1935-1960s

1936

Don Law and his staff made arrangements for a field recording session held at the Gunter Hotel in San Antonio, Texas which included the first recordings of both Robert Johnson and The Chuck Wagon Gang.

1937

A new “makeshift studio” room, made from Beaver Board, was constructed to improve acoustics and sound isolation for recordings made at 508 Park.

A three week field recording session was conducted in June that included Robert Johnson, Bob Wills, Black Boy Shine, W. Lee “Pappy” O'Daniel, The Light Crust Doughboys and others.

1938

Two sets of field recordings were conducted at 508 Park.

The Brunswick Record Corporation office and warehouse moves from 508 Park, in part due to the leaking roof.

1939

Don Law returns to 508 Park for a final field recording session in the “makeshift studio” that included Gaytán Y Cantú, Hermanas Fraga, and early conjunto musician Lolo Cavazos.

ARC is purchased by CBS and is re-formed as the Columbia Recording Corporation.

1940s – 1950s

Warner Brothers leases (in 1939) the third floor to Decca Distributing Corporation who distributes records from the third floor for the next two decades. We believe that the “makeshift studio” room was possibly changed and eventually dismantled as Decca’s needs for offices and warehouse space changed.

Early 1960s

508 Park is sold by Warner Brothers to Glazer’s. Glazer's began in 1909 in Dallas, Texas, where Louis Glazer opened the Jumbo Bottling Company, which distributed flavored soda waters from the back of horse-drawn wagons. Today, Glazer's is one of the country's largest beverage distributors.

Glazer’s converts the building from offices and warehouse to a corporate headquarters. The film vaults are removed from the first floor of 508 Park.

PEPSI signage on the north side of 508 Park before restoration. Glazer’s owned the local Pepsi-Cola bottling operation for some time.