After 100 years in Manhattan, Sam Ash is closing its doors.
NEW YORK -- After a century in business, a legendary Manhattan music store is soon to close.Joshua Thomas has been coming to Sam Ash music store in Midtown twice a month every month since he was a little kid.'I get a chance to play a lot of different instruments, so I start off with the guitars, go to piano and probably end up in the drums or something like that,' he said.But after 100 years in Manhattan, Sam Ash is closing its doors.
The store has been on 34th Street for the past few years or so, but for decades before that, it lived on 48th Street when the block was known as Music Row.'You might see Led Zeppelin playing or Todd Rundgren,' customer William Cameron said. 'There was at least a half a dozen major guitar stores that used to be right next to each other.'Cameron remembers Sam Ash in the '70s.'Forty-Eighth Street was kind of like going to the Vatican of guitars, man,' he said.
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