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Janet and her remarkable Corsican Mercedes trunk project
The piece details Janet’s car and an inventor, Dave, who built a huge trunk for her Mercedes to haul her music gear. It explains his guarantee mindset, his prior invention work for Schick, and his coffinlike trunk with an internal open button. It also covers Janet’s musical background and local Long Beach gigs.
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Dave
David
Schick Corporation
Janet
Mercedes
Hamilton
Ohio
Cincinnati
Cincinnati Conservatory of Music
Cinderella
Columbus
Annie
Hava Nagila
Malaguena
Granada
Linda Ronstadt
Lou Rawls
Misty Blue
Deep Purple
Kevin
Gino Lanzi
Scalawags
Ray Charles
Rick Nelson
Bill Eckstine
Buddy Holly
Pats Domino
New York City
Gino
Bill Crandall
Brooklyn
Spring Street
Temple Avenue
Dave Lewis Jr
Bob
Rosemary Burton
Olive Tree
Pacific Coast Highway
Loynes Drive
Yesteryear
del Rabio
la Fuente
Valley View R Boulevard
Chapman Avenue
Garden Grove
Andrew Sisters
del Rubios
L.A
Tom Bradley
Long Beach
Dick Jones
Hollywood Palladium
Dick van Dyke
Pave Silvers
Java Lanes
Pacific Coast Hwy
Pete Flores
Bruce Cook
City Lights
Young Dave
Millikan High