JOv2
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Here are four photos dated 14SEP68 reportedly from inside the plant.
The date seem plausible. Wikipedia claims Big Brother and the Holding Company / Cheap Thrills was released 12AUG68. Note the presence of SP-4140.
Seeing the "go-fer" employees rollerskating to and fro (note the wrist wrap — an on-the-job accident?) is a reminder of just how substantial and timely the record biz was by the late 1960s.
I remember the Columbia "eye" on the building, which was visible from US-101. As a kid in the late '60s / early '70s, we would drive by this plant northbound on US-101 heading up to San Luis Obispo, Monterey, or Santa Cruz. Once, I asked my dad if we could go inside someday and he told me it was a record factory — not a record store — and that no one could enter except employees…I could only daydream at the cache of unknown LPs and music inside that huge building…
The date seem plausible. Wikipedia claims Big Brother and the Holding Company / Cheap Thrills was released 12AUG68. Note the presence of SP-4140.
Seeing the "go-fer" employees rollerskating to and fro (note the wrist wrap — an on-the-job accident?) is a reminder of just how substantial and timely the record biz was by the late 1960s.
I remember the Columbia "eye" on the building, which was visible from US-101. As a kid in the late '60s / early '70s, we would drive by this plant northbound on US-101 heading up to San Luis Obispo, Monterey, or Santa Cruz. Once, I asked my dad if we could go inside someday and he told me it was a record factory — not a record store — and that no one could enter except employees…I could only daydream at the cache of unknown LPs and music inside that huge building…