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Oldies Museum

Name: Gerry Vinyl.
Comment: A bit different to your average record shop. Instead of flicking through records you looked at printed lists of what they had, made your selection, and they would produce it from a storeroom at the back. There were loads of long-deleted 7" singles there with some real gems to be had if you had the patience to pore through their endless lists.
(8 August 2015)

Comments

Dave Harwood
14 Nov 2023 at 11:28
I found this advert in the 'Edinburgh Evening News' dated 9th July 1982: “THE OLDIES MUSEUM: Top 100 LPs £3.99 (excluding TV and double-albums), Top 10 singles 99p. 3a West Maitland Street: 228 35240.”
… and this comment in 'The Scotsman' dated 1st June 1996: “Grant McKeeman, of The Oldies Museum record store, said: “A ban would destroy our business completely. People drive from all over Scotland to this shop.”
Chris Spence
23 Nov 2025 at 01:43
Well my experience of this wonderful shop was as follows 😁.
I used to watch the American tv comedy “Taxi”. It was a great comedy but the theme tune was amazing. From the credits I got some info, the theme was called “Angela” by Bob James. So where can I get it?, I go through the yellow pages and see this place!, I phone up and enquire, they have a copy! . I get a bus to the west end of Edinburgh and collect my copy of it. I go home and play it again and again.
Kids of today will never know that feeling!

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3a West Maitland Street EH12 5DS Edinburgh / Scotland
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