Michael Pawlicki is coming up fast on the 40th anniversary of the day he left a job at ZIA Records to get it on the ground floor of a new store, Eastside Records, launched by two fellow ZIA employees in a tiny shopping plaza at University Drive and Ash Avenue in Tempe.
That store ended its reign as a cultural hub on the Valley underground in 2010.
Three years later, Pawlicki was back behind the counter at his own new store, the Ghost of Eastside Records, as part of The Double Nickels collective at Tempe’s Danelle Plaza, a few doors down from Yucca Tap Room…