Record Shops

Record Shops Cylinder records were sold by mail order as early as the 1890s, but were also available in record company offices and phonograph parlors. Columbia records had a first location at 5th St. and Louisiana Ave. in Washington, D.C.—which may have been the original record outlet. Their later phonograph parlor was at 919 Pennsylvania Ave. Affiliates of the North American Phonograph Co., throughout the U.S., had offices from which cylinder records and phonograph products could be purchased…