Norfolk City Virginia USGenWeb Archives Obituaries.....Levine, Mike January 5, 1988
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Virginian-Pilot, January 6, 1988
NORFOLK - Mike Levine, who in 1946 founded Groove Record Shops, the first music 
shop in the area devoted exclusively to the sale of phonograph records, died 
Jan. 5, 1988 in a hospital. He was 76.
Mr. Levine opened his first music store in the 800 block of Church St, after he 
was honorably discharged from the Army. Mr. Levine's son, Leonard D. Levine of 
Virginia Beach said his father foresaw a demand in record sales by veterans who 
were being discharged.
"When the military people had become used to phonograph records as a form of 
entertainment, he foresaw they would take this with them into their civilian 
lives," he said.
A native of New York City, Mr. Levine attended Brooklyn public schools. He 
moved to this area in 1935 after he married Frances Coleman, a native of 
Norfolk. He operated a grocery store on Llewellyn Avenue until the beginning of 
World War II, when he enlisted in the Army. He went into the music business 
after he was discharged in 1945.
Mr. Levine opened other music stores including one in the 400 block of Granby 
St, and a third location on High Street in Portsmouth. He sold Groove Record 
Shops in the early 1980s to Variety Records, now Mother's Records and Tape Co.
He was a member of B'Nai Israel Congregation, Beth Sholom, and Jewish War 
Veterans. He was a past president of B'Nai Israel Men's Club.
In addition to his wife and son, he is survived by two other sons, Robert N. 
Levine of San Francisco and Paul A. Levine of Norfolk; two sisters, Norma L. 
Grobman of Dayton, NJ, and Ann L. Meyer of New York City; a brother, Herman 
Levine of Tucson, AZ; and seven grandchildren.
The funeral will be conducted at 1:30 p.m. today at H. D. Oliver Funeral Apts, 
Norfolk, by the Rabbi Israel Bornstein. Burial will be in B'Nai Israel Cemetery.

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