In midtown where the suited people were plentiful, you could walk into the store in jeans and feel good about being an artist--even a broke one. I used Manny's in a scene in one of my novels (Family Hangovers). A young woman who lost her band and husband walks off her corporate temporary job and heads to Manny's for her first electric guitar. She's played rhythm for years and this is a big decision to live her own life, play her own riffs. The novel isn't published yet, but I'm keeping Manny's in it. Call it denial but I don't think any other store could conjure up that same feeling of finally being home. www.larentschler.com
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