The man who claimed he built the world's biggest record collection
January 6, 2021 This is the story of a man and his records……..Record-Rama was founded by Paul C. Mawhinney, a collector of vinyl records. According to the store’s website, Mawhinney was a significant help in restarting David Bowie’s career by getting fellow Pittsburgher and RCA boss Tom Cossie to re-release the album Space Oddity in 1972 after its initial release in 1969 failed to hit. Mawhinney started the shop after his personal collection reached many thousands. It was his wife who told him to get rid of the records or start a business around them. By the mid-1990s, Record-Rama was...
Source: decodedmagazine.com