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Hedging their bets.
Posted: Mon May 01, 2023 4:27 am
by epigramophone
In the early days many gramophone dealers also sold bicycles. This dealer has gone one better with a motorcycle :
Re: Hedging their bets.
Posted: Mon May 01, 2023 9:27 pm
by Lucius1958
The bicycle & sporting goods business was pretty much seasonal; so dealers often added talking machines to tide them through the rest of the year.
- Bill
Re: Hedging their bets.
Posted: Tue May 09, 2023 3:01 pm
by alang
That kind of diversification is still going on today. I remember in Munich, Germany, a store had "Tabakwaren und Fahrraeder" (tobacco wares and bicycles), which I always thought was quite odd. Maybe to cater to those who want to be fit and to those who don't? In Flagstaff, AZ there was a store that sold guns and jewelry, most likely for husbands to bring something nice for the wife to apologize for buying yet another expensive rifle
Andreas
Re: Hedging their bets.
Posted: Tue May 09, 2023 3:56 pm
by Steve
alang wrote: Tue May 09, 2023 3:01 pm
That kind of diversification is still going on today. I remember in Munich, Germany, a store had "Tabakwaren und Fahrraeder" (tobacco wares and bicycles), which I always thought was quite odd. Maybe to cater to those who want to be fit and to those who don't? In Flagstaff, AZ there was a store that sold guns and jewelry, most likely for husbands to bring something nice for the wife to apologize for buying yet another expensive rifle
Andreas
Or maybe they're just catering for those with a fetish for jewel heists who like to re-enact famous crimes?
Re: Hedging their bets.
Posted: Wed May 10, 2023 3:58 am
by Marco Gilardetti
alang wrote: Tue May 09, 2023 3:01 pm
That kind of diversification is still going on today. I remember in Munich, Germany, a store had "Tabakwaren und Fahrraeder" (tobacco wares and bicycles), which I always thought was quite odd. Maybe to cater to those who want to be fit and to those who don't? In Flagstaff, AZ there was a store that sold guns and jewelry, most likely for husbands to bring something nice for the wife to apologize for buying yet another expensive rifle
Andreas
Funny! Also over here there's a shop that sells wood stoves and bicycles.
Re: Hedging their bets.
Posted: Wed May 10, 2023 5:01 am
by Inigo
in Madrid in the 1950s there was a store that used to sell window blinders, and also tiger-nut milk refreshment in the summer.
And on the line of strange stores.... there was a fruit store & vegetables grocery whose name was 'The Social Peace'...
Re: Hedging their bets.
Posted: Sun May 14, 2023 12:42 pm
by Lee
In the attached photo....is that a Columbia BC Graphophone in the middle on the counter and a BM to the right??
