Dec 31, 2020
MANKATO (AP) If it wasn’t for an MTV contest nearly 30 years ago, Tune Town in Mankato may never have come to fruition.
Owner Carl Nordmeier had been working in the music department at the Lake Street Target in Minneapolis in the early ’90s when an option to transfer to Mankato was on the table. But when he moved into an apartment near Minnesota State University, that job fell through. Nordmeier’s other source of revenue, as a weekend DJ, wasn’t enough to cover the bills.
Frustrated with the corporate nature of Target’s music department, he had already started to consider opening his own music store when he was still living in the Twin Cities. But it wasn’t until he entered an MTV-sponsored contest to win a record store that the plan really started to take hold.