The Record Parlour—Hollywood’s much-loved record shop that shifted tangible record shopping toward platforms like Instagram—is officially opening a Long Beach store. And it comes with a collection unlike any other.
Taking over the former, short-lived Goodies space in Belmont Shore—and giving old-school Fingerprints vibes when it was its OG location in the Shore before going to DTLB and now Bixby Knolls—Parlour owner Chris Honetschlaeger has scored what he describes as “the largest single vinyl collection we’ve ever seen under one roof.”
That collection? The Willie “Wax Hog” Hutchins Collection. And just when will locals be able to sift through this audiophile wonder? The Record Parlour in Long Beach will open on Friday, July 3rd at 11AM.
What to expect from The Record Parlour’s Long Beach store…
According to Chris, Willie “liked long desert highways, his coffee black and his rims polished. A trucker from a robust family pedigree of trucking.” The man eventually clocked some three million miles across his 40-plus year career—known across the trucking world under his CB handle, “Wax Hog”—and that included many stops at record stores, where he became known at shops for hauling away hundreds or even thousands of vinyl records in the back of his truck should it be empty…