Good morning, all! Didn't Catholic schoolkids who didn't turn in their homework claim the "Vatican Ate" it?
And now for my second question: who is SGurey? We keep having these Trivia winners I've never heard of. Why don't they at least jump into the fray instead of lurking? After all the constant BK barrage of bitchslapping threats, some of these lurkers could do more than take hom a damn prize!
Today, I have a jaunt to Toyland and a trip to the NYPL to help Jeremy Megraw with his photo inquiry. I have to write this choral finale which haunted my sleep last night, so that's taking some time as well. I may also run to the Post Office, but it all depends on schedule.
TOD: In the mid 1950s Rogers' Jewelers had a small record store in their shop, and I remember shopping trips there with my Aunt Dorothy. The only record cover I remember looking at is the soundtrack recording of the 1954 animated film of HANSEL AND GRETEL conducted by the great Franz Allers. Later, as malls became popular, Davidson's Photo Shop had a nice record dept., as did Norris Music on First Avenue. Mrs Norris ordered for me the 1954 THREEPENNY OPERA cast recording with Lenya and Jo Sullivan, and I remember purchasing lots of cast albums at Davidson's along with the occasional Gilbert & Sullivan reissues on London's budget label Richmond.
In college, Hossack Jewelers had a record dept run by Mr Hossack's enormously fat and ultra-conservative wife Ruth. Ruth would go to peace marches in Oxford, OH, and ban any participant from her shop. She was an alcoholic and a bigot, but she had one of the finest record collections in the USA at the time: two copies of everything in print except for artists she personally blacklisted: Judy Collins, the Mitchell Trio, the Weavers, etc. I once asked her if she had any Mitchell Trio recordings on Kapp, and her response was "I don't carry them." It wasn't until I knew her better, and worked for her in the summer of 1970, that I learned her reasons. She hired me because she had gotten so huge that she preferred to spend her time in the apartment above the store, and she would spend at leat two or trhree hours a day talking to me over the phone. One day when she was in the store stocking new releases, several black high school students came in (to see me, it turns out, since they had been in the summer theatre production of BYE BYE BIRDIE from a year before). He comment when they came into the store was "keep an eye on them, they'll rob us blind." After they visted with me a bit and left, she apologized for her comment, saying she hadn't realized they were friends of mine. I'm sure in retrospect that was my first fall off my pedestal.
For classical, jazz, spoken word, and performance, Hossack's got calls from all over the country. I would read record reviews at the Miami U Library magazine section -especially the bound volumes of past years - make lists of records I wanted, and Ruth usually had one or two stocked away. It was a wonderful store, and she was quite a character with a quirky sense of humor. I didn't approve of her politics or narrow mind, but I was strangely fond of her and I loved her store. I was lucky the theatre dept kept me too busy for attending peace marches!
