All Things Must Pass: The Rise and Fall of Tower Records
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way back when,
a collection of 45 rpm records,
to me that was
kind of exciting.
that was almost better
than having
a big collection of cds,
albums, and everything else.
but imagine, 45 records,
45 rpm records
a better quality
and less breakable than the 78
of ten years before,
but with all the music
you ever wanted.
in a little box.
that's what tower was about.
believe me.
it was the music
that was meaningful
to young people's lives.
and we were how they got it.
the first record
i ever bought was
bob wills,
new san antone rose.
it was like 35 cents.
the year was 1941,
and my dad had a drug store
called tower drugs.
it was in
the drugstore was tiny,
and yet they had
everything in there.
he had toys, he had liquor,
he had magazines,
cigarettes, perfume,
cosmetics, candy,
heh, you name it.
so we had a soda fountain
in that store as well,
and on the soda fountain
we had the jukebox.
one day, my dad said,
"why don't we sell
used records?"
he asked the jukebox
operator bring in
his used records,
which he brought in
and sold us the records
for three cents
and we turned round
and sold them for a dime.
we sold 'em out right away,
so my dad said,
"if we can sell used records,
we ought to be able
to sell new records."
went in to san francisco
where you could buy
all the records wholesale.
200 records cost about
less than a couple
a hundred bucks.
so we said, "fine,
we'll spend the 200 dollars,
give us a franchise,"
and bang,
we're in the record business.
during that period,
my dad actually broke th rough
the wall of the drugstore
into the empty space next door,
and he said,
"we'll put the record
department back th ere."
so we decided to call it
tower record mart.
he couldn't complain too much
because he was getting
some free labor,
but at the same time,
he didn't like the idea
that i should've been in school.
and we realized
right off the bat
that this was a big deal.
i went to my dad, i said,
"well, i want to expand.
i want to go in to this
rack-jobbing business,
expand our jukebox,
and get this and that. "
i wanted to do.
he says:
"no way, absolutely, no way.
" don't bother me.
"you want this thing,
"you buy
and then you do what you want,
but i'm not financing it."
i said, "all right."
he says:
"fine,it's yours tomorrow,
"and here's the deal:
"you have the inventory
and you have the bills that
the company owes, goodbye."
and overnight,
i was the owner of this thing.
everything he did
influenced me.
it's, how do you say,
that one imparts
and you pick it up
he was a skinny guy
who liked to have
a lot of fun,
loved music, loved dancing.
in our house.
my parents were dancing
and partying.
i'm sure there was
some drinking.
i probably started
when i was five years old.
i would go in to work with him
and sort singles.
i think she was doing
the bookkeeping at that time.
my father had a fantasy
and a dream
and a desire to open up
a supermarket of records.
at watt and el camino,
it was a tiny little store,
about a thousand
square feet, maybe.
my wonderful friend
who had been doing advertising
for the drugstore,
mick mickelson,
he said, "well,
we're changing your name.
"tower record mart,
that's too...
"we're going to call it
tower records
"and we're going to use
shell oil company colors.
"and i'm going to design
that nobody's
ever seen before."
and he literally,
drew that letter.
you know, in sacramento
there weren't very many places
for kids to hang out.
there was, like downtown,
there was places,
so it was, you know,
tower books and records
were in like this parking lot
surrounded by nothing.
and for kids in high school,
that's what you did.
you know,
you went to tower records.
it was
the beginning of the folk era,
and so we would sit
in the parking lot at tower
and play music.
so the guitar guys would come,
and the banjo guys would come,
and we'd play music
and then you'd go
into the record store
and into the listening booths
and listen
to as much as you could
because you couldn't
afford to buy any records.
.p walk right in .p
.p sit right down .p
i daddy let your mind
go long... .p
there were make out sessions
in the listening booths,
people had sex
in listening booths.
we put really big lights
in there
so they'd be
as hot as possible
so that you couldn't stay
in there too long.
j do you want
to lose your mind... i
it was the only place i knew.
you'd walk down the aisle
and you could just see
from the front of the store
to the back of that aisle,
you know, somebody came up
with that terminology,
stack 'em high and sell 'em low.
yeah, the managers
and the employees were young,
they loved music,
they were enjoying themselves.
they were having a lot of fun,
which was a good thing,
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