Shopping in Lancaster

Mattress Mattress of WNY Inc. promotes sweet dreams with a gallery of quality sleeping surfaces. Mattresses from top brands such as Sealy and Stearns & Foster come outfitted with features such as an extra-firm feel, Posturepedic pillow-tops, and pre-inserted peas to determine the legitimacy of a supposed princess.

Since 1953, the team at Perry's Nurseries and Garden Center has helped customers refine the appearances and health of their homes' precious landscapes. The greenhouse introduces local gardeners to a vast inventory of ornamental trees, roses, annuals, and perennials, while the shop's interior houses all manner of yard accents and tools. Perry's gears up for holidays with decorative items such as Thanksgiving corncobs, Mother's Day hanging plants, and Christmas wreaths and poinsettias. Hand-tuned wind chimes sing in the breeze created by a neighbor's industrial-strength hair dryer, and birdbaths and statuaries strain to remain utterly still while humans ponder their adoption.

With an enormous inventory of instruments, a dependable technician, and friendly instructors, The Guitar Factory is the kind of store that performers come to count on over the course of their musical evolution. Here, musicians can browse from simple-starter electric guitars from Ibanez to high-end acoustics from Martin. Keyboards, percussion, amps, basses, and other gear are also available. When wear and tear strikes, the shop’s in-house repairman, Charles J. Quagliana, can nurse instruments back to functionality. Charles has honed his handiwork by working for superstars such as Mary J. Blige, Prince, The Beach Boys, and the Mos Eisley Cantina band.

In the studio’s 10 air-conditioned lesson rooms, a team of teachers with more than 30 years’ experience teach guitar, drums, bass, keyboard, and other instruments. Joe Shanahan, who teaches bass, guitar, vocal, keyboards, and drums, was inducted into the Buffalo Music Hall of Fame with his band, Only Humen, and guitarist/singer/teacher Tommy Z has performed for the U.S. troops in Afghanistan and Iraq. Instructors tailor each lesson to student’s individual needs; with a current student pool ranging from ages 4 to 70, instructors are comfortable working with a wide range of skill sets.