Comments on: Inventions of the 50s http://tucsoncitizen.com/retroflections/2010/04/13/inventions-of-the-50s/ Go down memory lane with Retroflections Thu, 25 Apr 2013 05:55:00 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.5.1 By: Ferraribubba http://tucsoncitizen.com/retroflections/2010/04/13/inventions-of-the-50s/#comment-2731 Ferraribubba Tue, 13 Apr 2010 16:32:07 +0000 http://tucsoncitizen.com/retroflections/?p=351#comment-2731 Leo Fender was a neighbor of ours in Fullerton, CA. when I was growing up. He was born in the same hospoital that I was. He was years ahead of me at Fullerton High School and his factory was on the same street as my mom’s printing business was located on Raymond St. 
I remember in 1958, Leo was having cash flow problems, and owed my mom $375 dollors for some printing. He offered her a new StratoCaster guitar instead of the cash . . . but she needed the cash too, and turned Leo down. OUCH!
I think that in the early 1960′s he sold to CBS for $12 Million Dollars, and quality went right into the dumpster.
Yer pal, Ferrari Bubba

]]> By: Kathryn Blohm http://tucsoncitizen.com/retroflections/2010/04/13/inventions-of-the-50s/#comment-2730 Kathryn Blohm Tue, 13 Apr 2010 16:15:04 +0000 http://tucsoncitizen.com/retroflections/?p=351#comment-2730 Did you know Betty Nesmith Graham’s son is Mike Nesmith of the Monkees. He already had money when he started!!!! 

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