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W<\/strong>elcome to Pete\u2019s Place,<\/em> maintained by Peter Feldmann and reflecting memories of eight decades with the music and musicians he has known and loved.<\/h2>\n

(To find posts, use the search box at the right.)<\/h4>\n
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A Visit with Earl Scruggs<\/a><\/strong> — Hey Pete!, let’s go pay a call on my buddy Earl!<\/p>\n

The Bluebird Caf\u00e9 fifty years later.<\/a><\/strong> Stories, photos, music.<\/p>\n

The Origins of Bluegrass Music<\/strong><\/a> — A highly-opinionated, lengthy discussion by several people about what bluegrass is, how it came to be, and where it is going.<\/p>\n

1965: Whiskey Flat Fiddle Contest:<\/strong> <\/a>Field recordings, east of Bakersfield!<\/p>\n

Very popular: The Folk Music Revival<\/a><\/strong> (Getting things started in 1963, a panel discussion with Bill Monroe, Tom Ashley, Mance Lipscomb, Doc Watson<\/strong> and much more.)<\/p>\n

An important series: Folk Music in Santa Barbara<\/strong>.\u00a0<\/a> (This spring, we published a new work on Folk Music in Santa Barbara<\/em>, conceived and edited by Marilyn Brenner, former owner of the folk club The Iopan<\/em>.) To read this series from the start,\u00a0 Click Here.<\/a><\/p>\n

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1st Santa Barbara Fiddlers’ Convention button, 1972<\/a><\/p><\/div>\n

We’ve published have quite an array of articles, mainly dealing with music and musicians. See the column to the right for our menu and archive system. Articles are listed by category and date published. Links to adjacent articles (by date)\u00a0 are located near the top of each page to the left and right, and you can search for names or topics using the search field<\/strong> at the very top right of our black menu bar (magnifying glass.)<\/p>\n

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Saloon at Sutro, Nevada, 1967 – Peter Feldmann photo.<\/p><\/div>\n

NOTE: The header photo was taken during the winter of 1967-68 at a place in Northern Nevada called “Sutro”. \u00a0These were buildings, then more than 100 years old, that were part of the installation for construction of the Sutro Tunnel, located east of Dayton along US Highway 50 and near the foot of Six Mile Canyon, below Virginia City, Nevada. \u00a0Swiss mining engineer Adolph Sutro constructed this tunnel to intersect the vertical mine shafts sunk during the silver mining operations in the early 1860s, to help drain water out of the mine shafts. \u00a0 By 1869, when the tunnel was completed, the mines were about played out, Sutro lost a fortune, and moved on to San Francisco where he built a famous museum and bath houses. \u00a0Almost one hundred years later, Graham Ross & associates converted the building to the right (originally a warehouse) into a saloon. \u00a0My friend Pierce Powell tended bar there in the late 60s. \u00a0The buildings are (in part) gone now, mostly destroyed by vandal-caused fires, but\u00a0 water still flows from the tunnel opening to this day . . . \u00a0a bit of Nevada history.<\/h6>\n

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