bookmark_borderGhosts of DFW music history: Silver Dollar Rock Shop

This is part of a continuing series of posts exploring locations of former DFW musical landmarks

flyer for Deadly Force at the Silver Dollar Rock Shop
1989 show flyer
The Silver Dollar... it sounds like some sort of cowboy watering hole, a place you might expect to see country and western acts and not a series of metal bands. Yet here I was with an old Deadly Force show flyer in my hands promoting moshing and urging support for the DFW metal underground of the 1980s, and the show was taking place at the Silver Dollar Rock Shop. What kind of place was this? Where was it located, and when did it disappear into the ether?

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