Jorge, My dad was high

Eric Kraushar — Sat, 29 Sep 2007 09:38:24 -0500

Jorge,

My dad was high school friends with Pete Manski. Indeed, many guitarists when in town would pay visits to meet Manski. He had guitars all of the wall signed personally from his fans of his work.

Unfortunately, Manski died, I believe in 1999 or 2000, in a car accident and the little guitar store with a lot of cool history closed.

On a personal note, I used

Jorge Sosa — Fri, 28 Sep 2007 12:28:24 -0500

On a personal note, I used to live in St. Paul before I moved out to this area, about five years ago.

My wife, Beth, and I lived in an apartment near University and Fairview. A few blocks away was a guitar shop called Pete's Guitars. It was only open by appointment.

In 1998, Harrison paid a visit to Pete's Guitars. I think the story was, Harrison had long been a mail-order customer of Pete's. He had never been to the store, though, so he dropped in and later had a bite to eat at the Wendy's fast food restaurant next door.

This made the local paper — a celebrity sighting at Wendy's and an ex-Beatle, no less! I thought it was great that a guy who could afford to eat anywhere was cool with eating at Wendy's.

(Jorge Sosa is a staff writer for the Hutchinson Leader. He can be reached at sosa@hutchinsonleader.com)

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Jorge, My dad was high

On a personal note, I used