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Old 08-15-2022, 03:30 PM
 
Location: Alexandria, VA
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Patchoulli?
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Old 08-15-2022, 03:53 PM
 
Location: A coal patch in Pennsyltucky
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It smelled bad in there. What was that smell? It wasn’t pot. All the hippie places in that era had that same smell.
Incense

It was common to burn incense in college dorms and apartments to try to cover up the smell of smoking weed.
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Old 08-15-2022, 04:24 PM
 
Location: Pennsylvania/Maine
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Jerry allowed a worker (no idea who) to smoke way in the back of the store behind he scenes. Of course the smoke would waft out into the sales area. Kinda stopped going those last few years before he retired. Record shops were abundant up to the late 1970s, early 1980s. I recall Dormont having three I believe. All little places.
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Old 08-15-2022, 07:11 PM
 
Location: Mid-Atlantic
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Find it all at the Underground Mall! They had some pretty funny radio commercials back in those days. I thought it was a 3 for 10 buck deal. I recall the sale started at midnight with a line waiting to get in.
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Old 08-15-2022, 07:53 PM
 
Location: Western PA
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btw- didnt the OP ask about 'oakland'? most of what that has been mentioned, save the graveyard...is squirrel hill...Im not convinced the two are interchangeable having lived there once upon a time....
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Old 08-15-2022, 09:09 PM
 
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btw- didnt the OP ask about 'oakland'?
yeah, you're right. we tend to talk a lot - see? we really are a big, loving family....

i really think it was Jerry's, and i believe it was 1 or 2 doors down from the current McDonalds on forbes. but then, im really going back to cutting from Schenley.....
i mean, when i had a free period and enjoyed the ambience of the pitt campus.
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Old 08-16-2022, 01:07 AM
 
Location: Sh-ittsburgh, PA & Lancaster County, PA
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The Free Peoples Store at 122 Meyran Ave? Early 70's record store.
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Old 08-16-2022, 06:01 AM
 
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The Free Peoples Store at 122 Meyran Ave? Early 70's record store.
interesting! "free people store"...i wonder what that was all about. i never heard of that one.
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Old 08-16-2022, 06:59 PM
 
Location: Sh-ittsburgh, PA & Lancaster County, PA
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interesting! "free people store"...i wonder what that was all about. i never heard of that one.

Only info that I could find remaining on the web is midway down on this page;


https://www.nowthenpgh.com/?p=849


and also a YouTube video;



https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Fd4eOfcgays
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Old 08-16-2022, 08:59 PM
 
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wow, thats going back to before we were born....it closed in '73???? that was even before the Bee Gees.

ah, i assumed it was down among the residences....i see it was between Forbes and Fifth. i wonder how that block looked back then.

i do remember forbes avenue as super dumpy. the whole pitt campus area is very nice for an urban campus, compared to its former self. maybe that is true for a lot of urban campus (hopkins, temple, etc....)
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