{"id":6037,"date":"2018-04-25T15:40:18","date_gmt":"2018-04-25T19:40:18","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/carolinanewsandreporter.cic.sc.edu\/test\/?p=6037"},"modified":"2018-04-25T16:46:52","modified_gmt":"2018-04-25T20:46:52","slug":"papa-jazz-still-a-hit-since-the-80s","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/carolinanewsandreporter.cic.sc.edu\/test\/papa-jazz-still-a-hit-since-the-80s\/","title":{"rendered":"Papa Jazz still a hit since the ’80s"},"content":{"rendered":"

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Papa Jazz is a Five Points landmarks for several generations of USC students.<\/p>\n

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Papa Jazz has been around since the early 1980s.<\/p>\n

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Papa Jazz specializes in new and used vinyl records of all genres.<\/p>\n

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As time goes by, some companies either shut down or move to other locations for better business.<\/p>\n

Papa Jazz<\/a> is one of those stores that has been in Columbia’s Five Points since the 1980s and business continues to improve, owner Tim Smith said.<\/p>\n

What started out as a used record store selling vinyl records turned into something much bigger.<\/p>\n

When Papa Jazz first opened there were at least six other shops within a half-mile, and Smith said he had to figure out a way to stand out among the other shops that also sold the same records.<\/p>\n

\u201cIf you are going to do something like this you have do it differently than what other people are doing simply because you don\u2019t have a multimillion- dollar advertising campaign,” Smith said. So it became “sort of do the things other stores aren\u2019t willing to do or can\u2019t do; find out what you think you can do better and that\u2019s the key.\u201d<\/p>\n

Papa Jazz<\/a>\u00a0is now among the last record stores standing, although, at\u00a0first, Smith did not think the store would last once music technology started to advanced.<\/p>\n

\u201cThe first thing, when CDs hit I thought I would end up being an antique store,” he said. “I had 25,000 to 35,000 records, and you know nobody is going to want these records anymore.\u201d<\/p>\n

His mindset changed quickly once he saw that business sales said otherwise.<\/p>\n

\u201cMy business doubled within a year,” he said, because the demand for used CDS increased.<\/p>\n

“Also, people who needed some cash could come and get $4 a piece for them, which was a lot more than getting $1 or $2 a piece for that record, \u00a0so when that changed that actually helped my business.\u201d<\/p>\n

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