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Rondo closed the doors a few years ago, internet business took over.muchxs wrote:I'm literally right up the street from Rondo Music.
They used to be on Route 22 in Hillside, New Jersey. That stretch of 22 was up the road from Newark. It's a divided highway with short driveways to various businesses. No merges, just gas it and pray! Certain stretches of it see 65 mph +, the traffic patterns are pretty murderous. I'd be moving right along, I'd come around the corner and there was Rondo. If you missed it you'd have to drive up the the cloverleaf up the road, then drive most of the way back to Newark, get turned around and make a note to be in the right lane when you came around that corner.
That place started life in the 40's as a nightclub. My sax teacher Lou Grassie played there for years. Many of the big bands came to play there. They'd often travel with just key players and hire the rest locally. Lou played with Jimmy Dorsey, Glen Miller, etc all through the 40's when sight reading was not a lost art.One of America's great White Elephants used to be right up the road. Is the Flagship still there? It was a store built in the shape of a ship in the median.
I think so Tom. If there's a finish at all it is extremely thin.Structo wrote:Yeah, I bought a SX tele knockoff for a spare to have on stage in case I broke a string on my strat.
I think I paid $110 for it. Butterscotch blond.
I've thought about refinishing it but.......nah, good bang for the buck.
That lap steel looks cool!
Was the mahogany unfinished?
