Happy birthday to grandsons Zachary, 34, and Nick Duda, 25! They celebrate the same birthday! We are very proud of these young men!
Suitcase #1 of 8 almost closed!
This morning we departed for Dianne’s home to meet with Zachary so he could estimate the cost of putting in a first-class set of security cameras and a updated wifi system in her home. We arrived at Dianne’s and had a cup of coffee and Zack joined us at 8:30 am.
We walked the yard as well as visit the in-home museum! I believe Zack was quite amazed!
One could spend an hour in here discovering the past!!
Even the ceiling was adorned with solid copper foil!
The Wurlitzer sounds like a full orchestra!
Did You Know?
The Rudolph Wurlitzer Company, usually referred to as simply Wurlitzer, is an American company started in Cincinnati in 1853 by German immigrant (Franz) Rudolph Wurlitzer. The company initially imported stringed, woodwind and brass ,instruments from Germany for resale in the United States. Wurlitzer enjoyed initial success, largely due to contracts to provide musical instruments to the U.S. military. In 1880, th1880y began manufacturing pianos and eventually relocated to North Tonawanda, New York. It quickly expanded to make band organs, orchestrions, player pianos and pipe organ theatre organs popular in theatres during the days of silent movies.
Wurlitzer also operated a chain of retail stores where the company’s products were sold. As technology evolved, Wurlitzer began producing electric pianos, electronic organs, and jukeboxes. It eventually became known more for jukeboxes and vending machines, which are still made by Wurlitzer.
Wurlitzer’s jukebox operations were sold and moved to Germany in 1973. The Wurlitzer piano and organ brands and U.S. manufacturing facilities were acquired by the Baldwin Piano Company in 1988, and most piano manufacturing moved overseas.
The Baldwin Co., including its Wurlitzer assets, was acquired by the Gibson Guitar Corporation in about 1996. Ten years later, Gibson acquired Deutsche Wurlitzer and the Wurlitzer Jukebox and Vending Electronics trademarks, briefly reuniting Wurlitzer’s best-known products under a single corporate banner in 2006. Baldwin ceased making Wurlitzer-brand pianos in 2009. Vending machines are still manufactured in Germany using the Wurlitzer name under Gibson ownership. The company ceased manufacturing jukeboxes in 2013 but they still sell replacement parts.
Returning home, we packed and began getting things ready for Thursday morning for our 2:30 am departure to LAX via limo!
We finished up around 4:45 pm and went to Benihana’s Restaurant in Santa Ana to celebrate Nick’s birthday.
Nick has been wanting to go here for a long time.
We sat in the Tappan room with 200,000 others— level sounded like that! It was like trying to have a peaceful converse peacefully at rock concert featuring a very enthusiastic marching band.
Fun with family!
The chef was amazing making the knives clank on the steel table. Flames were shooting into the air, I almost wanted to sing the Star Spangled Banner as I was finishing my rice.
Call 911, my shrimp just blew u;!
We took a picture of the original photo the restaurant provided us. Bob’s sister and mother joined us for the celebration!
A picture of a picture!
We headed home and admired out new iPhone controlled outdoor lighting. Sometimes it even scares me!!
New lighting can be changed with the touch of the iPhone!
We stayed up until almost midnight finishing some of the packing we had to do.
Here we come!
