Visit Business Insider's homepage for more stories. Vintage guitars are certainly having a moment. And Fender is definitely part of it. The 73-year-old, California-based legend has been making ...

But when Clarence Leonidas “Leo” Fender’s eponymous company released the Fender Stratocaster 70 years ago, it forever changed popular music. Fender, born in 1909, began tinkering with radios ...