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

[randy-byers.livejournal.com]

Was that store in Bellingham the first one, or did they start in Seattle? Now that you mention it, I vaguely remember a friend who grew up in Bellingham telling me they started there first.

[paulcarp.livejournal.com]

It took me awhile, but according to this 2002 P-I link, it started in the U-District in 1972.

[randy-byers.livejournal.com]

Wow, I had no idea it had been around that long! For some reason I thought it opened in the mid-'80s, but that must have just been when I discovered it.