New exterior and main entrance 3-2008 
New interior 3-2008
| Location |
33-1/3 Rockwood St, Rochester NY, 14610 ![[Directions]](/wiki/dd_start.png "Click for driving, walking, or bus directions from Google"){kind=small} |
| Hours (as of August 2009) |
| Monday - Saturday: 10:00AM to 9:00PM |
| Sunday: Noon to 5:00PM |
| Phone |
| 585 244 1210 |
| Website |
![[WWW]](http://rocwiki.org/wiki/eggheadbeta/img/sycamore-www.png){kind=small} http://www.recordarchive.com/ |
"Get cash for used CD's at Record Archive!!!"
Record Archive should be familiar to anyone in the Rochester area with access to a television has seen their whacky commercials. All used CD's are only $5 apiece and man do they have a lot of them! The staff is friendly and usually pretty knowledgeable about most music. The store also sells a lot of various other items including used DVD's, used clothing, hipster collectible kinck-knacks, etc. They often run contests for free promotional items and they don't hesitate to throw free, small promotional stuff in your bag when you check out.
The Mount Hope location is soon to move from the Not Yet Abandoned to Abandoned category. The City paper reports:
After 28 years as a Rochester institution, The Record Archive is closing its Mt.Hope location. For years, the big yellow house was the place to get any type of music, with a staff that knew and loved what they were doing. And the place served as a genuine record archive, with thousands and thousands of records in its back room.
The slide began with the closing of Mt. Hope Wegman's, says Archive president Dick Storms. "The lights went out across the street, and that area of Mt.Hope ceased to be a shopping destination," says Storms. "There's still fast food, but that's about it."
"We're going to combine everything into the East Avenue location," says Storms, "including about 200,000 records." And the Mt.Hope crew will go to East Avenue, too.
On 3/4/08 moved to new location a few blocks away. The Boxman, a shipping and packing store next door at the old location on East Avenue has also moved (same date) to another building near this new location.
Awards
Record Archive was voted "Best Record Store" in City Newspaper's 'Best Of' awards in 20021, 20062 and 2007.3
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2008-03-24 21:42:42 I like the new location perhaps the best. The old Mt. Hope house was charming, East Ave. became way too crowded after the move, and it's finally a breeze to browse (especially the vinyl). They're still (expectedly) unpacking, but between here and Bop Shop we're very lucky, indeed. —RochesterGuy
2008-04-16 14:41:39 If someone could write up how to get to the new location, that would be great. I spent 20 minutes last weekend driving around trying to get there. I see it from the interstate, I thought I turned in the right place, but ended up behind the building [but not close enough to walk] and couldn't figure out how to get to the road that goes in front of the bldg.
It's not intuitive. [Yes, I looked on Google maps.] —MarcVera
2008-04-16 16:45:38 You need to enter from East ave (Route 96). If you are on East Ave at Wegman's, head East, cross Winton Road, and pass the old location next to DiBella's subs. After that the road dips down and goes under the highway. Just beyond that it rises again and there is a left turn that'll take you into the industrial area where the new Record Archive Bldg is. —DottieHoffmann
