A car crashing into their record store on New Year’s Day was the last thing Mallory McClaire and Chantala Kommanivanh expected. But the husband-and-wife team was determined not to let the accident end a business they had worked hard to build in the Beverly neighborhood.
Nearly a year later, the owners of Beverly Phono Mart celebrated a new beginning with the grand opening of their permanent location at 1802 W. 103rd St. Saturday, Nov. 7.
The new shop was just three doors down from their original location at 1808 W. 103rd St., where the couple had opened Beverly Phono Mart, also known as BPM, in August 2021.
The idea for the business had come during the pandemic. McClaire and Kommanivanh often drove to record stores in other communities, only to find many of them closed. They realized there were probably other people in Beverly and Morgan Park looking for a place to shop for records, and decided to open one themselves…