Even though it's a guitar shop....

I do occasionally buy non-guitar stuff.  Rarely, but every once in a while I will buy something just because it's prewar or uncommon.  This one is from the mandolin family.  It is branded Wurlitzer.  Yes, the jukebox company.  Over the years Wurlitzer has offered many products including pianos, organs, and guitars.  If anyone has an old Wurlitzer acoustic, I'm a buyer.   

This mandolin is for sale - $399

Bizarro World

Good lord - it's a window into a parallel universe!!  It's a strange and twisted place, where banjos have six strings, guitars have only four, and bass players get all the groupies.  Wait, no.  It's just a Johnson Guitjo (or is it a Banjitar?) sitting next to an old prewar Gibson tenor guitar.  Whew!  For a minute there I was afraid that the fabric of time and space had been ripped asunder once again (seems to happen about once a week around here, if the sounds coming from the repair shop are any indication).  Still, these two make a nice, oddball little couple, "American Gothic" -style; or at least Jerry Lee and Myra Brown-style.  

"Madness, I tell you!  Madness!"