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It’s a Model 1412 solid body electric guitar made in Japan by Teisco in mid- to late 1970 or early 1971 and imported to the U.S. for sale at Sears Roebuck & Co. It has two single-coil pickups with separate switches, a sweep design headstock with a ‘Space Dot’ logo and a hinge-and-spring whammy bar. I found it Saturday at Acme House of Music, a small shop a few blocks east of 35th Avenue on MacArthur Boulevard in Oakland’s Laurel District. The shop owner said he thought it had spent a couple of years hanging around in-store since arriving via eBay. Its last human’s name may have been Carl Reynolds, as that’s what’s scratched into the pick guard in cursive. Its current human’s name is George. – View on Path.
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Apparently the Seattle Times was just bandwagoning its way to profit on the heels of Scripps’ edgy example. Never trust the Emerald City! It’s like deja Grungespeak all over again!
Cup of ambition: poured – View on Path.
Hot art on a cool night on Flickr.
2300 block Telegraph Ave.: bloco rockin’ beats (Taken with Cinemagram)
Partial @CCTimes newsroom TV-ectomy (Taken with Cinemagram)
Down come the televisions @CCTimes (Taken with Cinemagram)
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Lloyd Freitas grew up in an apartment above the East Oakland veterinary office, called The California Dog and Cat Hospital, where he has worked for the last fifty years. His father was a vet, too, and a poster board in the office lobby is lined with pictures of a young Lloyd standing at his…
