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May 28, 2011 - 5:30 AM
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Hurdy Gurdy
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I have lots of similar memories to many posters in this thread.
Trips to London, first through work in the early 80's - I'd try and snag every training course going - which was cool cos they'd pony up the expenses (train, hotel etc) which left me to use my wages to hoover up cool LP's (later to be CD's).
Then, when my mate moved down to live there with his girlfriend, more trips and breaks.
The thing I most vividly remember buying is the INCHON LP, for some strange reason.
I remember the most expensive item I bought was the HEIDI LP (John Williams - score/narration) which was about 20 quid (I was gonna add 'quite a lot in those days' and remembered it's nice to have it these days!!!).
I always regretted NOT buying the JEREMIAH JOHNSON LP that was up on the wall (I eventually picked it up mailorder further down the line).
The only thing I never experienced was the rude guy everyone's talkin about.
My only memory is the twins who worked there (who looked a bit like James Horner).
They were pleasant and friendly enough, I thought.
When the CD revolution took over, it was a pain going through those locked wall racks that you had to turn (they also had them in Steve's and Cheapo, Cheapo).
Plus, Tower in Picaddily was open then and they had some amazing deals going on, especially at midnight when you were drunk and went back to buy all those discs you'd left when sober 
Fun Times 
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May 28, 2011 - 1:30 PM
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vorlonb4
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I'd heard about 58 from other committee members and as I was down in London for some reason or another, i remember visiting it. The first impressions weren't good, 'why on earth are people suggesting this place to me' - i thought. Looks very tiny. However the treasure trove inside soon changed all that.
Rare release, after rare release had my fingers wobbling, i only had £30 with me back then and the Temple of Doom LP was the one that got chosen. Pleasant, if a little dry, staff served me and that was that. Out into the London rain, heavy as always, and out of Soho back for my train North.
Not the greatest story in the world, however if I'd had a £1000 i would have surely spent every last pound in there.....
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I remember finding the shop for the first time Then when I went in I would flick through all the racks and go "Oh Jeez!" at every third title, and stick it under my arm. When I had about 20 under each arm, one of the staff wandered over and told me to put them all back, because I'd never have enough money for it all! He was right. So I had to go back through them all and select the ten or so LPs that I really really "needed"
Just following on from Graham's memories, - I got caught out and muscled out of some choice LPs in my early teenage days of films fairs and shopping trips, just by being too polite and other collectors literally pushing me out of the way and grabbing a rarity - you learned it was a bit like first day in the sales in the comedy films!!
In the end, I learned to do the same thing as Graham - leaf through fast, grab what I saw that I wanted - just so no other collector could get it while I was making my mind up!!
I did the same though - compile the big batch, then weed out what I least wanted or weighed up what was affordable - let me see, for one Behold a Pale Horse I could have Stagecoach and Barabbas! etc etc.
The best bit for me was finally deciding on the selection, carrying two LP-shaped Dean Street bags home bursting at the seams and with the handles stretched - and then sod waiting till I got home - out came all the LPs on the tube ride home! - partly coz I couldnt remember what I'd decided on and wanted to have another look!!!!
But there was nothing worse - nothing - than having to stand there waiting while another collector leafed through the rack in front of you and when they came to a rarity that you would crawl over broken glass to get - you would hold your breath and pray they didn't want the same as you - and when the git pulled it out and took it before you got a chance, you wouldve have even contemplated offering him double (which I did on some occasions) or even mugging him around the corner!!! ha ha
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ever since this post started i have been trying to find the mag i wrote about further back, featuring derik and the shop,
i thought it was the film review from around 76 with the eastwood cover i was wrong that had the morricone piece by mike munn ,
going through old boxes of mixed mags in the loft i am still in the dark in more ways than one
punn intended,
any info on this would be great
thanks all
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Jun 4, 2011 - 5:44 AM
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Selwyn
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Anyone remember The Cinema Bookshop (just down the road from the British Museum), the owner there was always chomping on the most foul smelling cigar, the place really stank. I still have a few books I bought from there, & I'm sure I can still smell it if I give them a scratch & sniff. For a few years it was the only place I knew that sold Soundtrack magazine (but thinking about it, 58 Dean St. must have sold it as well).
Still, The Cinema Bookshop - who was the oldest running Cinema specialised store in the world, I think - was great, and Fred Zentner (the guy with the cigar) was a lovely fellow. He had to close down the same time the Masheters had, and for the same reason. All the second hand bookstores in Bloomsbury close to the British Museum but one are gone now. I'm afraid it's just a matter of time until there's really no need anymore for a collector to go to London.
Yes Thor,it continued to be run by the Masheter brothers Martin & Philip (2 of my best friends) until rising rent prices forced them to move the business up the road slightly to Bloomsbury. It continued there until once again,the high rent prices of Central London forced them to give up the business in the early 2000's. Their business is now Internet based but now only sells film poster,stills & memorabilia.
I'm glad they survived one way or the other (any Website/Email address?). The shop in Bloomsbury Street, of course, was a mix of two stores - Dean Street Records on the ground floor and the movie memorabilia store from that arcade in Chelsea in the cellar - and being a collector for both it was sort of heaven and one of the first haunts on any trip to London from Germany. I remember going there and searching for them, very puzzled, because I couldn't find them anymore (there was some cothing business in there)! And then walking up to Zentner's Cinema Bookshop in the same street and find it closed!
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May 13, 2013 - 9:05 AM
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roadwarrior
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1st post. Sorry to break the flow, must read through this when I have more time.{Thanks to poster of the Store photo. Can't even get a decent location view on google street view.And if anyone can post a pic of their plastic bags with the big 58 on it, that'd be appreciated.}
My memories are of the mid 80's about 11 years old, my Mother taking me in there to find Jerry Goldsmith's Rambo scores & Fiedel's Terminator LP versions.I also got Mad Max 2 LP {One with sky blue sky cover with Max & Dog,not the other version}
Anyways, by mid 90's I was buying CDs...and I remember getting the Rambo 2 CD... which had RAMBO in yellow text on the back.I took that part out & colored it RED as most promotional stuff had it red. A few years later,short of cash I asked if they'd {younger guy} would be interested in buying back some CDs. Like a HAWK...he spotted that the "red text" had been changed from yellow ! I couldn't believe it !!!! I was like,...wtf? How could he notice that !!! Its a score thats 11 years old at least ! Was a class job,I didn't use crayons! heheh. But he bought it back...at a reduced price.But I was happy anyway.
Then one day I went to pay a visit...usually went about once every 6 months,even with no money...Did the Vintage Magazine/brewer street/58 Dean Street Records tour...to find it was GONE !. Was totally gutted.
Then in 2002 {possibly early 2003} I by chance found the bloomsbury store....and recognized the two guys & asked, You guys used to run 58 Dean Street, right?".And it was them !!! That day I also found the CD of Lethal Weapon 2,...which I had not had in 9 years,and although priced at £13.50...I woulda given them £50 for it.{I wasn't online back then.Very hard to find!}
A year or so later, I passed again...and it was an Oxfam shop,then a book shop...and now even thats gone I think!
All the cool little stores have vanished now...carnaby street is about as sterile as you can get.Remember going there to get a leather biker jacket early 1990's and even then it had changed quite abit from what my Mother remembered.Now its all Nike & Starbucks !Even the Lonsdale boxing shop down the bottoms gone....think that was there since the 60's !
Well I ain't that old, but I feel it ! But glad to have known this shop...back when it was all "exciting" discoveries.
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I have seen both Martin & Phillip recently at a film fair and had pleasure in
presenting to them both 6x8 color photos of the old shop front.
They were very much genuiningly pleased to receive it.
'Happy memories!'
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