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  • Founder of Tower Records dies at 92 while drinking whiskey and watching the Oscars

    03/06/2018 9:24:38 AM PST · by rightwingintelligentsia · 76 replies
    Sacramento Bee ^ | March 5, 2018 | DALE KASLER AND BOB SHALLIT
    Talk about the perfect coda: Tower Records founder Russ Solomon died with a drink in his hand and a smart-aleck remark on his lips. The swashbuckling, visionary entrepreneur who built a global retailing empire and the most famous company in Sacramento history died Sunday night of an apparent heart attack. He was 92. Solomon was watching the Academy Awards ceremony Sunday night at his Sacramento-area home when he was stricken, said his son, Michael Solomon, the former chief executive of Tower. "Ironically, he was giving his opinion of what someone was wearing that he thought was ugly, then asked (his...