The Emporium, Bridgeport Record Shop to close its doors

A bridge port business and Ephemera specializing in viny run drawings and ancient books will be closed, according to its owner Mike Roer at the end of this month.

The last day of the Emporium is March 31, Roer confirmed to Connecticut Insider.

“The traffic really never recovered according to Covid,” said Roer, adding that he noticed that the car and the walk near the post-pandemy shop shop would disappear.

The Fairfield Avenue shop has thousands of vinyl plates that range from house music to classic rock. The business shelves also have antiquarian books and other historical articles for sale. Roer said that some of the books and “historical objects and historical Ephemera” will be donated to Bridgeport's library. Records from the shop can be purchased on the Discogs page of the Emporium, a platform used to sell vinyl.

Roer is a local author who published the books “Orator O'Rourke: The Life of a Baseball Radical” and “Baseball in Bridgeport: from Barnum zum Bluefish”. Roer also heads the Entrepreneurship Foundation, an organization that, according to his website, provides resources for educators and entrepreneurs.

In the spirit of the entrepreneurship, according to its Facebook page, the shop also sells articles from “Local entrepreneurs and Students with Start -up companies”.

“I like the idea of ​​such a place with culture, books and records and music and so on,” said Roer. “People seemed to have enjoyed it.”

While he wrote back from business, Roer said that he was still talks in the city about Columbia Records and other historical topics and training courses on entrepreneurship.