What a year. Anyway, they sold records, cd's, cassettes, and assorted music-related merchandise, and were opening up a store in Waterbury. My friend and I applied for jobs, and got hired. Record Town was a bright new construction at Wolcott Street. My first ever general manager, Ted K. The store had one of the first sticker-sensor alarm systems that I can remember, and we put these metallic stickers with very adhesive glue on everything. God, I can still hear that alarm beep, it was so loud when it went off.
The worst though, was the cassette shucks, these heavy plastic contraptions that were ridiculously easy to break. We used to have to use a special orange key to slip them open. It was funny when the in-store music suddenly went off, and you could hear the 4 kids in the Rock cassette aisle breaking them open. We caught so many shoplifters.
I worked at Record Town for 3 years, from We couldn't keep those in stock. White rappers? Frat boy rock? C'mon, it was Preppy Handbook was hot. I also remember that people were stealing the promotional photos of Michael right out of our store's fixtures.
What a difference a decade made after that, huh? There was always a rumor that we were going to get a Ticketmaster outlet, but we never did. It used to be in the G. Another thing that I'll never forget, watching hundreds of shopping carts from Edwards and Toys R Us rolling down the lot into either our curb, or more fun, someone's vehicle.
You paid a price for parking in front of Record Town, that's why we always pulled nearer Wolcott St. Game Stop next door has been there for a very long time. It was a strange feeling walking into Casual Male, and then Denny's. It's a Crunch Fitness now. Here's a Google street view of the building from Large Dave Published: April 29, Share on Facebook Share on Twitter.
