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[[Image:HamRecExch1982.jpg|right|thumb|200px|Advert for the ''Hamilton Record Exchange'', 1982]]
 
[[Image:HamRecExch1982.jpg|right|thumb|200px|Advert for the ''Hamilton Record Exchange'', 1982]]
 
[[image:DSCF2939.JPG ‎|left|thumb|300px|Window from Kings Buildings, 2015]]
 
[[image:DSCF2939.JPG ‎|left|thumb|300px|Window from Kings Buildings, 2015]]
The Hamilton Record Exchange (previously [[Paradise Records]]) was located at 11 King's Arcade, inside King's Buildings, which was a terminally empty shopping arcade linking Victoria Street with the former-McDonalds carpark off Alma Street (the McDonalds is now the site of TSB, while the arcade is now taken up mostly by Timezone). Open since at least the early 1980s, the Hamilton Record Exchange closed in the late 1990s.
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The Hamilton Record Exchange (previously [[Paradise Records]]) was located at 11 King's Arcade, inside King's Buildings, which was a terminally empty shopping arcade linking Victoria Street with the former-McDonalds carpark off Alma Street (the McDonalds is now the site of TSB, while the arcade is now taken up mostly by Timezone). Open since at least the early 1980s, the Hamilton Record Exchange was run by Mike McCarthy, and closed in the late 1990s.
  
 
The Hamilton Record Exchange sold mainly vinyl and tapes, though there were small stocks of CDs in the later years.
 
The Hamilton Record Exchange sold mainly vinyl and tapes, though there were small stocks of CDs in the later years.
 
[[category:Music Stores]]
 
[[category:Music Stores]]

Revision as of 10:22, 17 May 2018

Advert for the Hamilton Record Exchange, 1982
Window from Kings Buildings, 2015

The Hamilton Record Exchange (previously Paradise Records) was located at 11 King's Arcade, inside King's Buildings, which was a terminally empty shopping arcade linking Victoria Street with the former-McDonalds carpark off Alma Street (the McDonalds is now the site of TSB, while the arcade is now taken up mostly by Timezone). Open since at least the early 1980s, the Hamilton Record Exchange was run by Mike McCarthy, and closed in the late 1990s.

The Hamilton Record Exchange sold mainly vinyl and tapes, though there were small stocks of CDs in the later years.