spindle spider dot comI built this for my friend Jen who was moving into a new home and is also a rabid collector like myself. Like the record bin I built for myself, it is constructed from scrap wood that would be normally thrown away, I pulled out many, many nails and screws to make it salvageable. I […]
I typically like to think of myself as someone that is pretty tolerant of cold weather, I deal with it on a regular basis and I think my threshold is higher than most. It’s been a really bad […]
Going to take the Milwaukee west Metra line to Western Ave, then walk to California/Lake and jump on the Green Line. Two stores in Oak Park and a third in Forest Park, at which point I can jump on the # Harlem bus, head back up to Grand and either hoof it back west home, […]
Kstarke has intrigued me for a while and I have no excuse for not having investigated sooner. It is about one mile maximum on both sides of a $1 train ride (incremental fare with my Metra monthly pass). However I always kind of worried/wondered that it seemed like everything I read emphasized their large inventory […]
I had planned to visit Laurie’s for a while but it’s central North side location make it difficult to find a good route via public transportation. On a ‘mild’ (32F) Saturday I decided I would take my bike on the Metra, and ride the ~12 mile round trip up and down Western via cycle. As […]
I smelled vinyl on the premises from across the street as I waited for Laurie’s to open. Quake wasn’t open yet either, but I peered inside and could see the record rack through the door. Didn’t buy anything but there was a bunch of nice stuff in here! The first five records I flipped through […]
Standard day for the majority of society as I know is as follows: go to work, punch out, go home, beat/yell at your wife, eat some kind of slop, fall asleep watching tv. No […]
No better way to spend a Saturday than the 6 hour round trip from River Grove down to Beverly Hills. I visited Beverly Records for the first time a couple months ago and I can honestly say that I did give them a fair shake the first time around – the place is a […]
While on my way down to Beverly Records, it dawned on me that there might be a thift store nearby. Considering my recent good luck in such establishments, I did a quick internet query for nearby locations and came up with this place at 93rd and Western. So I jumped off the Metra at 95th […]