Oh man! Reminds me of my days growing up in the 80's in Kolkata - Back then Free School Street was it! We were a bunch of fanatical music collectors and back then hardly anything ever released in India so getting a "imported" copy was the way to go and you had celebrity value if you had stuff on vinyl (everyone made copies on tape)...
There used to be a guy names Ishrat who had the largest collection...I think he left the biz back in the late 90's and opened a foreign exchange place diagonally across the street...Still remember buying my first sealed "Live Dead" by the Grateful Dead for 400 bucks (200 was the going price for a sealed single album) which was a fortune back in those days!
So are there any vinyl collectors and lovers in my hometown??? I would love to hook up with fellow music lovers when I visit home every year.
Rajiv
(In Dallas, Texas, USA)