Cactus Music

Category: Record store
Also printed as: Cactus, Cactus Music & Video
Ads held: 2 · 2005.08 to 2009.01 (appearances in held issues, not opening or closing dates)
Status: Official site active (checked). The business's official website, viewed on the check date, lists the 2110 Portsmouth store. This is a website observation, not a visit. Checked 2026-10-07.

Ads in Free Press Houston

2930 S. Shepherd Houston, TX 77098 · (713) 528-9272 · www.cactusmusicandvideo.com
Free Press Houston, August 2005, first edition, issue 48 · PDF page 40 (printed folio not recorded) · Open PDF at page
2110 Portsmouth · 713-526-9272 · cactusmusictx.com
Free Press Houston, January 2009, issue 99 · PDF page 7 (printed folio 7) · Open PDF at page

Addresses, phone numbers and web addresses as printed at the time. They are not checked as current.

The official site says Bud and Don Daily opened Cactus in 1975, and that Record Ranch operates inside Cactus as a vinyl-only store and gallery. Cactus Music, “About Cactus Music & Record Ranch”
In November 2007, the Chronicle interviewed managing partner Quinn Bishop as a new Cactus Music storefront at 2110 Portsmouth prepared to open. It described the earlier Cactus Music & Video as having closed about a year and a half before. Houston Chronicle, “Dead rock icons have their day at revived Cactus”, 2007-11-02

Dates are ad appearances in held issues, not openings, closings or continuous occupancy.