Historic Tower Records sign disappeared. Without city’s OK, it’s now in an office

Count Gretchen Steinberg among those not happy about the new location of a historic sign associated with Tower Records.

The sign features two teenagers dancing atop a record. It sat for many years displayed above Tower Cafe, which is located at the site of a former drugstore where Tower Records founder Russ Solomon first sold records. The sign came down roughly two years ago and recently resurfaced inside Tower District offices at 1508 Broadway.

Steinberg, a South Land Park resident who is active in local historic causes, said she’d interviewed Solomon about two years before his 2018 death and that he’d referred to the 1949 sign as “The dancing kids sign.” She has quietly been trying to raise awareness about the sign’s status for more than a year…

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