Bye, Capitol Music
Susan Paynter wrote a lovely bye-for-now column today to Capitol Music, arguably Seattle’s finest sheet music and instrument store.
It seems Capitol Music is being kicked out of their space by developers who bought up the building. They’re hoping to reopen in Belltown, but it sounds like a long shot.
Paynter said that they were closing tomorrow. So I hurried over for a last few purchases, only to find a small handwritten sign on the locked door and a few sad-looking employees packing away everything in their store down to the hooks on the wall.
Sniff. Come back soon, Capitol Music. My piano playing might get even worse without you.
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I’m so tired of seeing this kind of crap.
thanks to the bush administration, a lovely occurance nationwide. wahooo for pushing out the little man to make room for the well dressed yuppie.
These types of stores, places, hang outs…are what makes seattle, SEATTLE …the city people hear about.
i hope they don’t one day successfully kill that.
Capitol Music sold crappy instruments. They did have a good sheet music selection, but so do numerous websites. The owners of the building have every right to capitalize on their property however they see fit. The fact of the matter is that Capitol Music was not profitable enough, nor was it a part of “seattle culture” enough to pay the rent.
I don’t see what the Bush administration has to do with any of this. New people with money moved in and wiped out businesses and buildings downtown under Clinton’s administration, too. And the other Bush’s. And Reagan’s. And Carter’s, though not so much.