Store Socks
Description: Paradise Records is a fictional record store located in the high-desert city of Bend, in Central Oregon, that is the primary location in the 2025 slacker film of the same name. The movie focuses on Cooper, a well-meaning record store owner who is trying to keep the doors of his beloved record store open. He’s facing foreclosure, the bank won’t give him a loan, someone keeps offering to buy the property — and then there's the robbery and hostage situation. All told, he’s really not having a great day. Thankfully, he’s got his employees and a lot of weed to help him work through things.
Description: Caldor, Inc. was a discount department store chain founded in 1951 by husband and wife Carl and Dorothy Bennett. Referred to by many as the Bloomingdale's of discounting, Caldor grew from a second story "Walk-Up-&-Save" operation in Port Chester, New York, into a regional retailing giant.
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Description: Turtle's Records and Tapes was a Southern United States retail chain, based in Atlanta, that specialized in selling cassettes, records, and concert tickets; in the latter years of the chain's existence, it also rented movies in VHS format. Turtle's was recognized for its trademark logo, an upright standing turtle with its neck twisted around in several coils as he attempts to look backward.
Description: Be the king of your own castle with the high fashion, 80's inspired Chess King shirt. Founded in 1968, Chess King was a clothing retailer whose concept was a teen shop with highly identifiable stores that had bold coloring and designs aimed at the 12-to-20 male market. In November 1995, the Chess King chain was closed.
Description: A long time establishment in NYC's Bushwick neighborhood, Northern Lights Records is as renowned for their extensive selection of used vinyl. Buying and selling records 7 days a week from their somewhat hard to find Lawton St. location, Northern Lights was a true 'it spot' for collectors of rare albums and deep cuts since the early '90s.
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Description: When I was in highschool in the mid-'80s and starting to delve into alternative culture, I kept hearing about this place called Cellophane Square in the University District. It was supposed to have punk and goth band t-shirts, records and tapes, all kinds of underground merchandise and was where you'd buy tickets to punk shows. Having grown up on the Eastside, hanging out at Bellevue Square as a kid, I pictured Cellophane Square as a punk rock mall. Imagine my surprise when I finally turned 16 and could drive to Seattle and found out Cellophane Square was a tiny, packed record store just off the Ave on 42nd (now the home of a Taco Del Mar).
Description: Paul Harris Stores, Inc. was incorporated on April 8, 1952. In 1954 the company's first store was established in a strip mall in Plainfield, Indiana. In the early 1960s, the company felt that the future of retailing would be in covered shopping centers (otherwise known as shopping malls). The first Paul Harris Store located in a mall was in Akron, Ohio. Paul Harris Stores went bankrupt in 2000.
Description: Record and Tape Traders was founded in 1977, initially operating out of a house in Towson, Maryland, the store sold new and used music, and as the name alludes to, bought, sold, and traded music as well. The store eventually outgrew their residential digs, moving into their Towson retail location, and further expanding over the years to have eight other locations, including Charles Village, Frederick, Bel Air, Catonsville, Westminster, and Rehoboth Beach, Delaware. Like all too many traditional record stores, internet sales and streaming services began taking their toll, and one by one the stores were closed or sold until one remained.
