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Charlie Grappone

"Fuhggedaboudit." Charlie Grappone's Vinyl Mania was just another downtown record shop until the Paradise Garage opened a couple of blocks away. Then, with the weeekend a constant crush of customers asking for "that record Larry played", the Carmine Street store became the club's unofficial wax works. Open from 1978 until its sad closure in 2007, Vinyl Mania was where two generations of New York DJs honed their knowledge and built their collections.

 

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