge to stay in there for like, a year. I would carve me out a lil hole in the back somewhere between the crates. I expressly named this site after that landmark/heavenly/treasurehouse of a place. Just thinking about them makes me get chillbumps!

You lived across the street...whoa x's infinity!!! I was looking for Elephant Walk for years--ever since I first heard in the gym of Jackson Park Day Camp which I attended in the early 60's. Every summer. I searched the internet and happened upon my beloved OOTP Records..they had it!!!! And the rest is history. Now they have 24/7 streaming radio---and I'm all over it like a cheap suit..Hmph! HA!!!!

Yes, it's a small world, indeed--and I'm eating up the stuff you add to it! Shoooot!!!! Chicago Rules!!!! RAAAAH!!! LOL!!!!! Why don't you all do a segment on them--they are a VALUABLE part of the African American Experience for shizzle!!!!!

[Edie Antoinette]

Me too!!! That would be right on time!!! I wanted to do a blog on the good old time neighborhood record shops--remember? Where we could get our 45's and spindles and stuff. Remember Metro Music on 103rd St? I bought alot of music from there in the late 70's. *sigh* I started on my hunt for info and couldn't find any of the old stores. Beverly Records is still around I know..but that's all I found.

The last time I was there I was on a hunt for Marvin Gaye's remix and I went to a couple of record stores on ..*thinkin* I think right off of 87th and Stony? and one on Cottage Grove...I can't remember..but they came close to what I remember in my mind for neighborhood record stores.

Keep us posted nonetheless. I can't wait!

[Edie Antoinette]

I have NEVER loved a record shop like I love OOTPR..never. And why did you tell me this!!!? I'm going to go and spend days...I will have grown a beard by the time I leave...whew!

I love them..and thanks for telling me this Sherry. It means alot to me ♥