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.
Settling on a 15-mile ranch outside of Palm Springs in the early 2000s, Chris and the Parlour team caught wind of this incredible record collection.
“It was by pure luck that his brother-in-law made the intro via a mutual friend who worked on the juke boxes that Willie owned,” Chris wrote on social media. “His juke was an early 1952C Seeburg, the ‘Happy Days’ model used in the iconic 1970s TV show…
But the Wax Hog didn’t just buy random shit. He bought a focused variety of records. Literally a record store’s worth of genre gems.”
Millions of miles. Thousands of records. And now, the ability to honor the man that was clearly obsessed with the human creation of music.
Why The Record Parlour opening a Long Beach store is important culturally and consumer-wise.
The Record Parlour is one of those rare Los Angeles institutions that understood, early, that vinyl’s survival would depend not on resisting modernity but on folding it into the ritual of analog culture.
Founded in late 2013 by Chris with Chadwick Hemus, the shop opened just off Cahuenga at a moment when vinyl’s comeback was beginning to feel less nostalgic and more structural: younger buyers were discovering records for the first time, older collectors were returning, and Hollywood still had enough cultural gravity to support a place that treated records not merely as merchandise but as atmosphere.
From the beginning, the concept was broader than a standard record shop. The store called itself an “emporium of 20th-century entertainment,” combining roughly 15,000 records with restored turntables. Amplifiers. Speakers. Jukebox rentals. Live performances. Repair services…
What made The Record Parlour distinct was that, by the mid-2010s, smartphones had already changed collecting behavior: discovery happened digitally, while commitment still happened physically. Rather than treat social media as mere promotion, the shop used it as an active sales channel. In 2015, the store posted a batch of Frank Zappa records and ended up selling twenty of them to a single buyer through Instagram messaging. It was a small but telling illustration of how the business bridged two eras: the tactile authority of crate-digging with the speed of direct digital commerce.
The Record Parlour’s Long Beach location will be located at 5308 E. 2nd St. inside Unit B and will open Friday, July 3.
