Could everyone write one simple essay about something that once happened in Saltaire…that they saw or were a part of…and put it on one big website? Somebody should collect a lot of stories before we all forget. Otherwise it is like a line in “On The Beach” : The history of the war that now would never be written.” -(JO'H)

Wednesday, April 30, 2008

LEGENDS OF THE LIFEGUARDS CH. 3


CHIEF LIFE GUARD RICH WILDE WILL BE ENFORCING THE NEW VILLAGE MODESTY CODE THIS SUMMER. HE IS SHOWN HERE PREPARING HIS TAPE MEASURE FOR THE SUMMER SEASON. THE BOARD OF TRUSTEES HAS GRANTED HIM PEACE OFFICER STATUS TO WRITE SUMMONSES.

Saltaire Dogfish c. 1986

Chris Wright on the Mound
Bilbo at Bat
Some Avid Fans
Saltaire Softball League Champions



JOH'S CHALLENGE: THANKS TO COSMO FOR THESE REMARKABLE PICTURES. THIS IS THE CHALLENGE- COSMO WILL BE THE ULTIMATE ARBITER--


WHO CAN NAME THE MOST PEOPLE IN THE ABOVE FOUR PHOTOS?????????????

CLICK ON COMMENTS BELOW, AND THANK YOU COSMO FOR BEING A GREAT TEAM PLAYER.


EVERYONE ELSE: GET OUT YOUR OLD TEAM PHOTOS AND E MAIL THEM TO joh OR DERF.

More of the Dogfish Parade

Cosmo O with IV of Vodka
Pete Hull with Supply of Beer for Game
Chris Wright (Who let the dogs out?)

Sunday, April 27, 2008

Friday, April 25, 2008

1914 Promotional Brochure




This is a great brochure, courtesy of Larry Lynch. It has images and floor plans of about 15 style houses (We would call them "Coffey" houses today), which you can have built.

It says:

Back in 1911 the first 23 Bungalows were built here.
37 new ones were built in 1912, 38 more in 1913 and for
1914 we hope to double that record: and judging by orders
in hand we believe we will.
Saltaire38.blogspot.com has the full brochure, but we don't know if there is enough interest to post all the pages. Let us know. Or if you have interest in a particular style home, perhaps the brochure has your style.
Let us know.
A. Williams asks: A WIlliams said...
I think it would be great if you could post the entire thing. I have a dog eared photocopy, and those I have shown it to are always interested.
JO'H replies: .give me an E mail directly I can send you scans of every page. johareny@aol.com

Saltaire in the Jazz Age



Saturday, April 19, 2008

Friday, April 18, 2008

GET OUT AND PLAY BALL, 1971

SPRING IS HERE.
GET OUT AND PLAY BALL. THESE ARE THE FIRST EVER PRESS RELEASES ANNOUNCING THE FORMATION OF THE SALTAIRE SOFTBALL LEAGUE IN 1971. CO AUTHORS JOH AND TIGER.

click to enlarge these historic documents

copyright JOH 2008




Auction Sale, 1928

Here is a bit of useless trivia: in this 1928 Auction Announcement, under "What Saltaire Boasts Of" it lists "Its excellent stores which supply groceries, vegetables," etc etc. The 1922 Aution announcement has the same general description of "What Saltaire Offers," but it refers to the stores as a "Cooperative Store." So some time between 1922 and 1928 the Grocery store was privatized.
Click pix to enlarge

Images courtesy of Frank Mina.



Hey, you want to buy land in Saltaire in 1928???? Quick, buy it now because Robert Moses is going to run a Boulevard down the middle of the island soon! Build now so that in ten years your home can be washed away in the storm of the century!

Auction Sale, 1922



Click to enlarge


Image Courtesy of Larry Lynch

Thursday, April 17, 2008

1914 PROMOTONAL BROCHURE



CLICK PHOTO TO ENLARGE. IMAGE COURTESY OF LARRY LYNCH

Wednesday, April 9, 2008

More Treasures from the Lens of Bill Weinlandt



Click to enlarge
Copyright Jeff Weinlandt 2008

Memo to PW: How could B.W. take pictures like this with just one arm?


Hey Phil Keane: did you have a broken arm in the summer of 1961???.

We all remember Blervin's (Although the precise year eludes me. We were playing speed ball, an Uncle Pete variant of soccer. J.O. was counselor and officiating. As we were runing forward with the ball somebody clipped Blervin from behind. As he fell, his elbow hit the turf but his hand was on top of the soccer ball and his forearm snapped in two. "Crack." I still hear that sound. Norma and Capt. Al took him over to Bayshore in an emergency run of the Islander.) The injury never set Bill back. He went on to be a great guitarist and photog.

At any rate, speaking of broken arms, who is that kid with a broken arm in the above 1961 Bill Weinlandt Photo? Looks like Phil, but I don't remember any "cracking" sound from his arm.



What say you, Phil?

As for the rest of the kids in the picture, I'm not telling.


JOH


Phil, another talented photog, responds:
"That might be me. Just not as good lookin as I remember. I broke my arm the same summer the Slip n' Slide came out. By the end of the summer my cast was just pulp. I broke it on the mainland, bicycle racing. " --Phil Keane Jr.

Monday, April 7, 2008

Friday, April 4, 2008

TREASURES FROM THE WEINLANDT ARCHIVES

BILL WEINLANDT OFTEN HAD A CAMERA AND A LIGHT METER AT SALTAIRE EVENTS IN THE 1950s and 1960's.

We have already posted that great beach scene a couple days ago and another picture of two unknown kids at the Club, and now here are two groups of three. Names you will know
Name 'em. Thanks Jeff, Priscilla and Danny for lending some of your Dad's great camera work to saltaire38.blogspot.com

Click to enlarge copyright Jeff Weinlandt 2008
STACEY PIPER. PRISILLA WEINLANDT, AND ANITA WILSON
We won't reveal the year of this photo


But these three boys were photographed in 1956

copyright Jeff Weinlandt 2008


Thursday, April 3, 2008

The Trip to Saltaire in the 1960's

A Common Sight on the way across the Bay.

The following notes in italics were added by editors, not by Cosmo:

Contributor Beaver recalls

Robin Torrey and his family were one of the most memorable and beloved families that has passed through my life - either in Saltaire or across the bay in America. From the first time my family met the Torrey's(when their rented boat sank in a storm one night in '58 or '59) till the last time I saw Robin at one of my parents memorial service @ St Andrews.

Seeing Cosmo's posting of the GSB clammer reminded me of the summers that Robin was going to strike it rich digging clams. Early mornings when Capt Al would run the Islander across the bay we'd see over 100 clam boats plying the waters of the bay in search of clams. We'd leave Bayshore at around 10:20am for the trip back to Saltaire arriving around 10:45-11:00(depending on whether we'd have to stop @ Kismet). Entering the Saltaire marina we'd normally encounter Robin who, half asleep, would be heading north to the clamming grounds off Bayshore to ply his chosen trade. He'd normally be sitting in the boat strumming his guitar and steering the boat with his feet. Skinner's normal comment would be "look at that God Damn guy - any clammer worth his salt would have his day's pay dug by now and be on his way in - and what's he expecting to do with that guitar - serenade the clams to the surface and scap them in with a net?" Whenever I see the reruns of Forrest Gump on his shrimp boat and the guy says to him "if you caught a few more shrimp you could have a shrimp cocktail" I think of Robin.

JOH responds: Beaver: Your writing is improving. You end with "I think of Robin." Is that like "I think of Dean Moriarty?? (click "comments" below for the exact quote)

April 8: More on the history of Clamming in the Bay from the Beaver:

Here goes -

Clamming on Great South Bay

Clamming and the shellfish trade in general(oysters/scallops) was a major industry on the Great South Bay until the early 1970's when the industry essentially collapsed. The reasons for the collapse can generally be attributed to pollution(run-off from commercial/residential land on the south shore), the brown tide(algae), and lack of sufficient flushing of the bay eco-system by water flow from the ocean.

The South Shore of LI was through the early 1900's one of the prime area's for harvesting oysters(the famous Blue Point Oyster for example). That industry, as a result of pollution, had largely collapsed by the end of WWII. Up until the early 1970's the waters of Great South Bay provided upwards of 700,000 bushels of hard clams which in turn supplied over 50% of the nationwide demand for these tasty bi-valves. Through the mid to late 60's it was not uncommon to see upwards of 100 clammers working the waters off of BayShore. A competent clammer, if I remember Capt Al's teachings, could harvest at least five to six bushels of clams a day. I think little neck and/or cherrystones would bring $10-15 or more a bushel in those days. It was a great way for High School and College kids to make a buck during the summer - although backbreaking work for those that did it year round in any sort of weather. Trucks from the city fish markets would line up on the end of Maple Avenue early each afternoon to buy the "catch" as the clammers came in

Clamming is essentially a forgotten pastime for VOS residents today. Many of the newer residents of the village wouldn't know what a clam was if you threw one at them and hit them in the head with it. I'm sure today you could convince these same people that clams are caught by using fishing poles with shiners as bait. As youths it was common to wade into the shallow waters nearly anywhere off the bay beach or Coffey Point and within a short time have "treaded" enough clams to make either clams on the half shell, clams casino, baked clams, or clam chowder. Also common, in Clam Pond Cove were succulent scallops. I remember every Fall Mrs. Torrey basically sweeping the bay bottom of the cove "clean" of scallops which she then shucked, put in Tupperware containers and then froze - providing the meatless Friday fare to Father Torrey, the Clam King(Robin), Kenny, Raymond, Brucie, and herself. In actual fact maybe it wasn't the pollution that led to the demise of scalloping in the Cove - maybe it was Mrs. Torrey.

Thanx, Beav. More comments below. Add your own, everybody

The Gateway to Saltaire.Awaiting the Flyer at the Bay Shore Dock.

From Beaver's History of the Bay, (continued)

The Fire Island Flyer actually was NOT a rumrunner in the true sense of the word. She was built in the Consolidated Shipyard somewhere in NJ with the intent for her to run rum - I remember Capt Al, a rumrunner himself, saying that she was supposed to be the "Queen of the Rumrunners" - She was 65' long and was supposed to have 3 Liberty airplane engines(about 400hp apiece). She would have been quite fast for her time - however Prohibition was repealed before she ever ran a case of rum. Capt Patterson bought the hull in the late 40's early 50's, turned her into a ferry and the rest is history. I believe they sunk her in the vicinity of Jones Inlet(also the resting place for the Fire Islander) as a fishing reef. I think though that she "broke up" after being sunk.

--Beaver

Beaver adds:

"I know that Derf has expressed affection for both the water Taxi Socks and the original Fire Island Flyer"

The Socks had, originally, been a 38' Chris Craft commuter(an original restored sister ship used to anchor off of the lighthouse dock in the early 60's). Socks was at some point converted to a water taxi. She was owned by Dick Gunther who purchased her after his original water taxi lapstreak skiff was rammed and sunk one night off West Island by some drunk in a boat coming out of Kismet. Next Socks sstory - I remember getting so drunk at Gils one night with John Glascock that we couldn't find our car and ended up sleeping on the Socks. Anyway, after Gunther gave up the taxi business she was purchased by some guy named Frank "Monkey" Mina. He extensively refurbished her and in the years he owned her probably never took her out on the bay. When Frank eventually sold it the boat left the greater Bay Shore area. Eventually a former F.I. Ferries captain named Will Brogan purchased her. At some point in the past 15 years she changed hands again and according to Frank Mina she is somewhere out in eastern Long Island.

The Fire Island Flyer - During the time that I worked as a feryboat captain I had three memorable trips on the Flyer
  1. One Sunday afternoon coming out of I think Fair Harbor I was diverted to Kismet to pick up an overflow crowd that the main boat couldn't handle. The old wooden boats weren't the dependable marvels that the new steel boats are today. The center engine was a "pusher" - no gear box so you'd shut it down approaching a dock the port and starboard engines had throttles that had what they call "stops" on them - essentially the stop was a pin installed in the throttle assembly that prevented you from pulling the throttle back past the stop thus stalling the engine. Well, unbekwonst to me no one told me that the stops were broken. As I approached the dock I pulled the throttles back(unwittingly past the stops), the engines all stalled and "Baboom" I hit the dock hard splintering and breaking a hole in the "gunnel" on the port side. Shaken, by this crash I had to have Capt Patterson, who sitting on the porch of his house in Kismet, had witnessed the crash landing of The Flyer. Beaver later added to this story: " After I slammed the Flyer into the dock that day, I was too shaky to run the boat on my own and Capt. Patterson ran it back to Bay Shore for me".
  2. One extremely foggy saturday morning I was taking a trip out of Saltaire/Kismet - at the time the radar sets on the ferries were less than dependable(i.e. most of the time they were broken). I didn't realize it at the time but the deckhand had placed a metal squeegee behind the compass so that when I pulled out of Kismet the compass disk just started spinning like a record on a record player. I was immediately lost in "pea soup" fog. Not knowing where I was, other than somewhere immediately north of Kismet, I ran hard aground on Farm Shoals. At that point I noticed the squeegee, removed it and the compass stopped spinning. Much to my surprise I was able to extract the boat off Farm Shoal and then proceeded to Bay Shore.
  3. Fire on the Fire Island Flyer - one sunday afternoon I ran a trip out of Ocean Beach - it was a full boat(117 people +2 deckhands). While running down the east way I smelled burning wood, I noticed an inordinate amount of smoke emanating from the center "dry" exhaust(which vented through the top of the cabin midship). I sent the deckhand to check, coining the old adage that "where there's smoke there's usually fire" he came back to inform me that yes the boat was on fire. I asked him to very quietly take the fire extinguishers(being carefull to not alarm the 117 passengers and causing a replay of the General Slocum tragedy) and attempt to extinguish the fire. This was done, I shut down the center engine and eventually got to bayshore with none of the passengers any much the wiser.

Running those old wooden boats was much more of an adventure than the current steel boats. Talking with George Hafele (the recently retired president of FIFI) he said "Gee Beav, it's not the same today as running the boats when you worked here, today they won't let you run them while you're drunk"

Looks like Derf is not the only Flyer Lover...Cosmo O describes this trip across the bay.

I recall a Friday afternoon in September or October. I was late and missed the One o'clock and the next ferry wasn't scheduled to leave until 4:30. Resigned to a long wait I retired to the bar at Porgie's for a few beers. Shortly thereafter, Warren (whose last name I do not recall) walked in and said hello. I described my predicament and he said that he was going across for a scheduled run back from FI, and offered to take me across. I grabbed a couple of extra beers and the two of us took off on the Fire Island Flyer. We were having a grand old time in that little wheelhouse, drinking beers and whatnot.....Well it turned out that there were storm conditions on the Bay. The winds had to be blowing in excess of 40 mph and the waves were quite large. The Flyer would rock all the way back and forth, with the gunnels hitting the water on either side. The only way I could stand without being thrown to the deck was to stand in the little wheelhouse with my hands pressed against the walls. Warren mentioned that his only worry was the Flyer getting either caught between two waves or on top of a wave, which he claimed could cause the boat to twist in two pieces and quickly sink to the bottom.

We made it to Fair Harbor and picked up a group of passengers and proceeded to Saltaire. Warren told me to get up on the bow and jump on to the dock when he got close enough. I successfully made it on to the dock and Warren left for Bay Shore. I don't think he found out until he was half way to Bay Shore that there were about a dozen people on the Saltaire dock waiting to return to the Mainland he had left behind. They asked me when I got off what was going on, but I just shrugged and walked off.

Our resident Fire Island Ferry expert, Beaver responds:

Cosmo it could only have been Warren Bonavia, the old Flyer was Warren's favorite boat.

The best Warren Bonavia story I recall is as follows - Warren was running the old Firebird to Fair Harbor one Friday night - I don't remember if I was going to the beach or coming back but..........we're tied up by the spring line to the slip in FH - there's two people that were saying goodbye (one going and one staying) - the one staying couldn't tear themselves away from the person leaving - Warren yells "last call all aboard those that are leaving all ashore those that are staying" He's now running late and he tells the deckhand to shut the gate. He throws the engines into reverse and starts to pull away from the dock. The guy that had been saying goodbye to his friend is still on the boat. He yells to Warren "What am I supposed to do now, how can I get back to Fair Harbor?" Warren responds "For all I care you can jump overboard and swim to FH" At which point Mel Brooks, who's in a seat up forward ,stands on top of his seat, starts waving his arms in the air and screaming "Jump! Jump!" At Mel's prompting the people on the boat start yelling "Jump Jump" The guy is getting antsy by this point and he asks Warren what should he do to which Bonavia responds "I don't care if you swim back to Fair Harbor we're going to Bay Shore" The guy puts his glasses on the deck and jumps overboard to the cheers of Mel Brooks and the crowd, He's in the water and yells to Warren "Hey, what about my glasses" Warren picks them up, throws them in the guys direction and says, "Here Catch"



The Saltaire Market c. 1960

JOH:

Thanks, Cosmo for Great Pictures that started great postings, particularly from Beaver.

More postings on this subject or any others always welcome at Saltaire38.blogspot.com.

Tuesday, April 1, 2008

SALTAIRE IN FIVE YEARS?

Saltaire in Five Years?
Springfield Oceanographic Institute Cmposite





Springfield
Oceanographic Institute Study Currently Under Peer Review Finds Cause for “Grave Concern”



First Posted April 1, 2008



DISAPPEARANCE OF ISLANDS IN JAMAICA BAY IN QUEENS IS LINKED TO SIMILAR RAPIDLY DEVELOPING THREAT TO A FIRE ISLAND COMMUNITY

by Tom Quinn, SAP Science Reporter

Fire Island, New York:



Researchers from the Springfield Oceanographic Institute predict that more than half of a summer community on Fire Island, New York, will likely be reduced to sinking marsh land within five years, and completely underwater within ten years.





SAP has obtained a draft copy of a study scheduled for publication in the Fall 2008 issue of the "Journal of the Springfield Oceanographic Institute." The draft copy has been distributed to several hundred geologists worldwide as part of a rigid peer review process and it has not been distributed publicly.
Springfield Oceanographic Institute has declined to comment on the report and a spokesman indicated that there will be no announcement or comment until the peer review process is complete and the article is published in October, 2008.






The SAP science desk was able to obtain a copy of the report by a researcher at a local University who was alarmed that the report is being witheld until the Fall. The researcher, who insisted on anonymoty felt that the issue is of such "grave concern" to oceanographers that the results should be released immediately, and that it is not expected that the peer review process will necessitate any substantive changes in the report or its conclusions.





Background



After local authorities had expressed concern that a marsh on the eastern side of a Fire Island (New York) community had been encroaching into residential areas of the Village of Saltaire in recent years, a study was quietly undertaken by the Springfield Institute. Extensive testing and sampling taken over the 2007-2008 winter months concluded that virtually the entire western half of Saltaire, except for a 500 foot wide area swath closest to the Atlantic Ocean will be completely inundated by water within five to ten years.




“These findings are stunning, but they are not surprising,” Professor John Cracktinkle of the Springfield Institute states in the report's Executive Summary. “We found that the cause of increased flooding in Saltaire emanating from a cove on the east side of the Village known as Clam Cove has nothing to do with what locals commonly supposed." Local authorities had assumed that increased flooding in recent years was caused by the disappearance of a protective sand spit on the east side of the cove known as “Coffey Point,” which had gradually disappeared over the past 25 years. “The disappearance of Clam Cove/Dogfish Island is not the cause of the problem. It is part of the same problem that is now threatening the entire Village." according to the Executive Sumary, "...nor are high tides, northeaster storms, global warning, or other weather conditions causitive. This is a geological defect in the foundation on the North, or Bay side of the barrier beach at Saltaire."



No Danger to other parts of Fire Island Seen



The Cracktinkle report concluded that that there is no danger to any other part of Fire Island, a thirty two mile long and half mile wide barrier beach on the south shore of Long Island. The problem lies in the fact that Fire Island at Saltaire is twice as wide as the rest of the Island, and the threatened part of Saltaire does not rest on the same geological ridge that lies beneath the rest of the Island.





The report noted that Fire Island lies atop an east-west ridge on the ocean floor. However, the report found that the wide part of the island at Saltaire, running from Ocean Promenade north to the Great South Bay, does not rest on the ridge, and relies soley on a subterranean bog for support. Springfield Institute researchers determined that underlying bog is rapidly becoming saturated by sea water leeching beneath the surface "from all directions except the South" "An aquified bog provides no surface support, and the leeching process is irreversible. Once that underlayer becomes saturated, the surface has no support, and it will sink lower and lower toward the bay bottom.” The threatened area consists of more than half of Saltaire.





"The subsurface beneath the north half of Saltaire will not support land above sea level indefinitely, and once it starts sinking there is virtually nothing that be done to stop it. Subterranean water is in the process of leeching into the vulnerable marshy foundation,” said Dr. Cracktinkle in the Executive Summary.




The summary concludes that within several years the entire northern half of Saltaire will be a “mushy quicksand. " Building foundations will shift and give way. In two more years it will be marsh land, and five years or less after that “the whole area will be under water."



It will be impossible to prevent the area's return to the bay floor sea, or to rebuild: “This is not like Venice, or Holland, or even New Orleans, all of which have firm foundations several feet below sea level on which to build upon. There is no firm foundation at the bottom of the Great South Bay unless you go down 35-40 feet. ” said the Cracktinkle Report. .



Click to enlarge Springfield Oceanographic Institute






Situation Similar to Jamaica Bay Marsh Disappearance






“This is not a unique occurrence on the bay sides of barrier beaches” according to the Cracktinkle report, citing the possible "disappearance within five years of most of the marshes and islands in Jamaica Bay, in Queens, some 25 miles west of Saltaire." http://www.nytimes.com/2007/08/02/nyregion/02marsh.html?_r=1&fta=y&oref=slogin "And we have recently seen the disappearance, within three years of a 40 mile stretch of bay front at Yourmo Linda, on the western coast of Baja California." Similar bay beach and marsh disappearances have been documented in the British West Indies and along the sandy coast of northern Australia. “In Baja California, the size of the phenomenon was much larger. The drop-off from the Baja California plateau to the Bay floor was much steeper that it is from the Fire Island Plateau to the Great South Bay floor. But the relatively small size of the Saltaire area makes it inevitable that the area's return to the bay bottom will be complete and “very quick -- a couple of years-- .- a nano second in geological time” said Dr. Cracktinkle.








In a small footnote, the Report predicts that as the endangered areas on the western side of the Village disintegrate, the underlying sand will be drawn into the Great South Bay and carried eastward by the Bay’s littoral drift. “Many thousands of cubic yards of sand will be deposited on what was the eastern perimeter of Clam Pond Cove. This will build up and cause the reemergence of a small island (referred to in the report as “Dogfish” Island) which had disappeared in recent years. Ironically, it was the disappearance of that small island, along with the disappearance of the entire “Coffey Point” sand spit, that authorities had suspected to be the cause of recent Village flooding. The Cracktinkle report debunks that theory, and concludes that neither the Coffey Point spit nor the Village proper will ever reemerge because of the absence of a solid subterranean foundation. However, "Dogfish Island," several hundred feet south of the former Coffey Point, “lies firmly on the Fire Island geological ridge” and it will remerge as a stable bay island with a strong subterranean foundation,:” according to footnote # 373 in the report.

VILLAGE GEARS UP FOR TICK ELIMINATION PLAN


Village to take a Whack at Lyme and other Tick Borne Diseases:

There being a direct relationship between the size of the deer herd in Saltaire and tick borne illnesses like Lyme disease, erlichiosis, and babesiosis the village this year intends to take a dead aim with blunt instruments at the tick’s hosts.

Over the past 20 years the Village has utilized different methods to reduce the tick population by controlling the size of the deer herd, including immuno-contraception where female deer are darted and injected with birth control drugs. This program has been only partially effective. These drugs have also had an adverse behavioral impact on male hornless deer mistakenly darted that then become dangerously “hornless no more,
even towards humans.

Since ticks present serious threats to the health and happiness of the deer population, the Village has determined that the best way to destroy the tick vector is to destroy the deer.

Hunting is not practical in the Village given the close proximity of residences and the year round presence of citizens. Accordingly, the Village has quietly retained a professional deer slayer who will humanely dispatch the animals using a blunt instrument such as a monkey wrench.. Done efficiently, the procedure is quick and painless, and venison from culled animals will be donated to needy Fire Island contractors and retired ferry boat captains. If quantities are sufficient, the deer meat could be marketed at the Village Cooperative Grocery.

The elimination of the tick vectors (the deer) will also have a beneficial effect for homeowners with flower and vegetable gardens, and exterminating the deer will reduce the possibility of collisions between deer and the vehicles of the Village Security force . This will help reduce the Village’s insurance premiums.
The Village expects the elimination program to be concluded before Memorial Day weekend.

Do You See A Bunny in this Photo?



Did someone mention Mark Twain? Seems our pal Jim has long been a fan. Here he is pictured with his invisible friend Harvey at the Saltaire Yacht Club Children's Masquerade Dance in 1956. JOH being all of 10 at the time. Note: If you can see Harvey in the photo you may have spent too much time at “the club”.


For Jim, from Jeff Weinlandt with a little help from derf (and jim, you had better not take this down)