https://www.jaxdailyrecord.com/article/jwb-buys-west-adams-street-buildings-downtown-for-bar-restaurant-space
Hopefully they fix that terrible facade!
Good ole Scotties; been there forever. Back when I was yuppying around in the late 70's early 80's, there was a record store next to Scotties I used to shop at all the time before technology took over when vinyl was King (or Queen take your preference!). Sounds good. Lot of denseness going on on the Northbank. Oh yeah. Yeah baby.
Pretty cool. I'd love to see the facades of both buildings restored. That block of Adams really needs a shot in the arm.
HU beat me to commenting on the record store that used to be there - Abe Livert? Used to buy concert tickets there in the days before Ticket Master.
Back in the day - late 1960s and early 1970s - all the JTA buses serving the southwest part of town stopped there: 3 Ortega, 4 Murray Hill, 5 McDuff-Cedar Hills, 22 Lake Shore, and 30 Park-Cedar Hills. I could catch the 5, 22, or 30 to get home. The 22 ran most frequently, but it stopped farthest away from my house.
Great to see more activation in that block. And I agree with Lake, and hope they can find the original facades under the 60s-era skins.
Quote from: Charles Hunter on June 03, 2022, 09:55:26 PM
HU beat me to commenting on the record store that used to be there - Abe Livert? Used to buy concert tickets there in the days before Ticket Master.
Back in the day - late 1960s and early 1970s - all the JTA buses serving the southwest part of town stopped there: 3 Ortega, 4 Murray Hill, 5 McDuff-Cedar Hills, 22 Lake Shore, and 30 Park-Cedar Hills. I could catch the 5, 22, or 30 to get home. The 22 ran most frequently, but it stopped farthest away from my house.
Great to see more activation in that block. And I agree with Lake, and hope they can find the original facades under the 60s-era skins.
Yep buddy; you are right on target. Abe Livert. I had forgot the name of it. I think he was Jewish if I am not wrong. The one thing I remember about that store is that when disco was dying, around 79 to 81, there were so many disco records in there on sale from $1.00 to about $3.00; they were trying to get rid of them I guess. But I purchased almost all of my Vinyl from that store. Wonder whatever happened to him.
Quote from: Charles Hunter on June 03, 2022, 09:55:26 PM
HU beat me to commenting on the record store that used to be there - Abe Livert? Used to buy concert tickets there in the days before Ticket Master.
Back in the day - late 1960s and early 1970s - all the JTA buses serving the southwest part of town stopped there: 3 Ortega, 4 Murray Hill, 5 McDuff-Cedar Hills, 22 Lake Shore, and 30 Park-Cedar Hills. I could catch the 5, 22, or 30 to get home. The 22 ran most frequently, but it stopped farthest away from my house.
Great to see more activation in that block. And I agree with Lake, and hope they can find the original facades under the 60s-era skins.
Abe Livert was located in the W A Knight building at 113 Adams St, in the space that is now The Volstead.
French Novelty moved from the Arcade Theater Building on Forsyth (the current Laura Trio vacant lot) to the 119 Adams St building in 1941, once Furchott opened their store at the corner of Adams/Hogan. The 119 Adams building was later occupied by the Vogue store (when the awful metal grating was installed over the facade and hid the 2nd floor windows), until the 1980's when it was split into its current two retail stall configuration to accommodate a fast food restaurant.
(https://www.frenchnovelty.com/mm5/graphics/French%20Novelty%20Shop%201940s.jpg)
(https://www.frenchnovelty.com/mm5/graphics/French%20Novelty%201952%20Grand%20Opening%20Ad%20Med.jpg)
I remember as a kid, in the 60's, downtown Jacksonville had numerous department stores with those type of windows with mannequins in them sporting the latest clothing fashion(s). You rarely see that anymore in urban cores or downtowns. When I joined the Navy in 1974, and they sent me to Jax for my first duty station, such stores were still in existence with those mannequins.
This is Adams in the early 1970's. You can see Abe Livert's Records, which was open in various storefronts throughout Jacksonville from 1934 to 1994.
Livert's store in the Gateway mall would attract performers like Gainesville's Bo Diddley to put on shows on a regular basis.
In 1984 Billboard Magazine called Abe Livert the 'Ponce De Leon of the retail record business'.
(https://photos.smugmug.com/Other/Historic-Downtown-Asheville/i-NhPbxSm/0/60628f20/X2/AdamsSt1971-X2.png)