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WAX TRAX! - 2449 Lincoln Ave. Landmark Status

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Jeffrey Chazen
4 years ago

Grew up with Wax trax

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Jamie Dihiansan
4 years ago

Many memories, thanks Wax Trax!

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Lou
4 years ago

I shopped at this store many times. It formed my musical taste that I now have.

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Seth Tisue
4 years ago

I lived in the Chicago area from 1975–2006 and visited Wax Trax many times in the late 1980s and early 1980s. For some of us, the store was a cultural epicenter.

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Will Haden
4 years ago

WAX TRAX was highly influential in my love for Industrial and Post Punk genres. I sill have MANY 12" records from that label and still listen to them today.

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Riley Minster
4 years ago

Yes please!

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Anonymous
4 years ago

Iconic place and spent my entire allowance there every month! Landmark Chicago institutions like Wax Trax before it’s all forgotten like so many places :) Like the 3 penny theater across the street!

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Marty
4 years ago

❤️

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Andrew Bagley
4 years ago

A land mark on world Musical Culture

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Mitch Hurst
4 years ago

I lived there in the '80s.

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Mary Jones
4 years ago

Significant part of the cultural history of our great city.

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Staci Amend
4 years ago

Still have my original vinyl from there!! Still Spinning

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Patrick Newman
4 years ago

I used to shop at Wax Trax on Friday afternoons after finishing my classes at DePaul. Good memories of some of my happier times in Chicago

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Deborah Frantisak
4 years ago

So glad I was old enough to have shopped there as a teen. Huge impact on my young life.

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Mike Danahey
4 years ago

This place is culturally significant for so many reasons. The story is that building could tell make it worth being preserved. And it serves as a reminder of a time when people actually had to go out and find the music, not sit in their residences letting algorithms make those choices for them.

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Brick Joshua
4 years ago

Love this idea!

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Mark Neace
4 years ago

I grew up buying my records from this shop. It was an event, something to look forward to. My collection still has the Wax Trax tiny white price sticker. As a young punk rocker this was the spot.

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Anonymous
4 years ago

Not on our watch Satan.

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Dave Wilbourn
4 years ago

A musical landmark for sure…. Proper to recognize it as such…..

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Jason Bukowski
4 years ago

So important to Chicago and music