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 text“It was better than going to college. I wouldn’t have traded it for anything,” is how

Send us a textBorn in Mexico City, raised in Chicago and moved to California at age 12, Monica Ricar

Ep. 20 Mark Ryan (Tower Canada)

2022/10/11

Send us a textThis week’s guest, Mark Ryan, is Canadian. Don’t let that stop you from listening. Mar

Send us a textThis week’s guest, Dave Coker, was shopping at the original Tower Records location in

Send us a textThis week’s guest has an extensive music retail resume. Prior to working at Tower Reco

Send us a textIf you had to bet which employee of Tower Records had visited the Playboy Mansion the

Send us a text“He was the most important factor in any type of music education I had” says this week

Send us a text“It was all music, all the time” is the way our guest this week, Wendy Powell, describ

Send us a text“I don’t think I ever recovered from Tower going away” Zev Feldman tells us towards th

Send us a textYou’ve gotten the call to go to Japan and run Tower Records Asian Operations…now what?

Send us a textWhen you're a carpenter and it's getting into the rainy/cold season, what do

Send us a textRick Dorsey is a 20 year Tower Records veteran. Starting his career in West Covina in

Send us a textIn 1984 Suzy Leydonfrost was attending the School of Visual Arts in NYC, when she deci

Send us a textOnce Upon A Time In Hollywood, a young man named Robert Stapleton applied for a job at

Send us a textTerri Williams started working at Tower owned Central Valley Record Racks in 1975 at 1

Send us a textTim Devin started working record retail in the Bay Area for Wherehouse Records. On new

Send us a textFor someone who spent two years campaigning for a minimum wage job at Tower Records Ro

Send us a textErik Flannigan is a writer, music archivist and Manager currently based out of Los Ang

Send us a textJoel Abramson had a unique & varied career with Tower Records. A native New Yorker

Send us a textDiane Rea started out as a teenager with Tower Records in Oregon, but that wasn’t her