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Dropping Like Flies

jrpa
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Re: Dropping Like Flies November 25, 2017 at 07:59 PM UTC #
Seth wrote:
Julian, wrote:
I’m just glad Bags didn’t live long enough to see this news. Would’ve broken her heart.
h

Bags?

What happened to her?
Why do you need to know what happened to Bags?
beetsnotbeats
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Re: Dropping Like Flies November 28, 2017 at 08:40 PM UTC #
The College Park RTX house.
hutch
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Re: Dropping Like Flies November 28, 2017 at 09:19 PM UTC #
What is that?
beetsnotbeats
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Re: Dropping Like Flies November 28, 2017 at 09:44 PM UTC #
Record and Tape Exchange. They opened in the mid 70s and had a few locations. The last one (under different ownership) is in Fairfax.
hutch
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Re: Dropping Like Flies November 28, 2017 at 09:49 PM UTC #
I did not know they had one in College Park..I know there is a CD depot there
beetsnotbeats
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Re: Dropping Like Flies November 28, 2017 at 10:07 PM UTC #
hutch wrote:
I did not know they had one in College Park..I know there is a CD depot there


I think it opened in 1977 in a small white house on RT 1, then moved to a nearby strip mall in the early 90s. I'm not sure when it closed but it's been at least 10 years. They also had locations in Annapolis and Bowie (where they sold "special import" LPs, aka bootlegs).
hutch
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Re: Dropping Like Flies November 28, 2017 at 10:17 PM UTC #
So you are not saying the RTX but the house..i getcha..you sure you are not getting it confused with cd game exchange?  They used to have one in college park too…on route 1
beetsnotbeats
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Re: Dropping Like Flies November 28, 2017 at 11:05 PM UTC #
hutch wrote:
So you are not saying the RTX but the house..i getcha..you sure you are not getting it confused with cd game exchange?  They used to have one in college park too…on route 1


Game Exchange moved out years ago. It was only in CP a few years, never attaining much status. OTOH, College Park RTX was at least semi-legendary. After they moved out, the house hosted a skateboard shop, then Atomic Music, and lastly a  cleaners and tux rental shop.
hutch
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Re: Dropping Like Flies November 28, 2017 at 11:50 PM UTC #
Cool..you sure know your College Park…are there any record stores left there other than CD Depot which I have given up on..it is just too much of a mess and there is way too much moldy and beat to hell vinyl there
beetsnotbeats
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Re: Dropping Like Flies November 29, 2017 at 12:20 AM UTC #
hutch wrote:
Cool..you sure know your College Park…are there any record stores left there other than CD Depot which I have given up on..it is just too much of a mess and there is way too much moldy and beat to hell vinyl there


The Depot is all that remains (not counting Best Buy), unless there's some secret store I don't know about. I miss RTX, and the UMD Record Co-op in the student union.

I've also stopped going to CDepot. The owner caught the vinyl bug several years ago, and the worst form of the disease that makes you think anything vinyl is gold. So much garbage. Unnavigable with all those damn boxes.
hutch
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Re: Dropping Like Flies November 29, 2017 at 12:51 PM UTC #
Pictures from malcolm's funeral made me sad…glad brian was there….phil too
beetsnotbeats
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Re: Dropping Like Flies November 30, 2017 at 06:00 PM UTC #
grateful
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Re: Dropping Like Flies November 30, 2017 at 06:09 PM UTC #
Justin wrote:



For a second i thought this was the groper thread. RIP Gomer.
Space Freely
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Re: Dropping Like Flies November 30, 2017 at 06:16 PM UTC #
excontradiction wrote:
Justin wrote:



For a second i thought this was the groper thread. RIP Gomer.


I never knew until just now that Jim Nabors was gay, like Walkie.
ggw
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Re: Dropping Like Flies December 01, 2017 at 09:45 PM UTC #
Vin Scully
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Re: Dropping Like Flies December 01, 2017 at 11:40 PM UTC #
Vincent
kosmo
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Re: Dropping Like Flies December 04, 2017 at 01:05 AM UTC #
seems silly to start a not dropping like flies just for this so

Pontiac Silverdome 1975 to the present (still standing,)
Space Freely
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Re: Dropping Like Flies December 04, 2017 at 02:48 AM UTC #
ggw wrote:
Vin Scully


Dont f with us dude. Vin Scully, Billy Graham, Norman Lear, and Betty White are going to live forever. Not necessarily in that order of preference.
jrpa
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Re: Dropping Like Flies December 04, 2017 at 01:27 PM UTC #
kosmo wrote:
Pontiac Silverdome 1975 to the present (still standing,)
More resilient than the Lions defense.
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