hello guys tokai joe still here really ready to go away but i justremembered this today and felt like i gotta leave something to
remember them by. it's that "Tower Records" that we loved so much
in the 80s and 90s. they used to be around so many before but now
only some are left mainly in the asia. amazon is great but we just
used to hang out there so much didn't we? i really used to do that
whenever i had nothing to do in wherever i was. in japan and in USA.
it's been quite a while since they are gone mostly but i still miss them
a lot whenever i remember them deeply.sometimes i really wish
they are still everywhere today like before yet i dont know if i go to
them as much as like i used to now. so a contradiction but it's really
true i really loved them and still love them deeply in my memory.
any good warm heart story from u guys everywhere in the world?
"no music, no life" they said. still mostly true ....... tokai joe. 8)
@ Tower Records in hollywood, LA today.
@ Tower Records in tokyo, japan.
@ a bit of their history from wiki for new kids who maybe dont know them well.
Tower Records is a retail music chain that was based in Sacramento, California, USA. It currently exists as an international franchise and an online music store. Starting on October 6, 2006, all 89 Tower Records stores in the United States prior to liquidation held "going-out-of-business" sales before final shutdown on the night of Friday, December 22, 2006. Tower.com was purchased by a separate entity and was not affected by the retail store closings. Seven Tower Records stores still operate in Colombia, five in Mexico, two in Ireland, and a number in Israel, Japan, and Malaysia.
Tower was founded in 1960 by Russ Solomon in Sacramento, California. The store was named after his father's drugstore, which shared a building and name with the Tower Theater, where Solomon first started selling records. The first Tower Records store was opened in 1960 on Watt Avenue in Sacramento. Tower Records on the Sunset Strip Seven years after its founding, Tower Records expanded to San Francisco, opening a store in what was originally a grocery store at Bay and Columbus streets. The chain eventually expanded internationally to include stores in Canada, UK, Japan, Hong Kong, Taiwan, Singapore, South Korea, Thailand, Malaysia, the Philippines, Ireland, Israel, UAE, Mexico, Colombia, Ecuador, and Argentina. The store also established Tower Records stores in Japan, but those stores split off from the main chain and are now independent. Arguably the most famous Tower Records outlet was the one located on the north side of Sunset Boulevard in West Hollywood, California. Across the street was the Tower Video store, also closed in 2006. In addition to CDs and cassette tapes, stores also sold DVDs, PSP movies, video games, accessories, toys and electronic gadgets like mp3 players, while a few Tower Records stores sold books as well, such as the stores in Brea, California, Nashville, Portland, and Sacramento. All these product lines are also available at Tower.com, which got its start in 1995 as one of the first music retailers to set up shop on the Internet. In New York City, twin Tower Records stores operated on and near lower Broadway?one an annex that sold vinyl records, and the other selling modern items (CDs, DVDs, etc.). The store in the East Village was famous in the 1980s for selling albums of European New Wave bands not yet popular in the U.S.
and "was a noted hangout for teenagers from throughout the metropolitan area".
8) http://r5records.com/
@ R5 Records a new store founded by Russ Solomon at the Sacramento Broadway Tower Records location.
