Norm van Maastricht | March 8, 2011
The Face On The Music Store Wall… Once upon a time in the almost mythical place called California In an almost mythical village called Redwood City Was an almost mythical music store called Gelb Music. And it was good. Gelb Music was the last store owned and operated by the late Sidney Gelb. Sidney Gelb [...]
Norm van Maastricht | February 4, 2011
Toni Berry… During the Gelb years when Kevin and Henry had the store I used to take my Dobro over to Kitty and Errol’s, the Powers sisters, two pretty Montessori schoolteachers. We’d play music. They both played a little guitar, Kitty was a guitar student of mine. They both sang so we’d have a nice [...]
Norm van Maastricht | July 27, 2009
“Paper Dolls by Vann” is how I signed my artwork… This is Evelyn Nesbit. A beautiful, young, turn of the (19th) century lass. An in demand artist’s model, she gained fame as one of the “Gibson Girls” by modeling for Charles Dana Gibson a noted illustrator of the day. She had several affairs, most notably [...]
Norm van Maastricht | April 16, 2009
I really can’t remember how I met Dan but I do know we were looking for a doorman at the live music saloon called Barney Steel’s in Redwood City where I was the de facto manager. I suspect it was through a mutual friend, Jan Condran, a waitress on my crew at the time. [...]
Norm van Maastricht | November 23, 2008
This lovely lass turned out to be my most important model now that I think about it. Certainly the one I photographed most. She would patiently do whatever I asked when I was learning to use my first Nikon camera and some of the shots of her are the best I have ever taken. Since my paintings used [...]
