Melody Records Shop, a fixture of Dupont Circle, is closing its doors after some 34 years. Co-owner and President Jack Menase explains why the family music store is done. So you opened your shop in 1977. Why are you closing now?

We cannot compete anymore with the technology and the Internet that has affected our music industry. … We want it to be remembered the way the store was. We didn’t want to go any more down and then close it in worse conditions.