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TOWER YOU WILL NEVER BE FORGOTTEN. LONG LIVE THE SPIRIT OF TOWER RECORDS.Across town at the chain's Santa Monica store, four people positioned around the Third Street Promenade wielded large cardboard placards advertising the liquidation sale. According to Mike Martin, 30, the store's receiving supervisor, longtime customers had been responding to the news with sadness and anger. "Some of the regulars are mad," he said. "We have a lot of customers in their 60s and 70s. They can't believe it's closing." Further, Martin said Great American has not won karma points among employees.Many people had hoped the Los Angeles-based liquidator would not place the highest bid in last week's auction for Tower's assets. Soon about 3,000 people will be out of jobs. "Now they're just trying to blow everything out and make a quick dollar," Martin said. LOS ANGELES TIMES CALENDER SECTION 10/11/06. SANTA MONICA DAILY PRESS ARTICLE OCT-25-2006.Russ Solomon opened the first Tower Records in 1960 in Sacramento. The company eventually opened close to 90 stores across the country — including its landmark store on Hollywood’s Sunset Strip — and 144 franchised stores in nine different countries. With 60,000 CDs and 6,000 DVDs, the Tower Records in Santa Monica represents one of the smallest stores in the company. As of Tuesday, more than 50 percent of the merchandise remained, according to Manager Jennnifer Jacobson. “The more the consumer buys, the quicker my clerks can get on with their lives and find new employment,” Jacobson said. “Each day, we open the doors and it’s really hard on all of us. This has been a career for some people. On Tuesday, beneath 20-percent discount banners and signs screaming “sale on everything,” customers scavenged for bargains up and down the aisles of Tower. ”Pat Gorman, of Santa Monica, was busy shopping for classical, Celtic and Hawaiian music. Tower Records is the best place to find an album that is hard to locate, even on the Internet, she said. Employees say they are sad that they will have to leave a favorite job. Some have spent their entire careers at Tower Records and are unsure what the future holds. “I’m mad, like everybody else,” said Mike Martin, a clerk since 1999. “It’s a pretty sad thing for such a big company to go like this.” Martin also works part-time at The Gap, located around the corner on the Third Street Promenade. Tower Records is more of a landmark than anything else,Martin said, and a popular destination for tourists. “It’ll be sad when they come for vacation and it’s not here,” he said.Nick Weissman had hoped to jump-start a producing career in the entertainment or music industry through a clerking job at Tower, where he started less than two months ago. Weissman had hoped to pass along a resume to some of Tower’s sponsors, like Universal Music and Warner Bros. For Weissman, it is the second time a company has closed down less than three months after he was hired. He was also an employee at Robinson’s May for two months when Federated Department Stores announced it was buying May Department Stores.“I got the dream job I always wanted and now I have to sell it,”Weissman said. “I have no idea what is next.

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