Bernice Petkere (1901–2000), composer, lyricist.Wallie Herzer (1885–1961), composer, lyricist." My Little Grass Shack in Kealakekua, Hawaii" (1933).Selected published music, composers, and lyricists Works Spiegel (born around 1875) in 1998 in San Francisco She was hired by Richard Powers, Sherman, Clay's general manager for the New York office She married William C.
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Rose Fischer (born around 1878), in 1922, left a position in the New York office of Broadway Music to work with the professional department in the New York office of Sherman, Clay & Co.Elizabeth Octavia Garrett (née Stone), mother of actress Betty Garrett (1919–2011) managed the sheet music department in Sherman Clay, Seattle.Bernie Pollack replaced Richard Powers in 1925 as general manager of the New York office.Richard Powers, Sherman, Clay's general manager for the New York office, until 1925, when he went into radio."Sandy" Balcom, and Leroy "Pop" Vaughan, who both once worked for the Sherman, Clay & Co., in Seattle, went on to found Balcom and Vaughan, a pipe organ manufacturing company in Seattle May 7, 2013, was proclaimed by San Francisco chief of protocol Charlotte Mailliard Shultz as Sherman Clay Day in San Francisco to honor the retailer. Since the 1970s, the company had been owned by Sherman Clay Group, a diverse company involved in real estate management and consumer finance. The Seattle location was the company's last store. The company had only two stores elsewhere at the time, in Seattle and Houston, but they closed later the same year, the Houston store around June and the Seattle store in September 2013. Of the four remaining California locations at that time, the stores in San Francisco and Walnut Creek were sold to Steinway and Sons, to remain in operation as piano dealerships, while those in Roseville and San Bruno were to be closed. In 2013, Sherman Clay announced it was exiting the retail business in California, its longtime home base, on May 31, 2013, after 142 years. The company also sold new and used pianos manufactured by companies such as Steinway & Sons (which included subcontracted pianos from suppliers sold under the secondary names Boston and Essex), the Yamaha Corporation, and the Henry F. 21st century īy the 2010s, Sherman, Clay claimed to have sold over two million instruments. The company soon began to expand beyond the West Coast, and by the mid-1970s it had "become a national chain, with stores from Manhattan to Kansas City and Seattle to Los Angeles." In the 1980s, it had around 60 stores. Its headquarters was still in San Francisco at that time. It had 28 stores in spring 1965, all located in the three states of California, Oregon and Washington. The company had 21 stores in the 1950s, and was continuing to expand.
The company was sold to Bernard Schwartz, of San Francisco, in 1957.
Clay Sherman, grandson of co-founder Leander Sherman, became president of the company in 1949. The Portland store changed locations a few times but, notably, remained in the Woodlark Building from 1930 to 1974, and the company continued to operate a Portland store until 2013. The Woodlark Building, in Portland, Oregon, had a Sherman Clay store from 1930 to 1974.īy 1894, the company had grown to four stores, with the opening of a store in Portland, Oregon, joining existing ones in San Francisco, Oakland, and Seattle.
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