Spent an hour Friday in the corporate headquarters of Tower Records in West Sacramento, CA. Boxes line the hallways and offices, and employees are emailing last farewells, as the once-mighty retailer slides into bankruptcy — and perhaps new life under new ownership.
I met Tower founder Russ Solomon (snapped the photo above) and will have a video interview with him up, perhaps Christmas week.
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I worked at Tower HQ for a while. There’s a number of things that contributed to it’s deterioration. Tower will always be an american icon to the people who worked there and I look forward to hearing the interview.