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LPs, CDs Stop Spinning At Jazz Record Mart

(CBS) -- The Jazz Record Mart has sold its last LP.

Monday morning, the River North store sold the thousands of titles in its inventory and locked its doors. CBS 2's Vince Gerasole paid a last visit.

They came here for jazz, one of Chicago's last places to actually get personal with Billie or Sara or Louie – and a tactile experience.

"It's the old experience of thumbing through records and CD's -- something you can't have online," Jim Dowdle of Glenview said.

Owner Bob Koester stated peddling records in college, but, at 83, high rent had him selling the Jazz Record Mart's entire collection to an online dealer and closing up for good. It brought hundreds in for one last visit.

"I am rather amazed," he said of the turnout.

Talk about old school: Notecards, not computers, are how they tracked inventory at the shop.

Now, for Chicagoans, the vinyl and album art are fading away.

There's one record store left in downtown -- and now it's the only one," Koester said.

Music will remain in Koester's life. He still owns blues label Delmark Records on the North Side.

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