Could PTA have chosen a worse title?

I found out about that.

This post was written before the current title.

That's right, it started out as "Soggy Bottom" -- after the waterbed angle, but the words all by themselves are kinda gross -- like somebody wet their pants.

Licorice Pizza is known to us of a certain generation "automatically" and can be looked up by a younger generation and -- it just sounds good and once you know it means "LP record album" (which are long gone) it is exactly descriptive.

As I recall, the Licorice Pizza chain was set up to compete with Tower Records and ultimately lost the battle. But some years later, Tower Records itself folded as Spotify and streaming took over.

It was a heady time in the 70's. One awaited the release of a major new album -- say by The Stones or the Eagles -- just like one would await the release day of a major movie like "Jaws." And on a given day, stacks of the "licorice pizza" in question would arrive at the record store and be put on display and you would race down there to buy it and get it home and play it (a radio hit or two gave you a "taste of the new candy.")

The combination of radio play AND record stores was fun. I recall in Los Angeles when the Beatles "White Album" came out in late 1968, one local channel (KHJ from Once Upon a Time In Hollywood) would play one song from the new album on the hour(Back in the USSR, Blackbird, While My Guitar Gently Weeps etc) until we could hear the entire album in a couple of days --and race out to buy it.

All gone now. How does this work today? Just wondering.

Signed,
Fred Flintstone