Presto
Issue: 1924 2002 - Page 9
December 6, 1924.
NEW BUILDING FOR
LOS ANGELES FIRM
Music Section in the Twelve-Story Structure
Planned by Barker Bros, to Be Con-
siderably Expanded.
A new building is planned by Barker Bros., Los
Angeles, the big furniture house with a music de-
partment. The new structure will extend for a block
and cover 500,000 square feet and be twelve stories
high and, according to the company, will be the larg-
est building in the world devoted to house furnish-
ings and music. It will be completed by January,
1926.
The space to be given to the music department
has already been assigned. This location will extend
112 feet on South Flower street and 105 feet on
Figueroa street and floor space of similar dimensions
will be occupied on the second floor.
The expansion of the music section in the big store
will make it a place of great attraction for the buyers
of all kinds of music goods. John A. Boothe, man-
ager of the department, has very ambitious plans
for the future there. The equipment will provide
every means to pleasureable buying and economy of
time and labor in selling. The music section in the
new building will be modern in every sense of the
word.
The ground floor will be given over to talking ma-
chines, small goods, radio, rolls, records and sheet
music. Adjoining main wareroom there will be a
large number of demonstration rooms suitable to a
proper showing of talking machines and musical
merchandise.
But the piano department on the second floor will
be the point of greatest attraction for the visitors to
the Barker Bros, store. In addition to the principal
wareroom there will be demonstrating rooms, but
another feature in the presentation of the pianos,
players and reproducing pianos will demand the at-
tention of the public. Mr. Boothe's scheme is to
have a series of living rooms and music rooms so
built and furnished as to provide the correct sur-
roundings for the fine pianos, especially those of
the Period types.
Barker Bros, has grown in the same amazing way
that the city of Los Angeles has, and is an example
of progressiveness in itself. When it was started
forty-four years ago in a small store, Los Angeles
had a population of 11,000.
CUT IN FREIGHT RATES
PREDICTED BY OFFICIAL
PRESTO
terest charges will be so great they will have nothing
left for dividends,
"The future of successful rail regulation, if that is
ever accomplished, lies in treating the subject on the
economic value of transportation and the elimination
of political influence. The hope of the railroads in
future lies not in charity toward them, but justice Marshall Music Co. of White River Junction,
to them, not legislative favors, but fair treatment -by
Vermont, Delivers Boston Instrument to
the people and their representatives."
CARTER COUNTRY CLUB
SELECTS POOLE PIANO
Favorite Golf Club.
HEAD OF CABLE-NELSON CO.
VISITS WESTERN TRADE
California Cities and Other Points Visited by Presi-
dent John Parnham.
The Cable-Nelson Piano Co.'s line is being ex-
ploited by many aggressive western dealers in this
great season of sales and this condition, also no'.ice-
able in other parts of the country, has resulted in the
longer working schedule in effect at the Cable-Nelson
factory at South Haven, Mich.
John Parnham, president of the company, is also
e!ated over the progressive showing of western deal-
ers and is now visiting the trade in that part of the
country. The first point touched in California was
Los Angeles, where Mr. Parnham stopped several
days to'bask in the Southern California sunshine
after which he proceeded to San Francisco, visiting
Cable-Nelson dealers and other friends in the trade.
Mr. Parnham will be back in Chicago next week
after a brief stop-ovor in Denver, Colo.
There are many golf enthusiasts in the piano trade,
and it is but natural that the many country clubs
which have come into
existence throughout the
United States are of ; nterest to the "golfist" in par-
ticular. Not alone io the followers of this most
popular sport, however, are such clubs an attraction.
Can one conceive of a man, woman, or child who
wojld not find pleasure in tramping over the beau-
ARTIST TELEGRAPHS HIS
APPROVAL OF BALDWIN
Vladimir De Pachmann, on Concert Tour, Expresses
Great Satisfaction with Grand.
The extent of the appreciation for the Baldwin
piano is told in the number of great artists using
it as well as the manner in which they express their
opinions about the instrument. The views of the
great operatic stars about the Baldwin piano have
been published and are well known by music lovers.
This week brought a telegram of appreciation to the
Baldwin Piano Co. from the great Russian pianist,
Vladimir De Pachmann, who is now on a concert
tour through the United States. The telegram, dated
Akron, O., is as follows:
"Geo. W. Armstrong, President Baldwin Piano
Co., 142 West Fourth street, Cincinnati, Ohio. Piano
wonderful, delighted with it. I congratulate you and
those who made such a perfect instrument. V. De
Pachmann."
PIANO MAN BROADCASTS.
Talking to Chicago Association of Commerce, Presi-
dent Finley States Views.
Reduction of freight rates, President William H.
Finley of the Chicago & Northwestern Railway last
week told the Chicago Association of Commerce,
will come in a comparatively short time if railroads
are given a chance at prosperity. President Finley,
speaking before the weekly luncheon, said:
"If the railroads participate in the general pros-
perity and are permitted the same latitude allowed
other industries, I believe that in a comparatively
short time they could reduce freight rates accordingly.
Railroads cannot continue to pile up their bonded
indebtedness without reaching a time when their in-
""
William D. Fentou, manager of the Sieberling,
Lucas Music Co , Portland, Ore., gave a piano recital
recently that was broadcasted by radio station KGW.
This is the station of the Daily Oregonian, which
commented as follows: "Few programs have elicited
such a steady flow of telephone calls as did Mr. Fen-
ton's and it was again demonstrated that radio lis-
teners like piano music well played, and they like it
often and in good measure."
BUSH & LANE IN DETROIT.
The Bush & Lane Piano Company, Detroit, Mich.,
formerly in the American Theater building, moved
November 30 to the new store located at 234 Huron
CLUB WHERE POOLE ADDS TO JOY.
tiful fields on which the golf course in laid out, or
sitting on the piazza of the club house and giving
themselves over to the beauties of nature which sur-
round them on all sides?
The Carter Country Club, of Lebanon, N. H<,
located on a beautiful plateau about a mile from the
center of the town, and approximately three miles
from White River Junction, Vermont, on the state
highway to the White Mountains, is one of the newer
clubs, having come into existence only about one
year ago, but already enjoying a membership of
nearly two hundred.
The club house is located on a bluff overlooking
the Mascoma river and state road. It includes a
living room, 40 by 28 feet, with large fireplace, and
French doors opening onto spacious piazzas; dining
room adjoining the living room; kitchen directly
under the dining room, and lockers and shower baths
in the basement.
In these days of the. 18th amendment, and strict
enforcement of prohibition, the Carter Country Club
had foreseen the particular wants of the club mem-
bers, and the supply of nature's own comes direct
to the club house from two fine springs located on
the club grounds. The club also maintain their own
reservoir piped to every green on the golf course.
Nothing has been overlooked in furnishing the
chib house to make it most attractive to members and
visiting friends. The latest addition is a beautiful
Poole piano, selected at the warerooms of the
Marshall Music Co., White River Junction, Vermont,
who for many years have been enthusiastic Poole
representatives.
INDISPENSABLE TO PIANO DEALERS AND SALESMEN
We are now making shipments of our latest model, which is fcoolprbof and indestructible.
Price reduced to $95.00 including extra good moving cover.
A
:
Shipped to responsible dealers on approval.
.
Try one. If you don't like it send it back.
:
BOWEN PIANO LOADER CO.,
Winston-Salem, N. C.
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NEW BUILDING FOR
LOS ANGELES FIRM
Music Section in the Twelve-Story Structure
Planned by Barker Bros, to Be Con-
siderably Expanded.
A new building is planned by Barker Bros., Los
Angeles, the big furniture house with a music de-
partment. The new structure will extend for a block
and cover 500,000 square feet and be twelve stories
high and, according to the company, will be the larg-
est building in the world devoted to house furnish-
ings and music. It will be completed by January,
1926.
The space to be given to the music department
has already been assigned. This location will extend
112 feet on South Flower street and 105 feet on
Figueroa street and floor space of similar dimensions
will be occupied on the second floor.
The expansion of the music section in the big store
will make it a place of great attraction for the buyers
of all kinds of music goods. John A. Boothe, man-
ager of the department, has very ambitious plans
for the future there. The equipment will provide
every means to pleasureable buying and economy of
time and labor in selling. The music section in the
new building will be modern in every sense of the
word.
The ground floor will be given over to talking ma-
chines, small goods, radio, rolls, records and sheet
music. Adjoining main wareroom there will be a
large number of demonstration rooms suitable to a
proper showing of talking machines and musical
merchandise.
But the piano department on the second floor will
be the point of greatest attraction for the visitors to
the Barker Bros, store. In addition to the principal
wareroom there will be demonstrating rooms, but
another feature in the presentation of the pianos,
players and reproducing pianos will demand the at-
tention of the public. Mr. Boothe's scheme is to
have a series of living rooms and music rooms so
built and furnished as to provide the correct sur-
roundings for the fine pianos, especially those of
the Period types.
Barker Bros, has grown in the same amazing way
that the city of Los Angeles has, and is an example
of progressiveness in itself. When it was started
forty-four years ago in a small store, Los Angeles
had a population of 11,000.
CUT IN FREIGHT RATES
PREDICTED BY OFFICIAL
PRESTO
terest charges will be so great they will have nothing
left for dividends,
"The future of successful rail regulation, if that is
ever accomplished, lies in treating the subject on the
economic value of transportation and the elimination
of political influence. The hope of the railroads in
future lies not in charity toward them, but justice Marshall Music Co. of White River Junction,
to them, not legislative favors, but fair treatment -by
Vermont, Delivers Boston Instrument to
the people and their representatives."
CARTER COUNTRY CLUB
SELECTS POOLE PIANO
Favorite Golf Club.
HEAD OF CABLE-NELSON CO.
VISITS WESTERN TRADE
California Cities and Other Points Visited by Presi-
dent John Parnham.
The Cable-Nelson Piano Co.'s line is being ex-
ploited by many aggressive western dealers in this
great season of sales and this condition, also no'.ice-
able in other parts of the country, has resulted in the
longer working schedule in effect at the Cable-Nelson
factory at South Haven, Mich.
John Parnham, president of the company, is also
e!ated over the progressive showing of western deal-
ers and is now visiting the trade in that part of the
country. The first point touched in California was
Los Angeles, where Mr. Parnham stopped several
days to'bask in the Southern California sunshine
after which he proceeded to San Francisco, visiting
Cable-Nelson dealers and other friends in the trade.
Mr. Parnham will be back in Chicago next week
after a brief stop-ovor in Denver, Colo.
There are many golf enthusiasts in the piano trade,
and it is but natural that the many country clubs
which have come into
existence throughout the
United States are of ; nterest to the "golfist" in par-
ticular. Not alone io the followers of this most
popular sport, however, are such clubs an attraction.
Can one conceive of a man, woman, or child who
wojld not find pleasure in tramping over the beau-
ARTIST TELEGRAPHS HIS
APPROVAL OF BALDWIN
Vladimir De Pachmann, on Concert Tour, Expresses
Great Satisfaction with Grand.
The extent of the appreciation for the Baldwin
piano is told in the number of great artists using
it as well as the manner in which they express their
opinions about the instrument. The views of the
great operatic stars about the Baldwin piano have
been published and are well known by music lovers.
This week brought a telegram of appreciation to the
Baldwin Piano Co. from the great Russian pianist,
Vladimir De Pachmann, who is now on a concert
tour through the United States. The telegram, dated
Akron, O., is as follows:
"Geo. W. Armstrong, President Baldwin Piano
Co., 142 West Fourth street, Cincinnati, Ohio. Piano
wonderful, delighted with it. I congratulate you and
those who made such a perfect instrument. V. De
Pachmann."
PIANO MAN BROADCASTS.
Talking to Chicago Association of Commerce, Presi-
dent Finley States Views.
Reduction of freight rates, President William H.
Finley of the Chicago & Northwestern Railway last
week told the Chicago Association of Commerce,
will come in a comparatively short time if railroads
are given a chance at prosperity. President Finley,
speaking before the weekly luncheon, said:
"If the railroads participate in the general pros-
perity and are permitted the same latitude allowed
other industries, I believe that in a comparatively
short time they could reduce freight rates accordingly.
Railroads cannot continue to pile up their bonded
indebtedness without reaching a time when their in-
""
William D. Fentou, manager of the Sieberling,
Lucas Music Co , Portland, Ore., gave a piano recital
recently that was broadcasted by radio station KGW.
This is the station of the Daily Oregonian, which
commented as follows: "Few programs have elicited
such a steady flow of telephone calls as did Mr. Fen-
ton's and it was again demonstrated that radio lis-
teners like piano music well played, and they like it
often and in good measure."
BUSH & LANE IN DETROIT.
The Bush & Lane Piano Company, Detroit, Mich.,
formerly in the American Theater building, moved
November 30 to the new store located at 234 Huron
CLUB WHERE POOLE ADDS TO JOY.
tiful fields on which the golf course in laid out, or
sitting on the piazza of the club house and giving
themselves over to the beauties of nature which sur-
round them on all sides?
The Carter Country Club, of Lebanon, N. H<,
located on a beautiful plateau about a mile from the
center of the town, and approximately three miles
from White River Junction, Vermont, on the state
highway to the White Mountains, is one of the newer
clubs, having come into existence only about one
year ago, but already enjoying a membership of
nearly two hundred.
The club house is located on a bluff overlooking
the Mascoma river and state road. It includes a
living room, 40 by 28 feet, with large fireplace, and
French doors opening onto spacious piazzas; dining
room adjoining the living room; kitchen directly
under the dining room, and lockers and shower baths
in the basement.
In these days of the. 18th amendment, and strict
enforcement of prohibition, the Carter Country Club
had foreseen the particular wants of the club mem-
bers, and the supply of nature's own comes direct
to the club house from two fine springs located on
the club grounds. The club also maintain their own
reservoir piped to every green on the golf course.
Nothing has been overlooked in furnishing the
chib house to make it most attractive to members and
visiting friends. The latest addition is a beautiful
Poole piano, selected at the warerooms of the
Marshall Music Co., White River Junction, Vermont,
who for many years have been enthusiastic Poole
representatives.
INDISPENSABLE TO PIANO DEALERS AND SALESMEN
We are now making shipments of our latest model, which is fcoolprbof and indestructible.
Price reduced to $95.00 including extra good moving cover.
A
:
Shipped to responsible dealers on approval.
.
Try one. If you don't like it send it back.
:
BOWEN PIANO LOADER CO.,
Winston-Salem, N. C.
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All Rights Reserved. Digitized from the archives of the MBSI with support from NAMM - The International Music Products Association (www.namm.org).
Additional enhancement, optimization, and distribution by the International Arcade Museum. An extensive collection of Presto can be found online at http://www.arcade-museum.com/library/
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