Original prices for LP albums

EJ Korvette's in Douglaston, New York (northeast Queens) was my source for LP's. I used to spend a lot of time there just browsing the collections, which sometimes seemed endless. For three to five bucks you could buy almost anything. I think the first album I ever bought was CSNY Deja Vu (I still have it) when I was a sophomore at Cardozo High School in Bayside, and I probably bought a hundred albums at Korvette's between late 1972 and 1975. Wow, the memories suddenly seem so vivid..... It was a great place to buy records.

EJ Korvettes, wow, that brings back memories! I was once told that the name stood for "Eleven Jewish Korean Veterans", any truth to that?

Nope. In fact it was founded and named prior to the Korean War.

http://www.snopes.com/business/names/ejkorvette.asp

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/E._J._Korvette

http://www.nytimes.com/2012/06/07/business/eugene-ferkauf-founder-of-e-j-korvette-chain-dies-at-91.html?_r=1

EJ Korvettes was founded by one man who died just this year. I can't remember his name but it wasn't Korvette as I recall.

Eugene Ferkauf, as indicated in the links above.

Regards,
-- Al

I'm from Rochester NY and we have what was back in the 70's through the nineties the largest record store in the world called The House of Guitars. An album back in 1985 which is when I graduated from high school was $7. When I say largest store I mean the most albums. You can look it up. People came from all over the world and the walls are signed by all the great rock bands of the era. Very high volume guitar sales at this store as well.

Rich,

A&S was another great store from those days. Please don't tell me that it wasn't Abraham & Strauss, because I do remember that one .... and I don't care if Wikipedia claims otherwise!

Marty

PS Modell's or Alexander's anyone?

Around 1969 to 1970 era Boston shopping for records at either the Children's Inn or Harvard Square COOP, prices were generally $3.99 for first pressing standard issue, single vinyl, no gatefold, such as Disraeli Gears, Are You Experienced, Led Zeppelin I. Gatefold issues or Beatles as I recall were $4.99. Double albums were usually $7.99, a huge amount of money for me as a school boy but I still have many of these and now they are worth at least as much because I took so good care of them, despite hundreds of plays with a "magnetic" cartridge.