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March 19, 2007 | Birthday Cake

If only we could have our cake and eat it, too. This would definitely be the desire of newfound friend and fellow Carolina picker, Cal Sparks and his father, Glenn. For an 80th Birthday celebration a special mandolin cake was baked and frosted in tribute to a serious picking hobby started by a young Depression Era nine-year-old with a five dollar bill, a pawn shop, and a (grand)father's prudent wish this investment would be one that would stick. Seven decades later, it appears to have made it.

The cake decoration models Gibson Loar (made in Montana) reissue made in the early 1990s, which continues to be kept in perfect shape. (The mandolin, not the cake; that was gobbled up an gone long ago...)

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Posted by Ted at March 19, 2007 5:30 AM


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