The store Front in El Segundo, located on Imperial Hwy. across from the airport, next door was Inflight Motion Pictures. That's Dick, Curtis and Mel standing in the doorway. Next Joe and Mel in our Manhattan Ave. building in Manhattan Beach.
In the El Segundo Store Wayne Stanke was using a portion of the store to develop a recording piano and Eubie Blake was nice enough to come around and do recordings for him. On one or more occasions he brought his wife with him.
Roger Morrison, a frequent visitor to the shop and a top notch reproducer technician, ended up working for The Nethercutt Collection. Keith Hardesty, who came by for a visit, was "THE" Steinway technician. And of course everyone wants to see the QRS music roll factory in Buffalo NY.
Clare Spencer who did occasional free lance work on player pianos. There's Dick and me in our Manhattan Ave. store. In the background you can see our parrot mascot "Dickie Bird". The parrot chewed up one of the pianos one day so we had to get rid of him.
Tedd Gwin another frequent visitor to the shop in Manhattan. Next is Hans Grassl he did all of the fancy cabinet work and then there's Joe Sacki a frequent visitor to our Redondo Beach Store.
Some pianos were more of a challenge than others.
Cory Keifer was a helping hand. Mike Bensusen was our piano tuner while going to school.
Gail worked for us mostly doing secretarial
work in our El Segundo store. Curtis stripping a piano. This
is Silvia (who had an Irish last name that I can't remember) was
working on her masters degree at UCLA and chose our piano shop as her subject,
so she hung around our shop taking pictures and interviewing us for the
whole semester.
Mike and Mike's dog, Bufus and Wayne Stanke our electronics expert.
From the left; Curtis Andrews, Iver
Becklund, John Patton, Vel Becklund, Mel Shores, Joe Feenstra, Claire Spencer,
and Mike Bensusen, early 1970's. Photo taken in the Manhattan Beach
store.
Manhattan
Beach store
Bill
Coffman
A regular visitor to the store always
on the look out for things for his theater.
Dick and Joe in the first photo, the second photo was taken about the same time about 1980. That's Mr Shultz Jr. of the Schultz Piano Co., they made player pianos in the 20's. Artesia Blvd. store, Redondo Beach
Luther Joy was our Gulbransen man. John Lockwood was our photographer.
Pat Carty
Mel Shores
Irv Seiler Margie Seiler (Youngblood) Bob Magenheimer Larry Norman
Now comes the big challange I've got a little list here of people that I need photos of. Some of the people I even need names as well as photos, these are people that were associated with the piano shop through the years and I would like to include them on this page. So help me out here, I need all the help I can get.
