A case of record store nostalgia

After lamenting the close of CD World last night, someone sent me a link to this thoughtful trip down memory lane — it's about old record stores, department stores and other haunts, and interwoven with bits of Dallas and music history. Good comments too. It's a fun read.   

Comments

[David McQuaid]

Great article on the old record shops. I can remember going down to Metamorphosis, which I THINK was on or around McKinney Avenue back in the late 70's. That place was so cool! All kinds of great records, new and old...mostly old as I remember, and cool buttons of bands, like that new band The Police.

[Norman Alston]

In our neighborhood, there was the Hi-Fi Shop at the southwest corner of Mockingbird and Abrams, where the laundromat is now. I lived in Garland, but my parents would bring us all in. It was a family field trip.

The shop was owned by a couple who were about my parents age. There were bins and bins of records just inside the door. There was a section of 45's and two open booths with players where we children could listen to the 45's before we bought. For the adults, there was a soundproof room in the back with much nicer stereo equipment. The man would take my Dad back there and play new albums (Bachrach, Mancini, Jobim, Dione Warwick and the like)that he thought Dad would like. We were regulars, so he know what Mom and Dad listened to. It was all such an event.

It closed while I was away at college, but I rarely pass by that way without thinking of the Hi-Fi Shop.

[Jeff Siegel]

My home phone number is the same as the late Melody Shop, which was in NorthPark and then at Northwest Highway and Abrams. I still get a couple of calls a year for the store.