The campaign to preserve West Hollywood’s former Tower Records store on Sunset Boulevard by designating it as a historic landmark failed in November https://wehoonline.com/2013/11/19/weho-council-affirms-decision-declare-tower-records-cultural-resource/. But that doesn’t mean the store at 8801 Sunset Blvd. doesn’t live on.
Dangerousminds.net found and posted http://dangerousminds.net/comments/fantastic_footage_documenting_the_tower_records_shopping_experience_of_1971 the video above that was shot by Sacramento City College professor Darrell Forney in 1971. The video is likely to be especially educational for those readers who only know how to buy music by downloading from iTunes. People really did, once upon a time, walk into stores to buy round plastic items they called records!
The store closed in 2006 when its Sacramento-based parent company went bankrupt. It was said to have been the largest record store in the world, a claim mentioned in the following video commercial recorded by John Lennon and preserved by the Sacramento History Foundation’s Tower Records Project.
