The following is from a NY Times article aboiut Staten Island. You can find the whole story at << http://dailynews.yahoo.com/h/nyt/20010817/en/a_staten_island_worth_remembering _1.html>> "The same can be said for Mandolin Brothers, a bustling little shop-cum- museum close to the zoo, which is one of the world's foremost dealers in new and vintage guitars and other fretted instruments. The shop has been responsible for bringing some unlikely tourists to Staten Island: Joni Mitchell, for one, who immortalized the shop in a song, and George Harrison, who popped in one day unannounced and went on a 40- minute shopping spree. The owner, Stan Jay, doesn't mind visitors' picking up the priceless Fender Stratocasters and giving themselves an Eric Clapton moment."
