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May 20, 2003 I was thinking maybe I should add some of the old photos from the piano shop days. Not many pictures were taken in those days but I've got a few.
Here is some really early
stuff, taken in our first year of operation (1958) from left to right in
the first photo are: Wurlitzer the dog, Dick, Carol Frost, Claudia
Beaty with me in front of her and Ramsey Carter. The shop was on
an alley behind a house in Inglewood.
That's me in that first
shop in Inglewood. Dick and Pat in the earliest photo I could find.
This
one is a bit later.
Nothing lasts forever, this
is in the alley behind our first store, 1958. That's my MG just to the
left of the truck.
Some more early photos,
we're still in Inglewood but this is the third store, or mostly the third
store. There's Dave Hartman and John Patton, who both worked on the
nickelodeons, and Iver Becklund who did mostly custom work from manufacturing
missing parts to making entire nickelodeons.
Ray Becklund did a lot of
our outside service work, Vel Becklund did in-shop rebuilding. Dale
Woodward worked for us during the summer and part time, while going to
school.
Iver in an early Sept.1969
photo, and Dave taken about the same time.
John Patton in a grumpy
mood, (Mike tells me that John always looked this way) and Iver with Vel
in the background.
Dick an Iver Becklund
in an early photo, before Iver let his hair go long. The older gentleman
on the right is Frank Rudolph, he was employed in the early years (1920's)
by some of the top Player Piano Manufacturing Companies of the day like
Weber, Cunningham, and Lester.
Nancy
today
An early photo of Iver,
Larry Givens and Dick, I think this was taken in Larry Givens 's home in
Pennsylvania. Larry Givens wrote the book, "Rebuilding the Player
Piano" which became a very successful publication. And Nancy Jahn
our Inglewood secretary for many years.
Our first store that
wasn't behind somebodys house, this was out on a (wow) main street (LaBrea
Ave in Inglewood) 1959. Then we moved a block or two south on LaBrea
to this much larger store, where we stayed for several years. Most
of the photos above and on the next page were taken while we were at this
store.
Sept. 3, 2006
