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This photograph captures a record shop window display in early twentieth-century America. For ordinary families, the phonograph and recorded music were brand-new luxuries, and record stores became gathering places where people discovered what music they could afford to bring home.
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You pause on the sidewalk, drawn by the gleaming phonographs and stacked records arranged in the window. A handwritten price card catches your eye—these machines cost more than a week's wages. But inside, the owner might play you a sample, and for a few dollars, you could own a piece of that sound forever.
Reflect
What role does the physical act of shopping—seeing, touching, hearing—play in how you choose the entertainment or music you bring into your home today?