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Monthly Archives: October 2006

Tower Records

Tower’s demise would mean little to me except that my first sustained job in New York was at Tower Records’ Lincoln Center location, at Broadway and 66th Street. For 8 or 9 months I organized and shelved inventory in the classical cassette department. No one else wanted to do cassettes, and management did not take them seriously. CDs had already usurped LPs, and cassettes were the next format headed for obsolescence.

“Are You an American?”

Strange encounter today. Walking along, I see a man trying to move a couple of large pieces of wood. He is having trouble with the job, but it looks like he simply needs to get the two large slabs positioned on a push-cart. Contemplating the world of hurt I could be walking into, I instead thought “This could be interesting.”