Sundance Record Lagoon coming back to San Marcos this summer
The record shop is aiming for a June 1st opening
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SAN MARCOS – Wait did this song just skip? Nope! It’s official! Sundance Record Lagoon is coming back to San Marcos this summer.
The announcement of the store’s return to the unofficial mermaid capital of Texas was made on Monday by Tomas Escalante, owner of Sig’s Lagoon Record Shop in Houston.
The announcement lists 241 N LBJ Street as the address for the shop.
The record shop told KSAT they would be aiming for a June 1st opening.
Courtesy of Nancy Barnard
How many music posters can fit in a forty-by-sixty-foot barn in Hill Country?
It’s a problem that Nancy Barnard, the former co-owner of San Marcos’s Sundance Records, is struggling to solve. “Fifteen hundred [posters]? Two thousand? We were reaching hoarder levels of stuff, if I’m being honest,” she says. And posters are just one part of her massive collection, which includes thousands of items of music memorabilia.
Barnard owned the beloved record store until 2012 with her late husband, Bobby Barnard, who died last August after thirty years as a fixture in the local music scene. Now Nancy has tasked herself and a former employee, Parker Wright, with getting Bobby’s archive of music posters, records, vintage T-shirts, and other memorabilia online and, in news San Marcos music lovers were thrilled to learn, available for purchase. Barnard and Wright plan to launch the trove in batches on Instagram and at a series of in-person pop-up shops s
Records once dangled from the ceiling as music memorabilia lined the walls, while the smell of incense filled the room and melancholy tunes of blues drew customers in. Recognized as