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Have you ever seen the "Memorabilia" section on here?

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Nov 4, 2008 12:31 a.m. bigalthethird:

Well I can't be alone, can I? Before tonight, I'd never seen or heard of the Memorabilia section of the site. You can find it here.

It's pretty damn cool! There's a few old catalogs from important years in the company's history, some other various 'odds and ends,' and most interestingly to me, a price list from 1968.

Did you know that a White Falcon cost $1,000 in 1968? Given inflation, that's just about $6,000 in today's money!! Wow!

Anyways, that's all I've got. I assume Baxter put the page(s) together so many kudos to him. It's pretty darn cool.
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Nov 4, 2008 6:06 a.m. XRAYCAT:

never seen a comitee before!

and i like the vertical logo tumblers!
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Nov 4, 2008 6:29 a.m. DangerousMan:

Bloody Nora, I've been here well over a year and never saw that. Great stuff.

Actually - that '78 committee looks kind of like a Rickenbacker Dakota.
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Nov 4, 2008 1:04 p.m. lexnonscripta:

one up for bigalIII

the 1972 Catalog shows the 7560 with bound f holes - a question that came up in an earlier thread "Vintage (?) Visitor" - though the guitar I photographed didn't have the G Arrows on the pickups.

very interesting post and thanks
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Nov 4, 2008 1:19 p.m. Ric12string:

XRayCat, where is the Committee located? And the vertical logo tumblers? Would love to see them, but I don't have the patience to search through every page of every catalogue to find them.

EDIT: Okay, found it in the 1978 catalogue. Thanks, bigal, for reminding us that the memorabilia section exists. I remember plowing through some of these catalogues in this section before, but it was nice to go back and revisit some of them.
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Nov 4, 2008 3:10 p.m. audiodrome:

I've never even heard of a Gretsch Eldorado. It looks like a pretty nice guitar. Anyone here ever seen one?
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Nov 5, 2008 3:07 p.m. powerjet:

I was suprised to find out that my 68 Superbass piggy back would have cost just as much as 68 duojet! lots of cash for back then but the amp plays amazing now so the quality is worth it
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Nov 30, 2008 12:05 p.m. Diga:

AD, those are Dorado guitars. They were made in Japan and distributed by Gretsch in the early 70s.

I have two ... the 5992 12 string acoustic and a 5990 6 string acoustic.

They are a nice sort of just below mid level acoustic in my opinion. I really like the 12 string. Has a smaller body, hold its tune nicely.
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Nov 30, 2008 2:55 p.m. Baxter:

Diga, there's Dorado guitars (inexpensive Japanese guitars imported through the 70s), and the El Dorado, which was a direct descendent of the 40s Synchromatics, and was very, very nice. I think it was model 6040, IIRC.

I believe the El Dorado was resurrected for awhile in the 90s, but my memory may be faulty there.
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Nov 30, 2008 3:16 p.m. MacStevenXIII:

The singer in my band used to own a Committee.
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Nov 30, 2008 9:10 p.m. Diga:

Baxter, how right you are .... my bad. Certainly thought he was refering the Japanese made Dorados.

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