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History. The Tower Theatre in Sacramento, California, where Russ Solomon first sold records from his father's Tower Drugs – now the Tower Cafe. Inception, expansion, and description. In 1960, Russell Solomon opened the first Tower Records store on Broadway, in Sacramento, California.
Oct 20, 2015 · Throughout much of the 1980s, and especially during the CD boom of the '90s, Tower Records locations across the U.S. were meccas for music fans.
Sep 5, 2017 · Hanks’ subject is his favorite hometown record store, Tower Records, which began its climb to global dominance in 1941, when a Sacramento teenager named Russ Solomon and his druggist father, Clayton, sold used 3-cent jukebox 78s to their soda-fountain customers for a dime.
Apr 13, 2016 · Hanks’ subject is his favorite hometown record store, Tower Records, which began its climb to global dominance in 1941, when a Sacramento teenager named Russ Solomon and his druggist father, Clayton, sold used 3-cent jukebox 78s to their soda-fountain customers for a dime.
May 15, 2023 · The Tower Labs store and performance space. Courtesy of Tower Labs/Christian Anwander. I should point out that in the mid-1980s I was a regular contributor to Tower Records’ in-house publication Pulse, for which I interviewed musicians including Aimee Mann, J.J. Cale, and Al Stewart.
Apr 28, 2016 · There is no shortage of nostalgia for thumbing vinyl in the nicotine fug of a cramped indie record shop. But just as magical, at the other extreme, was to emerge from Piccadilly Circus tube in the late-’80s, spot the red-and-gold logo of Tower Records, and blow an afternoon in that 25,000 square-foot temple of music.
Oct 20, 2015 · Throughout much of the 1980s, and especially during the CD boom of the '90s, Tower Records locations across the U.S. were meccas for music fans.
