John Erling’s Fifth Avenue Record Shop was Seattle’s most comprehensive music store from the 1940s through 1981 and was one of the first places in town where a diverse patron base flourished, intermingled, and exchanged artistic ideas. Its last owner, Jack Graves, moved it to Fourth Avenue inside Rainier Square.

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As featured in Images of America - Vanishing Seattle.

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