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Ep. 20 Mark Ryan (Tower Canada)
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This week’s guest, Mark Ryan, is Canadian.
Don’t let that stop you from listening.
Mark was on site the very first day of building the Tower Records store in Toronto, ON and he was the last person to lock the doors six years later.
“To this day, it’s still the best job I ever had. It was a dream job”. On this episode of the “2500 DelMonte Street: The Oral History of Tower Records” podcast, Mark fills in all the spaces in between.
Mark talks to us about meeting at an Amanda Marshall (look her up) record release party in Toronto, interviewing for Tower’s first store in Canada and landing the gig. In a short time, Mark soaked up all that was Tower and moved from one position to another until trained to take over the store as General Manager at Yonge & Queen Street 2.5 years after starting.
We also talk about the outstanding in-stores at Tower Toronto, talking on the phone on 9/11 moments after the second plane hit the towers and how Mark attended his first Tower Annual Conference as a cardboard cut out manufactured by Renee Tyler.
Our conversation ends with Mark learning about Tower Canada’s closure through a newspaper interview and the difficulty in closing down a store, something all Tower Managers would experience a mere five years later.
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