Chris Willman Music WriterMcCabe’s Guitar Shop in Santa Monica — which happens to house one of the most storied concert halls in the Los Angeles area as well as being a mecca for acoustic instrument sales and lessons — has gotten to enjoy a Tom Sawyer-type fate this week: attending its own funeral.The Los Angeles Times ran a story online Monday with the headline: “After five decades, McCabe’s Guitar Shop owners are retiring, citing coronavirus.” It was an accurate header… as far as it went.
And that’s about as far as most would-be readers went as the piece spread like wildfire across social media, with each new positing accompanied by an “RIP” or “Heartbroken” caption, inevitably followed by dozens of tear-faced emoticons in place of.
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