Here's a little history of the Palo Alto Apple Store. (451 University Ave.) It may be the ipod store to many, but it is also where Jerry Garcia used to teach guitar and borrowed instruments in another time. I think the music gods must live there.. why doesn't Steve Jobs have a little plaque honoring the Dead? iTunes, iPod, Iwasonceamusicstoreandamagain.
originally from an online source:
"More and more, the band began borrowing their instruments from
Swain's House of Music. Pauline Swain, who still works in the music
store at 451 University Ave., says she and her husband, Robert, lent
instruments to the band "because we liked to help young musicians."
Sometimes the band would practice in the store. Other times, they would
take the instruments up to La Honda, where they would hang out with
Kesey and his Merry Pranksters. More often than not, "when the
instruments were returned, they came back looking like they had been in
a pig pen," says Swain, making reference to McKernan's nickname."
Swain, who keeps a file of newspaper clippings on the Dead, also
remembers when Garcia asked her secretary how to spell "grateful." He
didn't know if the word was "greatful" or "grateful."
"All my secretary could say was, 'Jerry, with a name like that, you'll never go anywhere.'"
