Online shopping and big-time music chains crank out the latest CD's for the public's consumption. Garden Owner Matt Schantzen's question once he arrived in town in 1992. At that time only Pawnshops dealt with used music, oftentimes in a disorganized and jumbled manner. Shantzen answered his own query by opening the Beat Garden in 1996. Currently, the Beat Garden is in the process of moving to a new location, next door to the Marlin, near the University on College Road.
Customers can expect more room, more listening stations and the ability to search online.
The Beat Garden will open the doors to its new location by mid-September, and marks the growing success of another locally owned business. While most airlines carried more passengers this summer, traffic for Seattle-based Alaska Airlines was down in July and August about 1 percent. A spokesman for Alaska Airlines says its decline is due to planes that were taken out of service for inspections. The airline has been under increased scrutiny because of a crash in January near Los Angeles that killed 88 people. Five of those passengers were from Alaska.