THE IDLE AMERICAN: Tool Pusher/Tooth Puller

It’s no longer likely that many sons and daughters will enter their parents’ professions.

There are exceptions, of course. Seventy-six-year-old Harold Barton is one, son of the late Sonny Barton, who opened his downtown Fort Worth business in 1949, then re-located Barton’s Garage in 1963 to its current location.

It could hardly be more obscure–1615 West Jefferson–but the shop backs up to the more-visible dental practice of Dr. Marshall Brown, who has been serving patients at 1818 Eighth Ave. since 2000. Their back doors are so close, they could almost share hinges……

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