One day in the 1980’s I was flipping through LP’s in Village Music (at that time a great record store in Mill Valley, just across the Bay from San Francisco. When it became a CD-only shop in the 90’s it turned into just another mediocre music retailer, eventually going out of business in 2007. Shoulda stuck to LPs!). At one point I looked down the aisle, and saw James Burton also flipping records. He noticed me noticing him, and flashed a nice big smile. I myself consider seeing James Burton more of an awesome making-day that seeing Robert Plant, but to each his own. 
Elvis Costello in the liner notes of his Kojak Variety album:
"Some of my best discoveries have been made in what may be the greatest record collector store in the world: Village Music in Mill Valley."
Did anyone else shop at Bleeker Bob’s in NYC? Bob was one orn'ry feller, weren’t he?! He opened a shop on Melrose Street in Los Angeles in the 1980’s, but I guess he was just too obnoxious for the town, the shop not surviving very long.
One day in the late-80’s my girlfriend and I went to Moby Disc Records on Ventura Boulevard in Sherman Oaks California (in the Valley on the West side of the Hollywood Hills) to look for records. I went straight for the racks, but the girlfriend came over and said "Look who’s behind the counter." It was Lucinda Williams, running the cash register. The girlfriend and I had been seeing Lucinda appear around L.A. for awhile, not knowing she was trying to get a record deal for her already-completed self-titled album that eventually was released by Rough Trade. I later bought that album at Moby Disc. 