Tower Records is an international retail franchise and online music store that was formerly based in Sacramento, California, United States.
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22 Facts About Tower Records
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On November 13,2020, Tower Records announced that it had returned as an online retailer.
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Tower Records named it after his father's drugstore, which shared a building and name with the Tower Theatre, where Solomon first started selling records.
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The first stand-alone Tower Records store was located at 2514 Watt Ave in Arden Arcade, a suburb of Sacramento.
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Seven years after its founding, Tower Records expanded to San Francisco, opening a store in what was originally a grocery store at Bay Street and Columbus Avenue.
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Arguably the most famous Tower Records outlet was the purpose built building that company staff general-contracted, with many personally contributing their labor, which opened in 1971 on the north west corner of Sunset Boulevard and Horn Avenue in West Hollywood.
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In New York City, Tower Records operated a suite of stores on and near lower Broadway in Greenwich Village.
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The Tower Records Annex was in the same building, located at the southwest corner of East 4th and Lafayette Street.
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The third store, Tower Video, was located on the southeast corner of East 4th and Lafayette Street, and specialized in video and the second floor of this location sold books.
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Tower Records entered Chapter 11 bankruptcy for the first time in 2004.
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R5 Tower Records closed on June 4,2010, and was sold to rival Dimple Tower Records, which reopened the store in mid-July 2010.
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Tower Records building in Boston, located at the intersection of Newbury Street and Massachusetts Avenue, was instrumental in the conversion of the former street's commercial value.
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Tower Records opened a second location in Toronto in the late nineties at Empress Walk in North York, on Yonge Street, but it was closed just prior to the flagship store closing.
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Tower Records Israel opened in 1993; a joint venture between Tower Records USA and two local businessmen.
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In 2014, Tower Records launched the music review website Mikiki, which posts content from the previously mentioned magazines.
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Tower Records Japan has a subsidiary record label called T-Palette Records, which specializes in idol performers.
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In 2020, Tower Records Philippines has been re-launched and re-opened because of Filipino girl group Baby Blue a sub-unit of idol girl group MNL48.
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Tower Records opened stores in South Korea in the 1990s, with stores in Seoul and Busan.
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