Wallichs Music City

Wallichs Music City, the world’s largest specialty record store at the time, operated here on the corner of Sunset and Vine Street from 1940 to 1978. It was the first music store to seal records in cellophane and put them in display racks for customers and the first to have demonstration rooms for listening. Music fans flocked here to have artists like Judy Garland and Johnny Mercer autograph the sheet music of their latest hits. Owner Glenn Wallichs started Capitol Records from a second-story office in the building. After Capitol Records moved to the Capitol Tower in 1956, Dot Records shared the building with the music store.