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Rooky Ricardo's Records is a record store in the Lower Haight district of San Francisco, California, which features mainly soul music 45 rpm records. Dick Vivien, the sole proprietor and owner of Rooky Ricardo's, has been an inspiration to local musicians and disc jockeys in the San Francisco area for 25 years. [1]
The Lockheed SR-71 Blackbird holds the official Air Speed Record for a crewed airbreathing jet engine aircraft with a speed of 3,530 km/h (2,190 mph). The record was set on 28 July 1976 by Eldon W. Joersz and George T. Morgan Jr. near Beale Air Force Base, California, USA. It was able to take off and land unassisted on conventional runways. [47]
Aquarius Records was an independent record store in San Francisco, California, established in 1970. Aquarius was known for carrying an obscure selection of psychedelia, metal, and world music, and had an extensive mail order catalog. The store's selection was relatively small and was chosen and annotated by the staff of music aficionados.
Ubiquity Records was founded in 1990 by Michael and Jody McFadin out of the Groove Merchant record store on the Lower Haight of San Francisco, California. [2] Following the success of the Groove Merchant the Luv N' Haight record label (named after the Sly and The Family Stone song) was launched and in 1993 the company was incorporated as Ubiquity Recordings.
Rasputin Music is the largest independent chain of record stores in the San Francisco Bay Area, California. It was founded as "Rasputin Records" in 1971 in Berkeley, California by entrepreneur Ken Sarachan. It is named after an early 20th century Russian political/religious figure Grigori Rasputin.
On January 20, 2015, Streetlight Records announced it would be closing its location on 2350 Market Street in San Francisco after 35 years in business. [ 1 ] [ 2 ] On November 24, 2017, manager of the Santa Cruz location, Roger Weiss, cited the owner's wish to keep the record industry alive.
The record store, Frequency 8, located on Haight Street, was briefly changed to "Reverb Records" and was run by DJ Mystre (Eric Newman) before finally going out of business. In 2002, before the San Francisco Frequency 8 store shut down, they opened other locations in the Westwooddistrict of Los Angeles near UCLA, and on Broadway in Seattle's ...
Jay Robert Boberg (born in 1958) is an American music, entertainment and viticulture executive. He co-founded the independent record label I.R.S. Records in 1979, [1] and later served as the president of Universal/MCA Music Publishing and the president of MCA Records. [2]