Burglars or vandals smashed windows and glass doors at multiple businesses along the 300 block of W. Jefferson Wednesday morning.
Police were on the scene at about 9 a.m. “They got a bunch of them,” one of them says.
Top Ten Records, Atomic Home Supply, CBD American Shaman and Liberty Shoes were among the visibly affected.
Top Ten, which in addition to being Dallas’ oldest record store also is a musical archive and nonprofit, only suffered damage to the front door. Top Ten store manager Leslie Vanravenswaay says it seems a/some hoodlum/s (my word, not hers) threw rocks through five or six different buildings.
“That’s what it looked like—rock through the window and they didn’t take anything, and we got lucky” she says. “Because they did take some stuff from some other businesses.”
She says the neighborhood’s postman talked to a few of the shop owners and reported that some lost more than others. Neighbors and the postman reported that Liberty was hit harder. “They said they got hit real bad; they broke in and start stealing a bunch of stuff from there,” Vanravenswaay says.
In a post on Instagram, Atomic Home reports a smashed front door but no missing merchandise. Atomic also posted a surveillance video clip that shows a black-clad figure running through the store.
We will follow the story and report any developments.
