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  1. Forget the hokey lines about loneliness and roaming and beckoning–what I like best about this ad are the payment terms: weekly or monthly payment plans for salaried workers, and up to annual plans to farmers, ranchers and stockmen. I don’t know of lenders these days who offer arrangements like that–but maybe it’s just that there aren’t many farmers or ranchers in New York City.

  2. That is a fascinating detail, Mark.

    I’m trying to parse the address. 6135 Main is too far out to be Salt Lake City anymore, and I’m not sure Main St. ever went that far in either direction. Could it be something like 61 Main, 3rd Floor, Suite 5? Sounds more like an office than a piano show room (and a lot of heavy lifting).

  3. The difference in payment terms for salaried people and farmers caught my eye as well. Pianos and harmoniums must have been among the first consumer products sold on credit.

    Mike R., could it be 61/63/65 Main Street? Three storefronts as one business?

    Many years ago at BYU, a fellow music student told me that Idaho farmers used the word “sunshine” to refer to manure. This puts “Music In The Home Puts Sunshine In The Heart” in a new light!

  5. I am thinking that 61-3-5 are door numbers at 61 Main Street, so that Daynes had 3 doors as in door number 61 door 63, door 65 into their establishment, with 61 being the main entry. Just guessing.

  6. During the 1920’s piano building was the biggest business in the United States.1 That ended with the stock market crash. And yes, Daynes surely had multiple storefronts for their business

    1) per my husband who is an expert on all things piano

  7. Sorry, I’ve been away — but you didn’t need me: You’re all right about the three street addresses being occupied by a single business on Main Street.

    I actually hadn’t noticed the different terms available to buyers, Mark — that’s really an interesting thing to think about.

  8. I’ve found some old photographs of Main Street in Salt Lake City (beginning with the photo on Daynes Music Company’s website, the “About” page) which puts Daynes Music on the east side of Main Street just south of the Old ZCMI store, and north of the Uptown Theater. The Theater’s address was 53 S. Main, which suggests either that Daynes moved a few doors north (unlikely, since the Uptown, or its predecessor, was built in 1911), or that the building numbering changed.

    Nothing remains of that old block, other than the cast iron ZCMI facade, which was removed, restored, and reinstalled during the construction of the City Creek Center.

  9. Just north of the Uptown Theater, and south of the ZCMI, is a good match for the 45 Main St. address that appears when we’ve seen their letterhead before. (https://keepapitchinin.org/2010/01/11/the-whole-year-through-daynes-music-advertising-1915/). If that picture really is 1953, like the website says, then I guess a renumbering is more likely,, unless they moved south of the theater temporarily, then back up.

    Strange that website doesn’t list Joseph J. as one of their past presidents, but that he appears as president here.

  10. Salt Lake did undergo a renumbering sometime in — I want to say 1946 or 47 or thereabouts — under City Engineer Richard R. Lyman (yeah, that Lyman, the former apostle), to do away with some numbering anomalies and bring everything into a unified system. (The original numbering system had gone kittywampus when independently numbered towns eventually grew to merge into one massive Salt Lake City. They also wanted the Salt Lake numbering system to blend seamlessly into the streets of Bountiful, in Davis County, where the two systems met.

  11. I’m guessing the owner is a relative of the Joseph Daynes that served as the original tabernacle organist? Going 70 years in the other direction, Beebe still publishes hymn arrangements for LDS ward choirs under “The Beebe Sound” brand. (Usually a medley with fancied-up accompaniment with vocal parts lifted from the hymnal).

    And yes, Jim Wallman, “sunshine” is indeed a euphanism in SE Idaho. As a kid, when we passed a farmer in his manure spreader working over the harvested fields, my younger brother would burst into song “Scatter sunshine all along the way…” I’ve never been able to sing the song in a worshipful frame of mind ever since.

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