CHECKERED RECORDS SPINNING SINCE 1987
Checkered Records was founded in 1987 as a specialty vintage vinyl record store. The current owner Scott Fox, was one of the store’s first customers. Scott started collecting record albums in 1981 at age eleven. Cruising his “Leave It To Beaver” paper-route biycicle (cool … right?) he would scout out neighborhood garage sales looking for record albums to add to add to his collection. In 1987 Scott received his driver’s license and was freed from his biycicle. Serendipitously, this was the same year that Checkered Records opened its doors on Cleveland Avenue in Canton, Ohio. It was love at first visit. The store’s owner George B. was a walking encyclopedia of rock history and he quickly became one of Scott’s heroes. The store was always stocked with clean quality vintage record albums you couldnt find anywhere else. And the store always stood behind what it sold. In 2016 George passed away and the store was closed for a brief moment. When Scott heard about the store’s closing, he made up his mind to keep the beloved record store open (and the memory of George alive). Several months later, Checkered Records was reopened as an online record store. Scott vowed to keep the store honest to its roots; by offering only the highest quality vintage vinyl record albums with a complete customer satisfaction guarantee just like his hero George before him.
