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Cutler’s Closing Doors

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One last blow-out of sound is beginning on Broadway, as the famed Cutler’s Record Shop prepares to close its doors.

Phil Cutler, the third-generation family member who runs the record and CD emporium, announced Wednesday that the store is going into retirement” — and celebrating that fact with a final sale.

Cutler’s grandparents Nat and Lee opened Cutler’s in 1948 at 41 Broadway. It moved a few doors down to 33 Broadway in 1953, stayed there until 1999, then moved over to 27 Broadway as part of Yale’s upgrading of the commercial district.

Cutler’s’ rise mirrored the rise of rock and roll and modern jazz and the golden age of 45 and 33 rpm records. Like Pepe’s and Sally’s, Louis Lunch, East and West Rocks, and that Ivy League school with the Gothic castles, the store has been a defining local landmark and institution ever since.

Phil Cutler said this in a press release issued late Wednesday: ““Although this could be viewed as a sad day, the Cutler’s family is looking at it as a celebration of 64 years of fulfilling the music needs of the Yale community and Connecticut. I would like to think Cutler’s was as valuable to New Haven, as New Haven was to Cutler’s.” (Click here to read the release.)

The plan is to keep the store open until the end of June with an everything must go” sale. Everything from headphones to compact discs will go for 25 percent off. Advice from Chicago voting precincts may be in order: Show up early and often.

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