I’ve spoken about Second Coming Records on Sullivan Street several times here, most notably and recently here, wherein I consolidated all the pics I’ve ever found of the place. Well, as it happens, this morning, someone surfaced this photograph, allegedly from 1989, by one Walter Leporati. At first glance, I was stopped dead in my tracks, as not only did it feature my beloved Second Coming, but I would have sworn on a stack of rare, imported vinyl that the figure in the foreground was my friend Steve H. (immortalized here), but he says he never owned sneakers like that. Ah well.
In any case, given some of the sleeves pictured in the window — South by Shona Laing, Tunnel of Love by Bruce Springsteen, Hot Animal Machine by Henry Rollins, Lovesexy by Prince — I’m more inclined to say this picture was taken in 1988, but y’know … whatever.
Incidentally, whenever I hear an invocation of Sullivan Street, my mind instantly starts playing “Movin’ Out (Anthony’s Song)” by Billy Joel. While I was never a fan, Joe’s stranglehold on the tri-state area’s rock radio since the `70s has ensured that his music has been nigh on inescapable. In the song in question, Joel invokes a restaurant called Mr. Cacciatore’s “down on Sullivan Street, across from the medical center.” For a start, there has never been a medical center of any discernible kind on Sullivan Street, although I cannot speak about a Mr. Cacciatore’s. But, y’know, Billy Joel is certainly no stranger — pardon the pun — to the concept of poetic license.
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