Name of antiques music box store in NYC that is now closed?
October 21, 2019 7:36 PM Subscribe
I'm going crazy trying to think of what the store was in Manhattan, New York City, that sold antique music boxes.
It was, perhaps in its second incarnation, on Broadway around 18th-20th street, around (or exactly) where Fishs Eddy is now (West side of Broadway). I am not thinking of the store The Last Woundup, which I think was always on the upper west side.
Did I hallucinate this store? I know you could take a broken music box there to be repaired, because I almost took my broken music box there to be repaired (but I never did because I couldn't lift my music box).
Any help appreciated!
It was, perhaps in its second incarnation, on Broadway around 18th-20th street, around (or exactly) where Fishs Eddy is now (West side of Broadway). I am not thinking of the store The Last Woundup, which I think was always on the upper west side.
Did I hallucinate this store? I know you could take a broken music box there to be repaired, because I almost took my broken music box there to be repaired (but I never did because I couldn't lift my music box).
Any help appreciated!
Response by poster: That isn't it, but thank you!
posted by DMelanogaster at 8:03 PM on October 21, 2019
posted by DMelanogaster at 8:03 PM on October 21, 2019
Was it something in the weird old Commodore Criterion building? At 25th between Broadway & 5th, near the north end of Madison Square Park, the one that (sadly) has gotten rid of its odd name and is now an upscale tile showroom?
In the 70s and 80s there were some very grownup toy shops in there--places to order collectibles, or get collectibles repaired. Lots of it was Christmas-related. (Like, if you had an old pewter Santa that was missing an arm, you'd go there and some donnish type with a pipe would peer at it, nod, go to some tiny unmarked drawer in the rack of tool cabinets behind him, and hand you the specific pewter arm you needed. That kind of grownup toy shop.) I don't specifically remember a music box section but that's where I would have gone first with any music box repair needs.
(Fishs Eddy has been in that spot on 19th since at least the early 90s. Website says the store opened in 1986 but I'm not sure it was originally on that corner. Might have been.)
posted by miles per flower at 9:54 AM on October 22, 2019
In the 70s and 80s there were some very grownup toy shops in there--places to order collectibles, or get collectibles repaired. Lots of it was Christmas-related. (Like, if you had an old pewter Santa that was missing an arm, you'd go there and some donnish type with a pipe would peer at it, nod, go to some tiny unmarked drawer in the rack of tool cabinets behind him, and hand you the specific pewter arm you needed. That kind of grownup toy shop.) I don't specifically remember a music box section but that's where I would have gone first with any music box repair needs.
(Fishs Eddy has been in that spot on 19th since at least the early 90s. Website says the store opened in 1986 but I'm not sure it was originally on that corner. Might have been.)
posted by miles per flower at 9:54 AM on October 22, 2019
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