2500 DelMonte Street: The Oral History of Tower Records

Send us Fan Mail Erik Flannigan is a writer, music archivist and Manager currently based out of Los Angeles. He started shopping at Tower Records in Tacoma, WA thanks to a yearly Gift Certificate a relative would send him each Christmas.  He worked at Tower Records Tacoma for one year with Jeff Prey as GM and Tony Siegel as Assistant Manager. He would go on to be Editor of Backstreets Magazine and...

Send us Fan Mail Joel Abramson had a unique & varied career with Tower Records. A native New Yorker, he found his calling in the City of the Angels, helped open up Tower Internationally by laying claim to Israel and finished his career at the Corporate Office in Sacramento as Director of Purchasing.  Joel talks to us about the cocky (his words) first interview with Bob Delanoy, working in the...

Send us Fan Mail Diane Rea started out as a teenager with Tower Records in Oregon, but that wasn’t her first experience working in professional entertainment. Diane talks to us about her time at the Beaverton, OR store and what the phrase “Manager’s Meeting” meant, her move to San Francisco’s Columbus & Bay store after a disastrous interview with Ken Sockolov, and why ending her career at the...

Send us Fan Mail In this second interview with former Tower Records COO Stan Goman, he tells us about his transition from the field to the Main Office, his relationship with Russ Solomon, why Tower Records never opened stores in Florida, did Apple Computers approach Tower Records to sell the new iMacs in 1998,  how fancy restaurants chosen by the record labels didn’t impress him and how he dealt w...

Send us Fan Mail Former Tower Records Chief Operating Officer Stan Goman talks about the early days working at Tower Drugstore up to his time running stores in Sacramento, Los Angeles and San Francisco. 

Send us Fan Mail In this episode your host, Bob Zimmerman, details the reasons behind launching a weekly podcast exploring the ins & outs of the World's greatest Record Store chain, Tower Records.