Take a very deep breath and try to remain calm, vinyl aficionados. It’s been four years since you’ve been inside PDQ Records off of Grant Road and Dodge Boulevard and it’s been nearly ten years since you’ve been in PDQ a la original owner Jack Grossi.
Well, PDQ is back under Grossi’s care and that means you have approximately one bazillion records to sift through this weekend. Seriously, I went in there and felt like Indiana Jones finding the Grail or the Arc or whatever else (not a crystal skull). No one’s seen these records for four years and they’ve been sitting there all sealed off in the closed down store just waiting to be bought.
That’s why manager Duane Miller is so excited to see PDQ, a store he worked at from 1994 until 2005 when it was sold to new owners, back in action.
“I really am just looking forward to getting this stuff back in circulation,” Miller says. “We’re here for the music enthusiast who wants vinyl.”
Although the shop has tapes and CDs, the vinyl selection really is staggering. Miller says it’s mostly full of great basics for any vinyl catalog with rock, soul, R&B, jazz, and country featured predominantly.
He says that in the future they may start buying newly released vinyl, but right now they’re focused on building up their rarities selection—the kind of stuff that makes real record store junkies go crazy.
PDQ Records is now open for all your buying and selling vinyl needs Wednesday through Sunday from 12 p.m. until 6 p.m. at 2432 N. Dodge Boulevard.
This article appears in Dec 11-17, 2014.
Good for them. Welcome back!
I’m going to have a wonderful Christmas! Great News! I could spend the entire there!
Well hot damn & praise that holy name…. The boys are back in town!
~ Catherine Griffin
PDQ Alumni 1996 -2005
Great news.
ahh..hell ya..some of the best albums in the country are in there,and i only have a 10 minute drive:).. yah/yah
I purchased a TON of records and cassettes from PDQ in the ’80s, not to mention some CDs in the ’90s. It’s good to know they’re back. I hope they do not suffer the same reopening fate that Toxic Ranch did.
Wait a second! Are you saying the store closed for 4 years with the inventory inside? How is that possible? No income and the owner is paying rent on a building for 4 YEARS?
Gandalf… it’s easily possible to let it sit when you ALREADY OWN the building… the land…. and all the contents inside! ;o)
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Wow, Ms Griffin, the property taxes in Tucson must be very low, my taxes in Oro Valley would not allow a 4 year vacancy! What. Ever. I plan to spend truck load of money on vinyl in 2015 and will haunt the PDQ!!
Went by today to see another store close by and ran into the owner. Told him how happy we were that he’s back in action. Can’t wait to get inside again and fell some good old vinyl in my hands again! Welcome back!
Is the reopened PDQ going to set-up a record stand at the Tanque Verde Swap Meet like they did at Grant & Tanque Verde?
Swap Meet at Grant and Tanque Verde? That takes me back….and the Pawnbroker to boot? Bob Meighan is that you?
Woot to the woot woot! Found some awesome stuff! I grew up around the corner and feel like I just found out my grandpa isn’t really dead after all!
Wow!!! This is truly good news! As a member of the Medical Advisory Committee of the Muscular Dystrophy Association, I traveled Tucson, every 6 months from 1991 through 2009. I would fly into Tucson airport, rent a car, then head straight to Grant and Dodge, on my way to the Westward Look which was where they housed us!!! Of course, I bought quite a few LPs, but my specialty was open reel 2 track (not the inferior quarter track) stereo tapes from the late 1950s/early 1960s. They had a large collection, and I could immediatey tell if a similar collector had recently passed through. I recall one time scoring over 40 2 track tapes!!! I even found a copy of “Bob and Ray Throw a Stereo Spectacular” for $3. The staff was wonderful, very knowledgeable and helpful (and I suspect quite underpaid). I recall a very heavy set guy who often sat at the tape counter. He was fun to talk with and I found out he had passed away. Another guy was very skinny, older and had invited me to is home to hear his Klipschorns. Great folks. Wish i could turn time back!! Does teach us that living in the moment is something that we must keep in mind!!! Of course chldren do this all of the time, but as adults we have remind oursleves about it.
Thanks, Phillip Chance, MD Seattle WA
I was looking at some of my cds and would see the PDQ sticker on the back and feel sad that PDQ had closed. I just find out today they have been open for 2 years!!!! I am going today-in four hours. I am so beyond excited. Best place ever. I have bought so many used cds in the past and NOT ONE OF THEM HAD ANY PROBLEMS.