2500 DelMonte Street: The Oral History of Tower Records
Bob Zimmerman
104 episodes
1 month ago
Send us a text Growing up in Seattle, Washington, this week’s guest, Peter Ames Carlin, has a distinct memory of the hubub surrounding the release of The Beatles “Sgt Pepper’s Lonely Heart’s Club Band” even though he was only 4 years old at the time. “I have very vivid memories of “Sgt Pepper” being the new record…and then “The White Album” and puzzling through that stuff when I was very young” Spending most of his life as a writer, for newspapers, People Magazine and co-authoring a few boo...
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Send us a text Growing up in Seattle, Washington, this week’s guest, Peter Ames Carlin, has a distinct memory of the hubub surrounding the release of The Beatles “Sgt Pepper’s Lonely Heart’s Club Band” even though he was only 4 years old at the time. “I have very vivid memories of “Sgt Pepper” being the new record…and then “The White Album” and puzzling through that stuff when I was very young” Spending most of his life as a writer, for newspapers, People Magazine and co-authoring a few boo...
Ep. 97 Kat Gavin (Philadelphia: South Street, Avenue of the Arts)
2500 DelMonte Street: The Oral History of Tower Records
1 hour 26 minutes
1 year ago
Ep. 97 Kat Gavin (Philadelphia: South Street, Avenue of the Arts)
Send us a text When Kat Gavin was born, her mother was only 18 years old. And as a result, Kat’s crib was right next to the stereo. So to say Kat grew up “with music” would be an understatement. After a stint working record retail in the malls of Northeast Philadelphia, Kat made her way into Center City Philadelphia and got a job at Tower Records South Street. It was there she met, worked, and bonded with so many of “her people”. It was there she met her former husband, Geoff Gavin, a...
2500 DelMonte Street: The Oral History of Tower Records
Send us a text Growing up in Seattle, Washington, this week’s guest, Peter Ames Carlin, has a distinct memory of the hubub surrounding the release of The Beatles “Sgt Pepper’s Lonely Heart’s Club Band” even though he was only 4 years old at the time. “I have very vivid memories of “Sgt Pepper” being the new record…and then “The White Album” and puzzling through that stuff when I was very young” Spending most of his life as a writer, for newspapers, People Magazine and co-authoring a few boo...
