Lakeview. Where Chicago house was sold, by the DJs who made it.
- Shop
- Gramaphone Records
- Address
- 2843 North Clark Street
- Town
- Chicago, United States
- Established
- 1969
- Formats
- Vinyl, 7"
- Crates
- House, Techno, Disco, Electronic, Hip-hop, Soul
- In the shop
- Buys collections, Listening booth
- Opening hours
- Th-Su 12:00-18:00
Gramaphone opened on North Clark Street in 1969 selling folk, jazz and blues, on a stretch then known as record store alley. In the early eighties, with house music taking hold of the city, the manager Andy Moy started keeping house 12-inches behind the counter for customers to ask about, and the shop turned into the first in Chicago built around vinyl for DJs. Derrick Carter, DJ Heather, Colette, Mark Farina and DJ Sneak all worked behind that counter through the golden run from the late eighties into the mid-nineties. It has been in a bigger room since 2005, under Michael Serafini, and touring DJs still make the trip