Cellophane Square goes down

[randy_byers]

Local music store Cellophane Square is apparently going out of business. I remember when they started out (at least to the best of my knowledge) in the space that is now a Taco del Mar on NE 42nd St. I've bought a lot of used DVDs from them in the past couple of years. Feels like a real institution is gone.

Comments

[paulcarp.livejournal.com]

Cellophane Square was a large (and lengthy) part of my life. Not just the various Seattle stores, but the one in Bellingham, which was a dark closet with used 45's when I moved here, and eventually became a huge, well-lit store with new music, videos and DVDs. In 1985 or 1986, The Young Fresh Fellows came out with Topsy Turvy, which I got to buy at Cellophane from the band's leader, Scott McCaughey, who was also the store manager.

The one in Bellingham became something else awhile ago, and is now called "Everyday Music."

[eddvick.livejournal.com]

That's too bad. Can't say I bought very much there; I preferred Time Travelers, and these days I'm contributing to the downfall of the small retailer by buying used most of the time.

[holyoutlaw.livejournal.com]

I used to shop there a fair amount, back before Sonic Boom. So that was quite a while ago.

[kalimac.livejournal.com]

I'm sadly reminded of the period in the early 80s spent haunting the close-out sales of almost all the classical specialty shops, one of which was in downtown Seattle, on 5th as I recall. It was on watching the stock diminish over several visits there that I formed my prediction that, when there was only one classical LP left for sale in the world, it would be by Max Reger.

[wrdnrd]

This is just plain awful. I don't shop there a lot, but that's because i just don't buy music at 37 the way i did at 27. Still, i stopped in there every few weeks, and just last month i went in looking for 1 CD and came out with 3. How sad the landlord wasn't willing to work with them. There's really not anywhere left in the U-District to buy new CDs, which, yes, i occasionally actually want to do.

Sigh.