Many believe that Tower Records was named after the Capitol Records Tower close by to the former Hollywood Tower location. However, that store was the third Tower location, opened in 1968 after the success of the second store, opened in San Francisco in 1960. This was the first real Tower Records store, since the record store was actually named after the Sacramento drug store owned by Solomon's father, Tower Cut Rate Drug Retailer, where Solomon began selling records in 1941.