Tower Records, West Hollywood, 1971

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Tower Records 1971: https://archive.org/details/casacsh_000018

A few years would pass before I would encounter a record store of this size. In 1971 I was buying most of my records from my neighborhood shop, good old Standard Records and Hi-Fi. Google Street View shows the building battered but still standing. How tiny it is! As I remember it, the right one third of the storefront was devoted to selling stereos, which means the record store was not very much wider than a first generation Honda CR-V is long.

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