In the fall-winter catalogue of 1963, Sears debuted its 1480 line of Silvertone guitar amps. The most popular of the bunch was the 15-watt 1482, which featured a vertically mounted chassis, a 12-inch ...
There were four things Francis “Rocco” Prestia and I had in common. We both started out playing guitar. Like me, Rocco’s first electric guitar was a Sears Silvertone guitar where the guitar case was ...