In June 1976, with $700, Danny Beard and Harry DeMille opened Wax N Facts Records in Atlanta's Little Five Points area, an elderly blue-collar shopping district, long in decline. A natural foods co-op (Sevananda) and feminist bookstore (Charis) had already been heralds of change. In short order, Wax N Facts, became a storehouse of used records, offering the latest imported and domestic releases as a supplement. A typically eccentric ad for Wax N Facts appeared in a local alternative weekly in 1978, publicizing the store's "first ever special...to last a fortnight, wherein all Eagle Scouts will receive a ten percent discount from our two dollar prices."
Throughout the quasi-Bohemian trajectory of Little Five Points over the last quarter-century, the wooden storefront of Wax N Facts and the shop's used vinyl prices have changed very little. ----Jeff Calder
Voted Best RECORD store in Atlanta by Creative Loafing year after year. We carry loads of new and used records, CDs, and yes, even some cassettes...
