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- Birth nameRussell Malcolm Solomon
- Russ Solomon was born on September 22, 1925 in Sacramento, California, USA. He was an executive. He was married to Patti Drosins and Doris Epstein. He died on March 4, 2018 in Sacramento, California, USA.
- SpousesPatti Drosins(2010 - March 4, 2018) (his death)Doris Epstein(1946 - 1973) (divorced, 2 children)
- Founder of Tower Records.
- Passed away while watching The Oscars (2018) on TV.
- Many believe that Tower Records was named after the Capitol Records Tower close by to the former Hollywood Tower location. However, that store was the third Tower location, opened in 1968 after the success of the second store, opened in San Francisco in 1960. This was the first real Tower Records store, since the record store was actually named after the Sacramento drug store owned by Solomon's father, Tower Cut Rate Drug Retailer, where Solomon began selling records in 1941.
- He was a high school dropout who sold used jukebox records out of his father's drugstore. He built a business that eventually had almost 200 stores in several countries. His stores also sold books and, eventually, videos.
- He studied photography in art school, then served as a radar technician in the Army during WWII. After the war, he was a "rack jobber," stocking store shelves with vinyl records.
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