Local DJs named seven Bay Area record shops for an SF Standard column — a map running from 4124 Broadway in Oakland to 419 Haight — but the list carries Rooky Ricardo's late owner, Dick Vivian, in the present tense, three weeks after his death.

Read as a map instead of a listicle, the seven vinyl shops that Bay Area DJs named this week for the SF Standard's "Pro Tips" column — a recurring feature, this edition reported by culture intern Meg Tanaka and published Aug. 16 — trace the exact geography of a small-business scene streaming was supposed to have killed. It starts across the bay, at Cone Shape Top, 4124 Broadway in Oakland: a shop small enough, per the DJ who picked it, to learn your taste, heavy on electronic and ambient, its bins constantly turning over. From there the pins land in the Lower Haight (Groove Merchant Records, 687 Haight St., where the pitch is French prog rock from 1974, not current pop), the Fillmore (Originals Vinyl, 701 Fillmore St., funk and soul and psych under an owner named Matt), the Outer Richmond (Tunnel Records, 2200 Clement St., pitched as the approachable entry point), and the Mission (Discodelic, 3174 24th St., where the specialty is salsa, boogaloo, cumbia and Latin psych, sourced by collectors who travel for it).

The seventh is the one everyone knows: Amoeba Music (external source, opens in a new tab), 1855 Haight St., the converted bowling alley that has anchored the upper Haight since 1997.

Six of those seven storefronts are exactly where the DJs left them. The sixth is the one that isn't quite: Rooky Ricardo's Records, 419 Haight St., picked for its deep stacks of 45s and soul sides and for the man behind the counter. (The column lists the address as 429; the shop's legacy-business status (external source, opens in a new tab) and its own listings put it at 419 Haight.) The DJ who chose it, Nicole Uranga, points to "the long-running presence of owner Dick Vivian, 'a wealth of knowledge.'" It ran in the present tense.

Vivian, the shop's 78-year-old owner, died on July 24 — The Dissent reported it nearly three weeks before that column published. He had spent decades turning a Lower Haight storefront into a gathering place for collectors across the Bay, and won the shop city legacy-business status in 2017. The list isn't wrong about what Rooky's is. It's a beat behind on who's no longer in it.

That's the honest thing a map shows that a "best of" doesn't. A vinyl scene is a set of specific addresses held open by specific people, and the people change faster than the storefronts. What someone walking Haight Street tomorrow will find is the same sign at 419, the same crates of 45s — and, for now, an open question about who keeps them turning.