@dekay:
You’re speaking of Bleeker Bob’s shop on Melrose? Wow, I didn’t realize it was open for that long.
Here’s a funny story from his NYC shop (Bleeker Street is of course in Greenwich Village):
One Saturday in the Summer of 1983 the girlfriend and I rode the No.7 subway from Flushing (in the Queens borough, last stop on the 7 line) into Manhattan to go to Bobs. I was looking for a copy of a new various artists collection that had been evading me (pre-internet days of course). In the shop I asked Bob if he had a copy, and he said no, but suggested i ask Peter Holsapple if he had seen one.
Peter at that time was a member of The dB’s (and later the fantastic L.A. based Supergroup The Continenetal Drifters, whose other members included Susan Cowsill, Vicki Peterson of The Bangles, Mark Walton of The Dream Syndicate, and a fantastic studio drummer/singer named Carlo Nuccio. I saw them live in L.A. in the 90’s a buncha times), and just happened to be perusing the record bins in Bob’s that day.
Peter looked up, and I asked him if he knew where I could find Wild, Wild Young Women, the title of the album. Without missing a beat, he replied "Um, St. Marks Street." Those familiar with the Village are already laughing. 