Cordoba/Guild Office Santa Monica

[Rich Cohen]

Visiting my son in Santa Monica. About a mile from his home I found an office for Cordoba/Guild at the corner of 19th and Broadway.

 

[walrus]

That's cool!

walrus

 

[gilded]

nice pic, Rich. Thanks for sharing. How many sq feet do you think the complete office is?

gilded

 

[Rich Cohen]

nice pic, Rich. Thanks for sharing. How many sq feet do you think the complete office is?

gilded

Not sure. It’s not a showroom. Didn’t go in.

 

[davismanLV]

That's where I was born! Santa Monica, not that Cordoba/Guild building. Pretty fancy digs for a company. Real estate there is insane!!

 

[bobouz]

That's where I was born! Santa Monica, not that Cordoba/Guild building.

I was born & raised in Pasadena, but my parents would often take us to a park in Santa Monica on a steep cliff overlooking the ocean. It had a white wooden fence bordering the edge of the cliff. This was in the ‘50s, and my little kid’s brain was sure it was the most beautiful place on earth.

And fun fact - After traversing Pasadena & Hollywood, Santa Monica was the western end point for Route 66.

 

[dreadnut]

Their sign looks like a giant can coaster.

 

[davismanLV]

That park up on the cliffs overlooking the ocean is beautiful! Even though we moved to the Valley (San Fernando Valley) when I was 3 my dad worked for RAND Corporation, a military and government think tank that was right near there by the pier for 35 years before he retired and became the chief pilot for The Air Group in Van Nuys. Santa Monica is beautiful.

 

[GuildFS4612CE]

Palisades Park

 

[gilded]

Nice pics!! Good to see your name in Lights!

 

[bobouz]

Palisades Park

That’s the one! Thanks for sharing pics. I could always instantly conger up that view in my mind, and it probably has a great deal to do with why I’ve always been drawn to the ocean. For the last 34 years, we’ve been fortunate enough to be able to watch the sun go down beyond the bay & over the ocean, from our front window here along the north Oregon coast. A long ways from Santa Monica, but the same soothing waters - just not nearly as warm!

 

[Rich Cohen]

We took a drive this afternoon from SM on route 1 north past Malibu to Oxnard and back. Very scenic.

 

[Bernie]

Visiting my son in Santa Monica. About a mile from his home I found an office for Cordoba/Guild at the corner of 19th and Broadway. (...)

It could be where GSI (Guitar Salon International) stands if it's at number 1455 19th St., a showroom where they display many high-end (often Spanish) guitars...All the most famous luthiers' guitars are there (very high prices). Seems to me they must take all kinds of photographs, drawings and specs from there, and then build their owns from it - they have many models in tribute to the greatest masters... Maybe that's where they learned how to build Guilds after Guild's originals ...

 

[Charlie Bernstein]

The Santa Monica sky looks a lot clearer than when I worked in there!

 

[Charlie Bernstein]

Palisades Park

And I always thought it was in Jersey. Been living a lie!

 

[SFIV1967]

It’s not a showroom. Didn’t go in.

It's not just "an office", it's the CMG headquarters and it has actually a very nice showroom inside which one can visit on appointment! (Just noticed that Bernie wrote the same).

Read all about the recent history of the building here:
https://letstalkguild.com/ltg/index...t-hollywood-guitar-center.210304/post-1994620

Ralf

 

[fronobulax]

Their sign looks like a giant can coaster.

 

[fronobulax]

Maybe that's where they learned how to build Guilds after Guild's originals ...

CMG borrowed several instruments from a Guild collection and used the associated measurements to design some Newark Street models as well as some models bing made in Oxnard.

 

[wileypickett]

Nice pic indeed! You just happened to stumble on it?!

 

[Rich Cohen]

Nice pic indeed! You just happened to stumble on it?!

No I looked it up and found that it’s only a few minutes walk from my sons apartment.