'A Strange Feeling': Owner Of Seattle's Bop Street Records Reflects On Closing Shop After 30...

Visiting a good record store is a one-of-a-kind experience: the exploration and discovery, the smell of thousands of records, the feeling of touching a vinyl record.

For over 30 years, music lovers flocked to Seattle's Bop Street Records — but now the home of 500,000 records will close its doors at the end of June. Driven to an early retirement by the COVID-19 outbreak, owner and record collector Dave Voorhees says moving on from his routine of putting up the open sign and turning on the music feels “surreal.”