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In our June issue, we asked you, our readers, to answer a simple question: Where is it? We included photos of autographs and handprints permanently captured in cement at a mystery location. Soon after our story hit newsstands and our website, reader Patrick Fox responded with the correct answer: “Located at the former Peaches record store near 51st and Sheridan, west of The Farm.”
According to www.losttulsa.com, in 1976 a new store owned by the Peaches record store chain emerged at 5150 S. Sheridan Road. The inventory was immense and the prices were low. The store included a large number of high-volume album and tape sales and also offered the popular Peaches crates. However, as more chain music stores opened in the area, Peaches and other locally owned stores like it began to close their doors. The site, www.losttulsa.com, notes that Peaches’ decision not to embrace CDs also led to its demise, and it closed in the mid-1980s.
Peaches later reopened as another chain music store, Buttons, which eventually closed as well. It also had a life as a Blockbuster store before its current incarnation, BCBC Modern, a furniture store.
Before it closed, Peaches had a tradition of asking musicians to sign and press their handprints into large concrete squares located along the sidewalks outside the building. Surprisingly, through several storeowners, these square have remained and many of them are still readable.
Do you have a hidden location in Tulsa that readers may not know about? Let us know by e-mailing contactus@tulsapeople.com.
