2500 DelMonte Street: The Oral History of Tower Records

Get the detailed story of the World's Greatest Record Store Chain, told by the people who worked and

Episodes

Total: 103

Send us a textBorn in Roseville, CA Shauna Pompei grew up in a house with a mother who dreamt of bec

Send us a textWhen Phil Myers started working at the TRIP warehouse during the 1986 holidays, he was

Send us a textRay Edwards Classical music journey started in the 3rd grade through a friend’s mother

Send us a text“Hey, you don’t remember me but you caught me stealing CDs at Tower Records once” is t

Send us a text“When Russ found out I was on the union side? He literally came up to me and went for

Send us a textBorn in Bakersfield, CA and attending college in Berkley, John Thrasher got the bug to

Send us a text“You can’t fire me!” Was it an inside joke this week’s guest shared with friends and c

Send us a textGrowing up in Encinco CA and regularly shopping the Sherman Oaks Tower Records, Bob Ka

Send us a textBorn in New York City to Greek parents, Despina “Debbie” Panagoulias eventually moved

Send us a textImagine growing up in a little town in New Jersey, sharing Beatles albums with your ol

Send us a textThis week’s guest, Julie Bianucci, was only 18 years old, far away from her hometown o

Send us a textJoining Tower Records in 1978 Jon Kerlikowske spent 14 years working and running store

Send us a textGrowing up in the 1930’s in Cincinnati OH, Rudy Danzinger’s parents weren’t music list

Send us a textBefore he started working for Tower Records Watt Avenue in 1975, today’s guest Mike Fa

Send us a textBorn to a single, loving, hippie mother and possessing a Bachelor of Fine Arts degree

Send us a textDave Muholland grew up greatly influenced by the musical taste of his older sister as

Send us a text“If you don’t have the product customer’s want, but you have a lot of the product cust

Send us a textJerry Pompei got turned onto music partially because he had two older brothers that wo

Send us a textIn 1971 Carla Henson went to interview for a Summer job at the Tower Records headquart

Send us a textJon Burk grew up in South New Jersey, just outside of Philadelphia. In the mid 70’s he