If you’ve ever walked into 429 Haight St. — or 419 Haight, or 448 Haight — to browse for records, you’ve undoubtedly encountered Dick Vivian.

Since 1987, the vinyl bon vivant has owned and operated Rooky Ricardo’s Records, which received official legacy status from the city in 2017. Both the shop – which champions music from the ’50s, ’60s and ’70s with a special affinity for soul and girl group 45s – and Vivian himself have become San Francisco icons. Just ask GQ, which profiled Dick in 2013.

“He wants you to experience love the way he does — unflinchingly, fiercely, naively,” the profile opined. “He first fell in love [with music] at the age of ten, while lying alone on his bed, and he has dedicated half of his life to recreating the feeling again and again.”

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