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Tower Records
1960–2006
“Hours lost flipping through the racks.”
Record Stores
The yellow-and-red record superstore where an afternoon vanished into the racks — bins of vinyl, then CDs, wall-to-wall posters, and clerks who actually knew the deep cuts. You came for one album and left with three you didn't plan on. The U.S. stores closed in 2006 after bankruptcy.
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Sam Goody
1951–2006
“Where the mall trip always ended.”
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1985–2010
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1986–2008
“The mall's wall of movies.”
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