Instruments retailer Guitar Center just spent $5 million renovating its flagship store and has a plan to retake its place in music. Guitar Center, Once on a Precipice, Is Now Opening New Stores ...

The store was started on Bascom Avenue in 1965 by Bud Eastman, who left a couple of years later to start Guitar Player magazine. He sold it to Wineroth’s older brother, Barry, now 61, for $500.

TOKYO >> Fender, the guitar of choice for some of the world’s biggest stars, from Jimi Hendrix to Eric Clapton, opened what it calls its “first flagship store” in its 77-year history.

Pedestrians walk past along the street below outside the first global flagship store by US guitar maker Fender a day before it opens in Tokyo on June 29, 2023. RICHARD A. BROOKS/AFP via Getty Images.