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[D Sawyer (Dan)]

Good stuff, Flick. Thanks for posting this. It's something else to see the human side of things

[C Greenwell (mraajr)]

Nice! Thanks alot!

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[I Stoddard (Low-B 5-String)]

Thanks very much for the Kalamazoo Gazette shorts. THe old factory background is very pleasant to catch up on.

Please post more (links, too) if there are any around.

[r wood (ron)]

Thanks for vids Flick!

There are still previous employees living in Kalamazoo. I've had the privilege of talking to a few of them.

If anyone wants to know about what it was like to work at Gibson in the classic years, I highly suggest you read the book:

"Gibson Guitars: Ted McCarty's Golden Era: 1948-1966" by Gil Hembre.

And if you can find it: "The Gibson Story" by Julius Bellson.

[D Garden (Davie Bluesman)]

If you liked this thread, look at Gibson Tours online and on youtube.

[m dailey (milod)]

Silly as this sounds... I guess I'm at the point where I'm proud I remember being brought up and living in a pre-OSHA age myself.

Another thing I noticed... a feeling from the old timers, that if work needed to get done, you did it. Reminded me of supposedly being a newspaper wire editor and if the teletype went down ... well, somebody hadda fix it and on a Sunday, I may as well do it myself.

Another one... cruddy amp sounds. Eight-inch radio speakers overdriven. <grin> The kinda music my Dad said the "hillbillies" sang in WWII Army camps... He never entirely understood, I don't think, why I liked frailing Jesse James on a banjo or flatpicking it on a flattop.

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[S Sill (Scott Sill)]

Those are very enjoyable videos. I wonder if there are more to see.

Scott