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Mac Atcheson with the Peachtree Cowboys, circa 1950.
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Conrad and his Hawaiians, another pic found on eBay ...

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Image My dad , Bill Flores on steel, Santa Barbara radio station KTMS 1930's,......no Hawaiians in group, all local guys.
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Is your dad's Bakelite still in the family, Bill?
Love those two matching mini-Martins (O-18s?) -- to die for!
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He traded in the Bakelite for a new Fender Dual 8 in 1949, I still have the Fender.
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From Lono Archambault:
This is a photo of my grandmother Ula Nainoa White, the daughter of Hawaiian steel player Sam Kalunahelu Nainoa. Sam is the cousin of Joseph Kekuku, the inventor of the Hawaiian steel guitar.
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Ula's Bakelite:

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Ula jamming on her Ric, 1980s

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