CK Gottschalk

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Oral History Information

Interview Date
Job Title
President
Company Name
Gottschalk Music

CK Gottschalk is the president of the music store in Michigan that his parents established in 1936, the same year they married. They expanded their business just before CK was born and later moved the business to central California. CK studied music and taught math while his mother ran the store while his father taught music. In the early 1960s CK’s father started 7 flight schools, his other passion, while CK and his mother ran the music store. He took over the business when his mother became ill in 1990. CK’s two sons and his brother run music stores in the central valley as well.