JeffN
226 posts
Sep 04, 2009
11:40 AM
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Anyone remember the Blue Note? You could get old 45s there ... a great place!
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RIVERDALE RAT
136 posts
Sep 04, 2009
11:47 AM
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I remember it well it was on the old Dixie Highway across from Northridge High School..
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JeffN
227 posts
Sep 04, 2009
6:07 PM
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Is it still there, or is it long gone?
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dquartz
43 posts
Sep 04, 2009
6:59 PM
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i remember it also. it was a fairly small place, used to be in a remodeled house. it was there up until a few years ago i believe.
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samstone
29 posts
Sep 04, 2009
7:18 PM
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When I worked at Ontario Foods, a guy was giving me a ride home and stopped at the Blue Note. I told him I wasn't old enough to go in there. It was night time and it looked like a bar with the neon "Blue Note" sign.
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RIVERDALE RAT
154 posts
Sep 05, 2009
12:38 PM
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jeffN: I just took a spin up north Dixie courtesy of Mr. Google and I cant find any sign or remains of the Blue Note. they could have re-located but still not showing up on any search engine. dquartz came up empty handed as well. guess thats just one more piece of our history thats lost forever. county probably needed another vacant lot to add to their collection.
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RIVERDALE RAT
160 posts
Sep 05, 2009
3:42 PM
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Marck1957: Thanks. that place had a lot of good history.
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dquartz
78 posts
Sep 06, 2009
5:14 PM
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i can remember going there to buy a 45 of bobby vinton for this girl i was dating at the time. seemed like they had about anything that you were looking for.
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Steve K
92 posts
Sep 07, 2009
9:37 AM
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Only record store I was ever in that had a copy of Jimmy Dodd's "Lonely Guitar" album. He was the guy from the Mousketeers. Should have bought it, think it's work a couple hundred bucks now!
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driver62
231 posts
Sep 07, 2009
11:30 AM
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Speaking of record stores, does anyone remember the Drinking Gourd music store on North Dixie? It's on the west side a few blocks north of the Dixie drive-in. I don't know when it opened but it's been there as long as I remember and it's still open.
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corvettes6
44 posts
Sep 07, 2009
8:49 PM
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Who remembers Peaches at Northtown?
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Steve K
93 posts
Sep 08, 2009
10:58 AM
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The Drinking Gourd started out on Needmore, I think... next to a bar... then they moved to the current location, I don't remember them selling very many records... mostly guitars and sheet music.
Peaches was a great record store for the short time it was around... the employees went out on strike, so the owners just closed it. I remember Mike Losekamp from Green Lyte Sunday was working there about the time it closed.
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mem
9 posts
Oct 27, 2009
7:12 PM
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Golden operated the Blue Note for many years. She started a record club and after you bought ten of one type of record, your next one was free. My club number was #231. I got most of my 45's there through the 1950's except for the ones I received as prizes from WONE and WING radio.
Last Edited by on Dec 08, 2009 11:42 AM
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Northridge Kid
35 posts
Nov 06, 2009
6:40 PM
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Did you know that the house that became the Blue Note used to sit where the old Past Time Bowling Alley building is now. At the corner of North Dixie Dr. & Keenan Ave. I have a picture of it with a model t truck sitting in front of it from 1937.My dad told me about watching them move it.
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triumphman
2 posts
Nov 12, 2009
8:08 PM
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gee aint none of you very old Blue Note????Peaches???? how about Chris Harrises Record Rack in the Northtown Shopping center,Gershows Super market,Albers supermarket,or even A&P supermarket,Leibold hardware at Main and Ashwood,Victor drugs,Myers pharmacy,the Variety store,how about Owens supermarket?Upthegrove Texaco,Sarmers Sunoco,later Silcox Sunoco,"kids"!!!!!
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mem
18 posts
Nov 13, 2009
6:18 PM
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There was a record store across the street from Kiser High School. It was at the southwest corner of Troy Street and Leo Street. It replaced a comic and magazine store in the early 50's.
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carlatm75
24 posts
Dec 19, 2009
6:16 AM
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I loved going to the Blue Note in the early 70s. But later on the left side of the building housed JB's Hair Design. I used to go there and get my hair cut by Judy Barr who rented it from Goldie who owned the building. But that was in the 80s. The record store was long gone by then but I don't remember what Goldie did with the side that was Blue Note. The hair salon is long gone now.
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SeeDavid
321 posts
Dec 19, 2009
11:56 PM
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Sgot ! Hi ! We all used to get our records there or at Rettig's in Vandalia. That's all I have to say about that. ~C
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Sgot
14 posts
Dec 20, 2009
6:03 PM
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Thanks, Mem. Considering how that bible school is the only building standing in the general vicinity, I guess it's taken on another identity (for me). I'm curious as to your source for the address. Care to share it?
Hi Cindi!
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Bill68
55 posts
Dec 25, 2009
6:40 AM
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The Blue Note was owned by Goldie Quinn. I went to Northridge High School with her daughter, Colleen Quinn. Goldie had a son who walked up and down North Dixie rubbing a handkerchief between his hands for many years.
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Bill68
60 posts
Dec 25, 2009
10:57 AM
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I saw Colleen at Marion's last year at our 40th class reunion, but we didn't get a chance to talk about her family. When I walked into Marion's I saw some old people and thought "great, someone has invited some of our old teachers". Sadly, that wasn't the case. Hey, I wasn't going to really hurt him with that broomstick!
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Bill68
81 posts
Dec 27, 2009
5:06 PM
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Hunt69: Yes, I remember her. I didn't know her well at all, tho. She still around?
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mem
66 posts
Feb 15, 2010
1:22 PM
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hunt69 - Gary sams played in the band called "The Tracers". There is a picture of him on stage at: http://www.flickr.com/photos/nhsalumni/4276180269/in/set-72157600202597844/
Last Edited by on Mar 15, 2010 10:12 AM
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gplayer
2 posts
Feb 23, 2010
1:20 PM
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I knew Goldie and she was one of my aunts best friends,knew her son also that did indeed walk up and down N.Dixie always holding and twirling a hanky in hand or something and sometimes nothing ,but he was actually very smart. That was where i started buying records when Goldie actually started selling (for the day) rock 45's and some LP's. She was a nice lady,i do not know if she is still alive. But the Blue Note(though gone for many years now) has always made me remember where i started buying records. Probably a bunch of us did at the time.
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gplayer
3 posts
Feb 23, 2010
1:25 PM
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What about the old Bargain Barn for you Ridger's on the traffic circle when it was the Bargain Barn? And i looked at pic of the tracers and is Gary the one the far right playing the black guitar?
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roge
34 posts
Jun 29, 2010
1:42 PM
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Did a guy by the name of Lee Poeppelmier and his wife own or run the Blue note in the mid 70 s?
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mem
92 posts
Dec 12, 2010
11:52 AM
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Sgot - I got the address for the Blue Note from a few old Blue Note ads that I have.
roge - Goldie Quinn was the only owner of the Blue Note that I know.
A picture of Golden with customers in the Blue Note is at http://www.flickr.com/photos/nhsalumni/5562012280/in/set-72157622474366234
Last Edited by on Apr 25, 2011 5:42 PM
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mark miller
4 posts
May 19, 2011
1:21 PM
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i remember the 1st "45" record i ever owned was i wanna hold your hand.by the beatles my mom got it for me when i was 6 years old and got it at the blue note..and i remember peaches on north main as well back in approx 1977,78,79 we could any song on a 12 inch record i still have a huge collection
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kastner152
3 posts
Mar 28, 2012
12:08 PM
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oh yes, blue note used to sit next 2 pastime lanes & was moved down the street,i was in house just before they moved it, iwas friends w/owners of pastime lanes,bert danyi,great people !!!
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Northridge Kid
107 posts
Mar 30, 2012
5:38 PM
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kastner 152 I have a picture of that house with a model t truck sitting in front of it. When it was next to the pastime.
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kastner152
5 posts
Apr 10, 2012
11:14 AM
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wow ! like 2 c that pic , memories !
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