![]() ![]() ➜ Answer questions enthusiastically.Please do read our feedback to see what our customers say about the job we do. ➜ Have a no-questions asked return policy. ! ♫ Q: WHY ME? A: BECAUSE I: ➜ Pack correctly. Follow me, mikefarrace on TWITTER for exclusive announcements about upcoming eBay auctions. If you want quick feedback, please drop me a note. Illustrator: Frank Carson Year: 1976 Size: 12 x 42 Method: Offset Lithograph ! If you have questions about my stuff or yours, please do write me, Mike Farrace. More than any record chain, the iconic Tower Records, with its aisles teeming with record business vibes as customers, retail buyers and record company salesmen bought, sold and talked music and recordings, has become representative of a record store culture that has all but vanished. These art prints and calendars, especially the early and very late years, are increasingly rare. After Carson mysteriously disappeared in the late '80s, a number of different approaches were used to adorn the calendars, from hiring notable fine artists like Jerald Silva to acquiring art by holding competitions between store artists and employees. They are quite beautiful, evolving from early shots of bountiful hippie chicks and deco Egyptian themes to bountiful contemporary chicks surrounded by symbols of popular culture. Artist Frank Carson did virtually all of the calendars from the early '70s through the '90s. He named it after his father's drugstore, which shared a building and name with the Tower Theatre, where Solomon first started selling records. The Tower prints featured high-quality lithography on heavy coated stock. In 1960, Russell Solomon opened the first Tower Records store on Broadway, in Sacramento, California. They were highly sought-after and often turned up in TV sitcoms and movies, such as the music movie FM or the long-running TV sitcom WKRP in Cincinnati. The printing plates were changed to create numerous editions with each station or sponsor's logo, and the result would then be distributed primarily through the Tower stores in that particular market, but also by the stations during promotions. Tower created calendars for almost three decades, most of which were produced in cooperation with the radio stations, who would pay or trade for the insertion of their logo on a certain number of the calendars. We think the first Tower calendar was published in 1975. ![]() Later, the prints and calendars publicized store openings or took the form of calendars which touted the local radio stations in Tower store markets all over the country. Courtesy of All Things Must Pass These days, virtually every type of music imaginable is at. Cat Stevens, the Jefferson Airplane and Bob Dylan were just a few of the artists whose image or work graced early Tower prints. On top of the world: Tower Records founder Russ Solomon above his Sacramento, Calif., store in 1989. They date back to the early '60s and might have been one-offs celebrating a concert, a poster created to be used in-store to publicize a certain release or just a fun thing printed up because somebody liked a band and wanted to do something nice for them. ![]() " The number of prints Tower did over the years is unknown. These very collectible Tower Records calendars and art prints were made throughout Tower's long tenure billed as the "greatest record store in the known world. This original Tower Calendar was published by Tower Records in 1976. So now Supreme has turned the Tower Records building into a mere shell of a metal frame now. Sadly, the original bricks of the store were just taken away in dump trucks where I am sure many of the Tower Records fans would have loved to have one of those bricks as a memory of decades of the most amazing music store in the world.Tower Records Original 1st Printing 1976 Calendar Lithograph by Frank Carson This original printing was published by Tower Records in 1976. Supreme knew this and made sure to avoid the risk of both city meetings where they would have to face residents speaking for two minutes about the construction plans and impact of this scandalous sneaker drop event business. This was definitely not at all what Supreme discussed regarding the renovations with the neighborhood residents. This way Supreme cleverly knew without razing the building completely they could just do an “over the counter” permit at the planning department at West Hollywood City Hall, thus, bypassing the more formal longer process of going in front of the planning commission and city council. Sorry, there are no polls available at the moment.īut now we see this week that the building has been totally gutted where all the walls have been removed. ![]()
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