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Article: Charity Music Mart has mammoth space problem
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- Chicago Sun-Times
- Article date:
- May 10, 1986
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Unless the Mammoth Music Mart finds lots of storage space soon,
the charitable fund-raiser may have to change its name to the Mouse
Music Mart.
The annual event sells thousands of records and other
music-related items to benefit the Les Turner ALS Foundation,
headquartered in Skokie. ALS - amyotrophic lateral sclerosis - is
better known as "Lou Gehrig's Disease."
The foundation stored the donated articles with a Skokie
manufacturer until last year, when the firm needed the space
returned. Then it used a vacant store at a shopping center, but
recently a paying tenant moved in.
Now the foundation is keeping 30,000 records and other items in
two 45-foot semitrailers. But by the time of ...