It was a store of many parts:[3] It sold records, sheet music, an assortment of instruments, radios, televisions, electronic appliances, phonographs, and, at one point in time, even sporting goods.
Aside from household appliances, the store carried a wide array of instruments and records in Latin jazz, classical rock, Cuban mambo, and Yiddish swing.
[7] The performances included bands like Little Willie G., Ollin, Ruben Guevera, Eastside Luvers, Hiroshima, La Santa Cecilia, and Ceci Bastida, demonstrating the multicultural permeable the Phillips Music Store created.
[7] The Phillips Music Company was located in Boyle Heights, Los Angeles, an area known for its diversity, including Jews, Latinos, (mainly Chicanos), Yugoslav (Serbian and Croatian) immigrants, Portuguese people, and Japanese Americans living in the neighborhood from 1920 through the 1960s.
[10] This sound of multiculturalism the Phillips Music Company fostered continues to exist despite the store's closure.