spindle spider dot comA year ago, I conquered a trio of O-Town record stores all within a triangle near the Lynx Central Station. Frustrated with the lack of thrift stores, I searched Google again, much as someone looks into their empty fridge, hoping some scrap of food might miraculously appear. Well one did for me, but it was […]
I found just a quick break in my rushed day in Tampa to speed over on the #1 bus down Florida Ave. to Microgroove. I was not disappointed. I think this is the reasonable dream of every record collector, to own a store like this. It wasn’t filled with hundreds of expensive records but also […]
Continuing back to my point of origination on my record store bike tour of NE Orlando, I finished things off at Rock N’ Heaven. The outside decor was eyecatching to say the least but offered no glipse of what was inside. When I entered I found a large store with many racks of vinyl. A […]
Far from a knock on Park Ave CDs, but I was ready for a record store like this after that experience. A simple room with no partitions, worn and well used. I must presume the two clerks I encountered were owners. I had a brief (2-3 miles) bike ride but in the heat I was […]
So I began what became a 7.5 mile bike ride at Park Ave. CDs. While Rock N’ Roll Heaven (detailed in a separate post) was just feet away from my jumping off point at Retro Cycles I decided to hit that last. Park Ave. was just a few miles away. I would pedigree this as […]
This is going to be a hell of a day via public transportation. My current plan is to take link 111 to the new SunRail southern most stop (Sand Lake Road), and take that north to the Lynx Central station. After that, it will be a walk to the first of the 3 stores and […]