It’s come to my attention that one of my favorite vinyl spots from my young manhood is being threatened by yet another soul-crushing, small biz-bulldozing corporation known as Walgreens.
I’ve lived in NYC for the last 11 years but remember Everybody’s Records as one of the best indie record shops in all of Cincinnati. And I wish some of the shops in NYC were as good as Everybody’s! And it was owned, and I believe still is, by an old high school friend’s mom, Marilyn Kirby…who just so happens to be cool as fuck.
So even though we don’t have a TVD Cincinnati edition, it is all of our duties to look out for the great vinyl shops across the country. And shit, who the fuck needs another Walgreens?! And as this article states, there is already a Walgreens a tenth of a mile away from this location. And another article tells us there are “no less than 5 Walgreens within three miles.”
So fight the good fight for mom and pop record shops wherever you live and Cincinnatians, it’s time to hop to it now! Here’s your list of city council people to write to:
roxanne.qualls@cincinnati-oh.gov
cecil.thomas@cincinnati-oh.gov
laure.quinlivan@cincinnati-oh.gov
chris.seelbach@cincinnati-oh.gov
yvette.simpson@cincinnati-oh.gov
pg.sittenfeld@cincinnati-oh.gov
christopher.smitherman@cincinnati-oh.gov
charlie.winburn@cincinnati-oh.gov
wendell.young@cincinnati-oh.gov
charles.graves@cincinnati-oh.gov
And here’s “Save the Gaslight and Everybody’s Records” on Facebook to follow the haps and show support.
