99 Records
99 MacDougal Street | Greenwich Village | built 1888
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The city photographed every building for its tax records around 1940 and again in the 1980s. NYC Municipal Archives.
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- 1963
A coffeehouse at 99 MacDougal Street becomes the Catacomb Chapel
A coffeehouse at 99 MacDougal Street became the Catacomb Chapel in 1963, and the New York Times covered it on December 15, 1963 under the headline 'Village' Rovers Beset a Chapel. The tenement's ground floor had already gone commercial in 1906, when show windows were added.
“In 1963 a coffeehouse at 99 MacDougal Street was converted into the “Catacomb Chapel.” ... first story was converted to commercial use in 1906…”
- 1980
Gina Franklyn and Ed Bahlman's shop at 99 MacDougal Street starts the label 99 Records
Gina Franklyn sold British fashions from a shop called 99 at 99 MacDougal Street, where her boyfriend Ed Bahlman also sold independent singles brought back from England. The composer Glenn Branca asked Bahlman about starting a label, and his Lesson No. 1 became the first release on 99 Records in 1980. The label went on to put out Bush Tetras, ESG and Liquid Liquid.
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- 1983
99 Records sues Sugar Hill over 'White Lines' and shuts down in the legal aftermath
In 1983 Grandmaster Melle Mel's 'White Lines' borrowed from the track 'Cavern' on Liquid Liquid's Optimo EP, and 99 Records sued Sugar Hill Records over the likeness. Sugar Hill was ordered to pay $660,000 but declared bankruptcy soon after. Bahlman shut the label down, partly because of the legal costs, and sold off its inventory in early 1986. A former employee and a Liquid Liquid member accused Sugar Hill of scaring the store's customers, which Franklyn called exaggerated.
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