Record Town -- Fort Worth TX
N 32° 42.377 W 097° 21.543
14S E 653805 N 3619916
The iconic artistic neon sign for Record Town has been drawing customers in to this store since the mid-1950s (at least).
Waymark Code: WMFXKW
Location: Texas, United States
Date Posted: 12/13/2012
Views: 4
I always enjoyed coming to Record Twon as a child in the late 1960s. Mom and I would usually stop in after picking up the dry-cleaning a few doors down. Of course, the dry-cleaner is long gone now, but this record store remains!
Mom loved opera. The Record Town folks would order the latest performances of her favorite sopranos for her. Then we'd have to check in frequently to see if the records had arrived yet. My job was to carry them to our home 2 blocks away on Wabash Street. I was too short to carry the dry-cleaning, but I'd have rathers carried the clothes. Mom's opera records came in 10-LP sets, heavy for a 4 year old to horse around!
Dad and I also came into Record Town while running errands, although Dad preferred to shoot the breeze with the owners while I looked at all the album art. Dad told me that he shopped at this store when he was a student at TCU in the mid-1950s, and brought Mom here once on one of their dates. (They married in 1961.)
I also remember the wonderful Record Town neon sign that still shines today from my childhood. Their neon sign was one of my favorite things to look at along University Drive.
No disrespect to Record Town, but the Covered-Wagon Burger neon horses that galloped a few blocks away on Berry Street was my #1 FAVORITE must-see kid landmark in those days. I'd howl if I missed it. If Mom was driving, she'd tell me to pay more attention to the world around me. If Dad was driving, he's turn around and park in the parking lot so I could get a good long look! (He'd also usually get us a couple of sodas, since we were already there anyway. "Don't tell your mother," he'd say. <-- one of many dad-daughter adventure secrets we shared. And I NEVER told my mother.)
Although we moved across town in 1968, I always remembered Record Town and the Covered Wagon Burger. Naturally, when I got a car as a teenager, I'd stop in for rock and roll records. By then, the Covered Wagon Burger was closed and the neon horses were gone.
Today (Dec 2012) Record Town is still open across from TCU, and its iconic neon sign still shines brightly, beckoning those who want an increasingly hard-to-find vinyl experience in this digital world.
Business Name: Record Town
Business Type: Retail
Physical Address:
3025 S University Dr
Fort Worth, TX
76109
Web Address: [Web Link]
Condition of Neon Sign: Fully Working Order: Best viewed at night in its full glory!
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