Hymie’s is MOVING!

WHEN? We will be open at our current location through April 17^th, RECORD STORE DAY, which will be our last big sale day in the old store.  We will close for 2 weeks, and reopen at our new location May 1^st, 2010.

WHERE? The new store will be located at 3820 East Lake Street, just 5 blocks east of our current location.  The space is presently occupied by Mill City Music, a local music distributor.  Mill City will be relocating to the second floor, and freeing up the retail space for Hymie’s.

WHY? As our regular customers know, we bought the store with the intent of securing for it a permanent home.  We had hoped that home would be at 3318 E Lake, the current location, but a number of factors have made that impossible – many of you may recall we were without heat in the building for weeks this winter, and water flooding the basement and leaking through the roof has destroyed crate after crate of records while the landlord does little to address these problems.  The landlord’s ongoing negligence and his unwillingness to offer the business a legitimate commercial lease has driven us to seek out a new location.

Moving will offer us room for expansion and put us next door to several established East Lake businesses, including the Blue Moon Coffee Shop, Frattalone’s Ace Hardware, and East Lake Liquor – A lot better than our current location in between two empty buildings!

Some may declare it the end of an era and we won’t begrudge them.  Others may not forgive us for the change, but when we weighed the options it was either close the doors altogether or try to carry on the tradition.  It’s not about the building anyway, its about the sweet, sweet vinyl!