This week for Georgetown Time Machine, I’m still deep into the pile of 1993 photos. This one is of 1254 Wisconsin. Nowadays it’s the Veronica Beard shop. But 30 years ago it was the Georgetown location of Kemp Mill Music.
Anyone who grew up in the 80s and 90s in the DC area probably has fond memories of buys records, tapes and cds from various Kemp Mill stores. As the Post wrote when the last store closed in 2017:
Instead of chasing a hipster trend, Kemp Mill, founded in the early 1970s, offered something else: community, particularly for the region’s R&B, gospel and go-go fans. A business that once had 275 employees and $30 million in annual sales, with outlets from Dupont Circle to Springfield Mall, also consigned records by local artists and hosted in-store performances.
I’m not sure when the Georgetown location closed. I’m fairly sure it was gone by the time I moved here in 2003. Anyone remember its departure?
The Georgetown Metropolitan 
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