Assuming you are referring to the B&N and Borders in Minneapolis, I never did go there- It was Garage D'Or for me, and before it burnt, Oarfolkjokeopus.

Imports: Expensive and with a loose-fitting shrink wrap. Yes.

I remember marveling at the painted reproductions of current LP covers at the Sunset Tower, and all the music billboards on Sunset- like the Boz Skaggs MiddleMan cover, which at that size featured a camel toe about ten feet high.

I bought so many records at the Tower on Sunset in Hollywood.
Get paid Friday, Tower on Saturday. Ahhhh, 1979.

What a sweet, lovely man. Thank you for this!

Steven Tyler, proud Rodent-American.

It's pretty much your Standard Ridgway.

"Are you wavin' the flag at me?"

Well, that's just, like, your opinion, man.

All roads lead sooner or later to Withnail And I. It's a fact!

Back when I lived in Los Angeles one would occasionally spot graffiti reading STOP THE RAILROAD OF KEN AVAKIAN which naturally made one ponder who could afford their own private locomotive.

Pedicabo ego vos!

"What's your name- MacFuck?"

4. Wipe hands on pants

It'll be even more fucking great when you get off my lawn.

Whorn is also essential. It features the work of their then-new drummer Freddie Votel who did fascinating work with the great TVBC.

Yes, live these guys were a hastily assembled yet strangely efficient killing machine. Second to last time I saw 'em featured S Selberg in a shaving-cream beard with cheerleader's pompons. Last time spotlighted K Rutmanis in a priest getup.

My God! It's full of stars!

To further muddy the waters, the bass player on 'Daily Nightly' and the rest of the album was named Chip Douglas. Which means that at least one of the characters on My Three Sons was a professional bass player. Whaaaaa?

Hunh. I had a similar experience in LA in '80 when the boss suggested we ditch work and see a movie, which resulted in us all getting high as bats and going to see The Ninth Configuration of all things.