Jeff Mitchell, director of the Kalamazoo Academy of Rock, and Sharon Ferraro, historic preservation coordinator for the city of Kalamazoo, explain the significance of Gibson's original factory in ...

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Editor's note: This is one in a series of stories about Kalamazoo's guitar-making heritage. Go here to read the full series. KALAMAZOO, MI-- Anyone strumming a Gibson guitar made before 1975 is ...

KALAMAZOO, Mich. (WOOD) — A new hotel by Hard Rock Hotels is expected to move in to the Kalamazoo site that was once home to Gibson Guitar. The new business casual hotel on Parsons Street in the ...

KALAMAZOO, Mich. — The former Gibson plant in Kalamazoo will soon become a REVERB by Hard Rock hotel, according to a news release Monday. REVERB by Hard Rock Kalamazoo is expected to embody the ...

KALAMAZOO, Mich. — The iconic Gibson Mandolin-Guitar Manufacturing Co. site in downtown Kalamazoo will be redeveloped into a new hotel property, under plans that will retain the smokestack. Historic ...

KALAMAZOO, Mich. — A landmark smokestack that’s among the last signs of Kalamazoo’s Gibson guitar-making history is coming down for possible preservation and inclusion in a redevelopment plan on the ...

KALAMAZOO, Mich. (AP) - When the guys at Heritage Guitar Inc. developed a new guitar model, they would show it at a large guitar industry trade show. If retailers there were interested, they’d buy a ...

From its mandolin-making origins to today’s status as one of the most iconic guitar brands in the world, Gibson has seen its fair share of brave new shapes, sounds and technologies, alongside the rise ...

KALAMAZOO, MI. -- For decades the Gibson guitar manufacturing plant made its home in Kalamazoo. They employed more than a thousand people at one point, then eventually decided to pull the plug and ...

KALAMAZOO, Mich. — A-B-C-D-E-F-G-H Irene Stearns was one of the gals in Kalamazoo. The Glenn Miller Orchestra proclaimed in 1942, “I Got a Gal in Kalamazoo ...

Kalamazoo — People who don’t often make it to Kalamazoo’s north side could be excused if they’re puzzled by the sounds of rock ballads echoing inside the former Gibson Guitar Co. factory. It’s not the ...