I opened Guitar Gallery in Old Pasadena, 20 years ago today.

While I enjoyed the previous six years I spent
at Voltage Guitars, this was my baby, for better or worse...



I believe this image was taken (by me) the day the carpet was installed,
which was two days after we opened for business.

The guitar/amp combo was used in the artwork that appeared on our
first t-shirt designs. (1953 lefty Les Paul and Gibson amp.)

I miss that shop, our great customers, and that guitar, to this day.

Tags: Anniversary, Gibson, Les Paul, Lefty, Gold Top

We've added 20 more instruments to the Guitar Gallery. Click the link on the right to check out the new additions.

Today was a short work day.

Our online Shop is now.... well... online. Click on the link to the right, and there you are.

New instruments, accessories, books, etc. are all available.

All transactions are handled through Amazon. This means that all pricing, sales and return policies, shipping policies and costs, etc., are Amazon's. It's safer, and ultimately cheaper for you, and simpler for us. We receive a small "finder's fee" whenever you buy anything through our shop, even if you do a search for something we don't list on our page. This helps us pay for our hosting, and gives us time to upload more cool stuff to our Gallery, and other sections of the site. Running our own e-commerce servers would be a full time job in itself... we'd rather let Amazon do the heavy lifting.

Our vintage instruments, parts, and accessories may be handled in the same manner. We are still deciding on the best way forward.

If you have any questions, comments, concerns, or grievances, feel free to email us using the link at the bottom of the page, or via chat. If we're awake, we're online. [The lord loves a workin' man... with an iPhone.]

Scott & crew

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I’d say welcome back, but it’s us that’s been away.

The new site is set up as a blog, to make adding information a bit simpler for us, and more bite-sized for you. We’ve also added an RSS feed, as that’s what all the kids are doing these days.

Thousands of images of instruments we have had in our hands over the years are being sorted, scanned, and cleaned up, so that we can present them here. Hopefully Scott will provide information on these instruments, as well as anecdotes relating to their crossing our path. We feel this is the best way to preserve this information before his memory goes...

Any items currently available for sale will be in the Inventory category link to the right. When they have sold they will be moved to the Gallery category. Nothing in the Gallery category is currently available for sale, so don’t ask. Either it’s long gone, or we’re not giving it up.

By popular demand, we are bringing back the world famous Roadkill section of the site. Several of these stomach-turners will be up as soon as the anti-nausea meds kick in so we can write them up. Again, the click is to the right. We are accepting submissions, and will credit you if you want us to. Make sure and make that clear in your email, as we prefer to err on the side of caution when it comes to outing our customers on the site. We realize a few of you are still respectable members of your community.

We’d be happy to receive feedback via email as to what you think of the changes. Keep it civil, or when you least expect it you may find yourself on our Roadkill page.

The Fine Folks at Route 66 Guitars


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Tags: Welcome