: On about 501-531 N. Lake Shore Dr, There was a building that belonged to RCA, What was it's purpose & When did this place shut down?.The N. Lake Shore facility was RCA's famed "Mid-America Recording Center." Those studios cut the majority of the lacquers of all the original Motown (and subsidiary) LP's and 45's from the 1960's to the early '70's. Acts from the Guess Who to Poco to Alice Cooper recorded there. In 1973 (in a situation reminiscent of Victor Kiam viz Remington razors), Curtis Mayfield, who'd done virtually all of his recording in that studio, took it over after RCA bailed out; it then became Curtom Recording Studios, which lasted until about 1980.
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