A shop for the Columbia Graphophone Company designed by Starrett & Van Vleck c. 1916 in New York City. Click HERE for more on the Columbia Graphophone Company. I do not know the precise location of the shop.
Photos from The American Architect, 1917.A shop for the Columbia Graphophone Company designed by Starrett & Van Vleck c. 1916 in New York City. Click HERE for more on the Columbia Graphophone Company. I do not know the precise location of the shop.Photos from The American Architect, 1917.
One could move right in..
ReplyDeleteAfter googling myself silly, I find one mention of a Columbia Gramophone Shop on Fifth Avenue in 1918. This shop would certainly make sense as a mid-town store when the neighborhood was as fashionable a shopping district as there was.
ReplyDeleteThere is also mention through the thirties of a Gramophone Shop (no Columbia) through the 1930's at 18 E. 48th St.
Also worth mentioning is that of course, music stores used to occupy their own mini-districts, with Steinway, Columbia, etc. all grouped together. I don't know where this was in NY (although the one in Boston survived until fairly recently).
And of course, if one were to get one's hands on a 1918 city directory, all would be revealed :-)