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Re: Music Stores (Sherman Clay, Gospel, M-V, Hockett Cowan)

Posted: Thu Jan 10, 2019 3:27 pm
by Scott-o-rama
In the mid-'60s I was a budding adolescent guitar player and hung around Sherman Clay in Manchester Center quite a bit. I'd buy strings and picks there -- and play their cool electric guitars & amps as much as Mel, the manager, would tolerate. Wish I'd had the money to buy up some of the used Gibson Les Pauls and Pre-CBS Fender Strats & Teles they had for sale cheap. They sold records there too, and I bought my copy of The Beatles Sgt. Pepper album the first day they got it in -- in early June, 1967. I took that album home and played the grooves off of it, learning the chords and riffs from every song within about a week!

Re: Music Stores (Sherman Clay, Gospel, M-V, Hockett Cowan)

Posted: Sat Feb 02, 2019 12:46 pm
by Lost Fresno
Hockett Cowan sign on the Fulton Mall in 1969

Re: Music Stores (Sherman Clay, Gospel, M-V, Hockett Cowan)

Posted: Wed Oct 30, 2019 5:22 pm
by whitmaso
My grandmother, Linda Privett played in a band based in Ethel Starr's shop, called the Starrliters. The family is doing some research and we're just looking for anything from that era we can find, pictures, stories or if we're lucky maybe some recordings. Thanks for anyone who can help.

Re: Music Stores (Sherman Clay, Gospel, M & V, Hocket Cowan)

Posted: Mon Feb 08, 2021 3:32 pm
by GYM
Tom Takahashi was service manger at Gospel Music. Greg Youngman also worked in the service department. That's me!

Re: Music Stores (Sherman Clay, Gospel, M-V, Hockett Cowan)

Posted: Sat Apr 24, 2021 3:49 pm
by DougR
Starting from about 1956: my trap set, my mom’s alto sax and her autoharp came from M-V Music; my classical guitar came from Hockett Cowan; my dreadnaught guitar came from a music store at the SE corner of Fresno/Ashlan (across the street from where American Music Company is now -- anyone remember its name around 1963?).

Re: Music Stores (Sherman Clay, Gospel, M-V, Hockett Cowan)

Posted: Fri Feb 18, 2022 1:41 am
by charlyn
Kuettel Piano House on the corner of Olive Ave & Arthur St. (2 blks east of Fruit Ave)

Re: Music Stores (Sherman Clay, Gospel, M-V, Hockett Cowan)

Posted: Wed May 25, 2022 9:36 pm
by Fred Rated
Charlie Daniels Music somewhere off of Blackstone. Took woodwind lessons there and they'd let me bang on all the synths I could never afford while I waited.