Chicago Music Exchange | 4 years ago
Johnny be good! Jonathan lights up our Lincoln Avenue showroom with this thunderous Gretsch Custom Shop Red Aniline Caddy Bo, the most recent arrival in our collaborative series of Gretsch Custom Shop Caddy Bos master built by Stephen Stern. Outfitted with a Brazilian rosewood fingerboard and ThroBak ESG-102B pickups, this rowdy red model has a hair-trigger, so be ready to shoot to thrill!
Gretsch was founded in 1883 by Friedrich Gretsch, a young German immigrant who opened his own musical instrument shop on 128 Middleton Street in Brooklyn, New York that year. His shop was designed for the manufacture of tambourines and drums. The operation moved to South 4th Street in 1894. In 1895, Gretsch died at the age of 39 and the company was taken over by his wife and fifteen-year-old son Fred.
Fred Gretsch expanded the business, adding Gretsch Building #1 at 109 South 5th Street in 1903, Gretsch Building #2 at 104-114 South 4th Street in 1910, and a new ten-story Gretsch Building #4 at 60 Broadway in 1916. The company ultimately owned or operated six properties in the immediate area, including a warehouse on Dunham Place. Gretsch Building #4 was owned by the Gretsch family until 1999. Guitar production by the Gretsch Company began in the early 1930s, and Gretsch guitars became highly sought after, most notably in the 1950s and 1960s.
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