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CHARLES LUNDE'S retirement may not be for everybody, but it suits him just fine.
"I've been retired for 15 years, and I work every day," Lunde was saying Friday. "It's what keeps me going."
Lunde, whose friends surprised him with an 80th birthday party Thursday night at The Edgewater, is a local legend when it comes to classical music. He has worked on State Street for 57 years and currently sells classical music CDs out of the basement of the Exclusive Company on State Street. The revamped storage area also includes some jazz, but classical is Lunde's passion, and it's one he has communicated over the years to a loyal customer base.
"That passion has never gone away and it never will," Lunde said.
Originally from Milwaukee, Lunde came here in the mid-1940s for school and started working for Victor Music on State Street in 1947. He has never left. "It's my street," he said with a laugh. "It has gotten a little tacky," he said, and he thinks older people may be concerned about...