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David Alexander Garden
07 Sep 2023 at 03:26
Golumb's was on the Saltmarket around number 20, the shop is still there but empty and locked up. Painted black on the outside. I bought a Burns Marvin neck there in 1966 for £10. Sold it in the 1990s for £150. 👍
John Hamilton
21 Apr 2024 at 02:08
Simon Golumb owned two shops: one on Saltmarket, a music instrument shop; and one on the Gallowgate, a record shop. The record shop moved to Parnie Street in 1976/77 when the Gallowgate was knocked down. Eric Golumb was the son's owner and manged them after his dad had gone. The music shop owner was Owen and the record shop manager was Robert Gibson (now owner of the Waterloo Bar). I worked in the record shop part-time weekends whilst at school.
Malcolm Eakin
17 Apr 2025 at 11:00
I often think of the shop in Salmarket which I visited many times in my early teens. They had a Gibson EDS-1275 Doubleneck in Cherry Red on display in the window that I'll never forget. It was the go to place at the time for guitars and accessories. Fond memories of my youth.
John McPhee
20 Apr 2025 at 02:40
I remember their shop in Gallowgate back in the mid/late 60s. They turned the basement area into a shop selling deleted 45s for about 2/-. I guess they bought their stocks from the distributors. It was a goldmine of now very collectible items. Goodness knows how many obscure Joe Meek productions were in their browsers. I remember they printed a partial stock list. Later on they sold "lucky bags" of 45s for not a lot of money. Happy days
Frank Kerr
30 Jun 2025 at 07:41
Like David Alexander Garden's comment above, I bought a Burns bass neck to use on a stainless steel body I made at work. I still have it, and it's doing well, even though it's 55 years old.
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Comment: The musical instrument shop was in Stockwell Street I think, the record shop in the Gallowgate was a great Saturdays meeting place in the 1950s and 1960s. Survived into the eighties according to some of the guitar forums I found. If I remember correctly Golumb's had above its door a leaded fanlight which read "Golumbs (sic) The house that value built". I got an acoustic guitar there for my birthday when I was about 13. I think it set my mum and dad back the princely sum of £14.
Name: Stewart Duthie
Comment: I remember the store being on a corner, very close to the City of Glasgow Union elevated railway tracks. It stocked a vast array of parts, I believe... an Aladdin's Cave.
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