“Everything about The Cave, it’s based
on Dimple, but it’s the amplification of
everything that made Dimple good.”
Brian McCulloch, co-owner, The Cave
lectible. In the year since The Cave launched on Arden Way,
it’s done well. “By Christmas, we were on cruise control,”
Brian says. “I thought, after Christmas, we were going to
dip. But it didn’t.”
In early October, The Cave is expected to move into a
9,000-square-foot store in Folsom that was one of Dimple’s
seven stores. Andrew and Brian will be taking over the
lease from John and Dilyn, and Andrew will be bankroll-
ing The Cave with a loan taken out against his house. He’s
confident the mission of buy-sell-trade that kept Dimple
sustainable through numerous challenges will do wonders
for The Cave on a larger, nerdier scale.
“When you incorporate the best elements of Dimple
and you retain those … you can add in all these other lay-
ers,” Andrew says. “I want it to be the whole family, where
the dad can come in and look at the collectibles, the mom’s
going to come in and look at the apparel, the kids are going
to come in and play with the toys.”
The Cave will be more than just a retail outlet. Brian
and Andrew say they want to host events that will engage
members of the community in Folsom and beyond. That
was hard for Dimple to do with seven stores, but Brian is
confident The Cave will be able to pull it off. “With one
store, we can focus on the events, we can try to do some-
thing maybe once a week or every two weeks. … It’s some-
thing we need to do to get people in.”
And it will be a place for people who miss Dimple too.
“Will Dimple leave a void? It will,” Andrew says. When peo-
ple start to reminisce about Dimple’s 40-plus-year legacy
In late August, the Dimple Records stores were grossing $30,000-$40,000
per week, according to Andrew Radakovitz. photo by matthew keys
in the Sacramento region, he hopes they’ll live out some of
those memories by popping into The Cave.
For John and Dilyn, the closure of Dimple will be fol-
lowed by several weeks of rest and relaxation — no more
having to make sure the orders get fulfilled, or worrying
about which day an album will come out, or how to balance
higher costs against squeezed margins on certain inventory.
John says he’d like to travel, though he notes he’s been to just
about every country in the world. “We like to go on cruises,”
he says. And, from time to time, John and Dilyn may pop into
The Cave to buy, sell or trade something, just as Dimple had
done before. n
Matthew Keys is the digital editor for Comstock’s. On Facebook
at FB.com/MatthewKeys.
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