The Wreck Bar vs. Record Bar

["Jeffrey Lemlich" <limeston@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Colorcoat wrote:  <<I was recently listening to a reelradio.com WQAM Miami
aircheck from
1966, when an ad for the Wrecker Bar really caught my attention.  I
remember finding and wearing a Styrofoam Wrecker Bar hat at my grandma's
house when I was a little kid. I always thought it was a "bar" bar.
Anyone (Lemlich?) have any additional info and/or stories about this
Coral Gables record store?>>

Easy to get confused, grasshopper!   There was:

(A) RECORD BAR, on Miracle Mile in Coral Gables, which is what the ad was
for.  It was a record store that had a huge "teen" album selection, which a
lot of stores didn't have in '66.  I remember being in there as a small kid,
eyeing the Manfred Mann "Pretty Flamingo" album which I really wanted, just
because I liked the cover.  Record Bar went out of business by the early 70s
and became SOUNDS OF MUSIC record store, which kept getting worse into the
70s.  I seem to recall it also being known as KING COLE MUSIC for a short
time.  It's now a GNC nutrition store.

(B)  THE WRECK BAR, in the Castaways Hotel, on Sunny Isles (North side of
Miami Beach).  Not on this air check, but ads for it appear on WQAM air
checks recorded on 29 July 1966.  This is probably where the hat is from.  I
have an original "shaker" from the Wreck Bar that I traded for a while back.
Wayne Cochran & His CC Riders, Benny Latimore & The Kinfolk, and an endless
variety of soulful acts played at this venue.  On the WQAM ads the headliner
was the great Miami girl group THE MARVELLS, who by that time were known
nationally (but not locally) as THE FABULETTES.  Annette Snell was one of
their featured vocalists.  Also on that bill was The Peridots who are
Bomp-worthy by virtue of having recorded a song called "It's The Bomp"!

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Lemlich

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