Val’s halla was born July 26, 1972 following the demise of a small record chain I had managed from the same location since 1968.
One week after the fall of the chain, I was able to lease the empty location that had been my home for almost five years and — with the all-volunteer efforts of former employees — literally brought a myth to life.
After almost four decades in our original home on South blvd, the spectre of...