To enter the Old Time String Shop is to step back into the past. The shop, which features a vintage Coca-Cola advertising mural on an exterior wall, stocks an incredible variety of musical instruments, strings and other instrument supplies, music books and CDs, and reproductions of old-timey toys and Christmas decorations. Be sure to meet the colorful owner--he’s the fellow wearing denim overalls. On Saturdays, banjo players, guitar players, and fiddlers gather on the front porch and entertain themselves--and passers-by--for hours.
Hours: Tuesday - Saturday, 10:00-5:00
Old Time String Shop & General Mercantile
216 East Pilar Street
Nacogdoches, TX 75961
Phone: (936) 564-8692
The town of Edom--in Van Zandt County just a few miles west of the city Tyler--is miniscule. Though Edom was founded in 1849, its population has never topped 300. But size isn’t everything. Beginning in the 1960s, artisans attracted to the hamlet’s comfortably rustic ways and laid-back atmosphere began settling here. Now, Edom’s main drag--a stretch of FM 279--is loaded with shops purveying one-of-a-kind wares by local potters, jewelry makers, glassmakers, and more. Why, there’s even a gourmet food shop. And every October, Edom welcomes scores of artists and craftspeople from all over Texas and beyond to the Edom Festival of the Arts.
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