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"Condo Joe" Bryson, who started Austin's legendary Inner Sanctum Records, threw a party at 501 Studios, Austin, TX on the afternoon of Sunday, August 15, 2010.

In 1970, college student and entrepreneur Joe Bryson bought Phil's Record Store, which sat in a shotgun location at W. 24th and Rio Grande Streets, and re-christened it Inner Sanctum Records, named after the 1940s radio show. The store would soon relocate to a large, old house at 504 W. 24th Street, just off "The Drag" (Guadalupe St.), near the University of Texas at Austin.

Bryson relied on fellow music aficionados to keep the business running. James "Cowboy" Cooper, Gary Barnes, "Big Al" Ragle, Richard Dorsett, Rick Moore, Kirby McDaniel and Linda Nozik all worked at the store.