The Idle American

Tool Pusher/Tooth Puller...

It’s no longer likely that many sons and daughters will enter their parents’ professions.

There are exceptions, of course. Seventy-six-yearold Harold Barton is one, son of the late Sonny Barton, who opened his downtown Fort Worth business in 1949, then re-located Barton’s Garage in 1963 to its current location.

It could hardly be more obscure—1615 West Jefferson— but the shop backs up to the more-vi…