Peaches Records And Tapes
- Lucian@going2paris.net
- May 10, 2022
- 2 min read
Lambsburg, Virginia
May 10, 2022
Amazing the company went bankrupt with the amount of money I spent at their store on Broad Street in Richmond. 🤪. Looks like I’ll be going to Tulsa and maybe NOLA (again).
Peaches Records and Tapes was a music and entertainment retailer in the United States. Peaches was known for its vast selection with many locations in buildings the size of a typical grocery store. Stores were also known for autograph signing events, huge reproductions of the album covers of the latest releases on the side of its buildings and for selling records from wooden crates with the chain's colorful fruit-crate style logo on the side. Stores reportedly stocked $500,000 worth of inventory.
Tom Heiman opened the first store on Hollywood Boulevard in Los Angeles in 1975 and soon opened another in Atlanta in 1975. The company's 39th store was opened in Chicago on December 3, 1980.
Emulating the tradition at Grauman's Chinese Theatre, some stores invited visiting artists to set their handprints in cement on the sidewalk outside. The prints, including The Allman Brothers, ZZ Top, Dolly Parton, The Beach Boys, Willie Nelson, The Kinks and others were destroyed in 1981 when that store closed following the company's bankruptcy.
Handprints by artists such as Pat Metheny, 38 Special, Hank Williams Jr. and Johnny Van Zant of Lynyrd Skynyrd remain outside the former location in Tulsa Oklahoma.
The company filed for bankruptcy in June of 1981 citing Citibank and six different record distribution companies as major creditors.
The lone remaining location is in New Orleans, one of eight before bankruptcy. That location moved to a former Woolworth stores and continues to maintain the lunch counter there.
The Crates!
The iconic Peaches logo was inspired by the California mountains and fruit groves, and was fused with a Georgia style peach crate to hold your personal vinyl collection. Today, Peaches Record Crates carries on the legacy of building these timeless crates for both old and new collectors alike. Our craftsmen quality crates are the perfect addition to your collection and are handmade in the USA.
I remember going to a couple album signings @ that Broad Street Peaches back in the late '70s, early '80s. Lived only 3 blocks from it for two years....