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kihoalukid
Lokahi
USA
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 Posted - 05/05/2004 : 7:36:56 PM
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I may be taking a very short trip to San Diego area and want to hit the best guitar shops, say within about a 50 mile radius, so far ive got Buffalo Bros on the itinerary, any others with good acoustic selections? Thanks!
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wdf
Ha`aha`a
USA
1153 Posts |
Posted - 05/06/2004 : 12:21:07 PM
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Guitar Trader
7120 Clairemont Mesa Boulevard
San Diego, CA 92111
(858) 565-8814
GUITAR CENTER
733 Center Drive
San Marcos, CA 92069
(760) 735-8050
Guitar Center
8825 Murray Dr
La Mesa, CA 91942
(619) 668-8400
Guitar Center
6533 El Cajon Blvd.
San Diego CA 92115
619-583-9751
Freedom Guitar
6334 El Cajon Boulevard
San Diego, CA 92115
1-800-831-5569
http://www.freedomguitar.com
House of Strings
3411 Ray Street
San Diego, California 92104
(619) 280-9035
http://www.houseofstrings.com
La Jolla Music 7442 Girard Ave
La Jolla, CA
858-459-3375
http://www.lajollamusic.com
Dusty's Music Store (No it's not me!)
1609 S Coast Hwy
Oceanside, CA 92054
(760) 757-6209
A bit out of the 50 mile radius:
Sam Ash
12651 Artesia Blvd
Cerritos CA 90703
562-468-1107
Sam Ash
14200 Beach Blvd
Westminster, CA 92683
714-899-2122
Morey's Music
4834 Woodruff Ave.
Lakewood CA 90713
310-420-9532
The Fret House
309 N. Citrus Ave.
Covina, CA 91723
(626) 339-7020
McCabe's
3101 Pico Blvd
Santa Monica, CA 90405
(310) 828-4497
http://www.mccabes.com/
There is also the wonderful
Folk Music Center
220 Yale Ave
Claremont, CA 91711-4724
909-624-2928
http://www.folkmusiccenter.com
There is also the Taylor Guitar factory in El Cajon (near San Diego). They offer daily tours.
http://www.taylorguitars.com/contact
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Mark
Ha`aha`a
USA
1628 Posts |
Posted - 05/06/2004 : 12:40:01 PM
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Did I forget any?
Yep..
Shade Tree Music; Greg and Margie Mirkin's wonderful little store in Laguna Nigel.
Cheers,
M |
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cpatch
Ahonui
USA
2187 Posts |
Posted - 05/06/2004 : 1:39:05 PM
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Originally posted by wdf
Did I forget any?
I would have forgotten Guitar Center (on purpose). |
Craig
My goal is to be able to play as well as people think I can. |
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Craig
Aloha
USA
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Posted - 05/06/2004 : 2:02:55 PM
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Hi, guys. New member here from San Diego.
There is no longer a Guitar Center on El Cajon Blvd. Also, House of Strings (which is run by some absolutely wonderful folks) is moving to University Ave. Unfortunately I don't have their new address.
Nearly 20 years ago I used to be the manager of Guitar Trader. It's changed a lot but still has some of the best prices in town.
McCabe's is up in LA, but by all means visit if you get the chance. I second Mark's comment re Shade Tree. I love that store!!  And it's quite a bit closer to San Diego than McCabes. |
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kihoalukid
Lokahi
USA
289 Posts |
Posted - 05/06/2004 : 2:32:21 PM
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| Thanks! Geez, looks like ill have to try and extend my stay! |
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marzullo
`Olu`olu
USA
923 Posts |
Posted - 05/06/2004 : 2:32:45 PM
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hi craig! welcome to our `ohana! and, you should join us at the SoCal Slack Key society meetings. the next one is 12 may, up at the M3 coffeehouse in Oceanside.
in the "judge a guitar store by their tolerance of you retuning and playing their guitars" combined with "lack of people trying to impress by playing 'staircase to heaven'", McCabes is awesome and Buff Bros is a short step behind. shade tree is rather li`ili`i but they folks are very nice.
aloha, keith
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sandman
Lokahi
USA
181 Posts |
Posted - 05/06/2004 : 4:53:45 PM
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Shade Tree is nice and up the freeway a bit on 7th Street in Long Beach is World of Strings. They have a website but it does not identify specific guitars, only lines of the many types of string instruments they carry. Good people and they do a lot of work on site.
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Leap into the boundless and make it your home.
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cpatch
Ahonui
USA
2187 Posts |
Posted - 05/06/2004 : 5:17:52 PM
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| Cool, another San Diego Craig! A few more and we can start our own society. Welcome aboard! |
Craig
My goal is to be able to play as well as people think I can. |
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wdf
Ha`aha`a
USA
1153 Posts |
Posted - 05/07/2004 : 3:18:28 PM
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Shade Tree Music; Greg and Margie Mirkin's wonderful little store in Laguna Nigel.
Actually, Shade Tree is in the process of a move, so they have no showroom at the present. From what I gather, they want to spend more time on the repair end of the business. According to their website, http://www.shadetreeguitars.com/ they still have inventory. Maybe they are going into mail order? |
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