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14th Street
locale gives
shoppers new
alternatives
By Liza Holtmeier
Staff writer
A punk mall.
It may sound like a paradox, but that’s how
some have described the new buildmg that hous
es the Ozone, Zero Street, The Location and
Caulfield Records.
With its vintage clothes, independent music
and flavored coffees, the triple-whammy bazaar
brings several of Lincoln’s counterculture offer
ings under the same roof.
“All we need are toys and corn dogs, and
we'd be Gateway Mall,” said Clay Lewis,
employee of The Location.
Not that the owners are striving toward
mass-consumption success. All the shops are
intentionally anti-establishment in both style
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of the store after years of being operated out of
owner Bemie McGinn’s home.
Rounding out the store is the n&vest addition ’
to Lincoln's burgeoning altema-shop scene: The
-Location, an herb and coffee shop that peddles
' beverages while shoppers peruse merchandise.
Located at 120 N. 14th St. between A Novel
Idea and Eyes of the World, the new'space repre
sents a new partnership among young Lincoln
entrepreneurs, incorporating Ryan Bird (owner
of The Location), Carrie and Jim Stevens (own
ers of the Ozone) and Kevin Chasek (owner of
Zero Street).
Zero Street and the Ozone formerly occu
pied opposite sides of the abandoned State
Theater on O St. between 14th and Centennial
Mall Streets. But it wasn’t long before the
stores’ owners decided their spaces were too
small.
So they decided they could afford to
increase the size of their stores if they combined
their resources.
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KEVIN CHASEK (front) and Ryan Bird share a new building at 120 N. 14th St. Chasek owns and operates the music section in the basement of the
store while Bird owns the coffee shop and herbal products bar. Chasek said he designed his basement music store, which carries new and used
compact discs, tapes and vinyl records, to resemble the Antiquarium in Omaha’s Old Market.
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Caulfield Records finds
new home at Zero Street
By Jim Zavodny
Staff writer
When Bernie McGinn founded Caulfield
Records in 1988 as a senior in high school, he
intended the label to be a means to release
albums created by his band.
“(Caulfield) was definitely started just to
put out Sideshow records because no one else
was interested in doing it. We would send out
demo tapes, and all of the responses would.be,
‘Your band is cool and everything, but we real
ly only put out records by our friends,’”
McGinn said.
Instead of giving up hope for releasing
Sideshow’s material, McGinn took to the
offensive and created one of Nebraska’s most
respected and successful labels, which he
based out of his home and named after Holden
Caulfield, the lead character in J.D. Salinger’s
epic novel “Catcher in the Rye.”
Since then, Caulfield has released a total of
31 recordings by bands from across the coun
try. As the label has grown, McGinn has found
it increasingly difficult to run the operation
from his attic. So in June, McGinn talked to J
Kevin Chasek, owner Of Zero Street Records,
about moving the label into the basement of
his record store, and Chasek agreed. I
“I just wanted to see what it was like not ,
living almost 24 hours a day in the record *
label. And I wanted to see whether that made it 1
more efficient, if I would be more focused l
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Cover Art Courtesy of Caulfield Record? .
HERCY RULE is perhaps the most productive
ind popular of the bands Caulfield Records
las carried over the past 10 years. “The Flat
Hack Chronicles” is Mercy Rule’s latest
elease. Owner Bernie McGinn is working on
in album for his own band, Luck of Aleia.
