The wife of late guitar legend and Orange County native Leo Fender is releasing a new book later this year. Phyllis Fender’s “Leo Fender: The Quiet Giant Heard Around the World,” which she co-wrote ...
Leo Fender, maker of Fender guitars, famously never learned how to play a guitar. He also couldn't dance. And after a freak accident with an amplifier, he lost most of his hearing. But the man known ...
Grand marshals have been named for the Fullerton Founders Day Parade, which returns on Sept. 26 after a 22-year hiatus. The grand marshals are (insert drum roll here) Phyllis Fender, wife of the late ...
There are many people who claim the title “inventor of the electric guitar,” but perhaps the one whose name has percolated the most on the local, national and international level is Leo Fender. Now ...
FULLERTON, Calif., Jan. 21 As G&L Guitars' honorarychairperson, Phyllis Fender presented a $20,000 check on Saturday to The SmileTrain, the world's leading charity providing free cleft surgery to ...
Leo Fender, the man instrumental in changing popular music in the 20th century and beyond, was literally born in a barn. It was on Lone Oak Farm on the border of Fullerton and Anaheim, off what would ...
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Though it moved a relatively short distance from the quaint shopping district surrounding downtown Fullerton to the bucolic splendor of Corona (cough), Fender has truly come a long way. Birthed in a ...
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