After years of local workers fighting to show their worth, the writing was officially on the wall in February of 1984: The Gibson Guitar Co. announced it was leaving Kalamazoo for good.

Kalamazoo Academy of Rock students Zoe Folsom and Wyatt Hardy, both 15, explain why they enjoy getting to practice each week in the former Gibson Guitar Co. plant at 225 Parsons St. that's ...

KALAMAZOO, Mich. — The former Gibson plant in Kalamazoo will soon become a REVERB by Hard Rock hotel, according to a news release Monday. REVERB by Hard Rock Kalamazoo is expected to embody the ...

KALAMAZOO, Mich. — The rhythm of rock and roll isn’t something out of the ordinary to the seemingly warn down building at Kalamazoo’s 225 Parsons Street. At the original home of Gibson ...

“REVERB Kalamazoo is the perfect new location for the REVERB by Hard Rock brand with ... Heritage Guitar, Inc. was set up in part of the old Gibson plant by four former Gibson employees in 1985 ...

It was 1984 before Gibson moved all of its production out to Nashville, but a few people didn't want to leave Kalamazoo, so they stayed and created a new guitar company in Gibson's old building ...

Orville H. Gibson, the founder of Gibson guitars in Kalamazoo, died on August 19, 1918. (WDIV) ... The Kalamazoo plant was closed officially in 1984.

KALAMAZOO, Mich. (WOOD) — A new hotel by Hard Rock Hotels is expected to move in to the Kalamazoo site that was once home to Gibson Guitar. The new business casual hotel on Parsons Street in the ...

A new Gibson factory in Nashville opened in ’74, and the original Kalamazoo plant was closed 10 years later. Some guitarists ...

From the bold introduction of the Flying V and Explorer, to the acquisition of Epiphone, we celebrate 130 years of Gibson with a recap of the most significant stages of its history ...