by LA Stylin
According to a bizjournal article by Mark Anderson, Tower Records store at 8801 West Sunset Blvd., THE place to go to buy music on the Sunset Strip in the 1970s and 1980s, will be leveled for, what else, a 3-story strip mall.
As downloading of music from web sites became easy and popular, many of the retail stores vanished. The one-story West Hollywood concrete block structure with a glass wall facing its parking lot was built in 1971. An attempt by local preservationists to save the building, perhaps for a rock-'n'-roll museum, was unsuccessful. Many celebrities were often sighted browsing through album covers and wall racks of cassettes and CDs (and even 8-tracks, earlier). - We remember seeing Donna Summer, the Sylvers, Rick James and many others.
As downloading of music from web sites became easy and popular, many of the retail stores vanished. The one-story West Hollywood concrete block structure with a glass wall facing its parking lot was built in 1971. An attempt by local preservationists to save the building, perhaps for a rock-'n'-roll museum, was unsuccessful. Many celebrities were often sighted browsing through album covers and wall racks of cassettes and CDs (and even 8-tracks, earlier). - We remember seeing Donna Summer, the Sylvers, Rick James and many others.