Where Were You 60 Years Ago ?
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- Alan Brookes
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Where Were You 60 Years Ago ?
The response to the 45 yrs. ago was so interesting that I thought I'd up the ante.
To start off, 60 years ago I was being carried around by my mother, who had to travel into town on a tram/streetcar and do the shopping for the family. Nowadays I can't imagine half a dozen bags of shopping and a baby on public transit !
To start off, 60 years ago I was being carried around by my mother, who had to travel into town on a tram/streetcar and do the shopping for the family. Nowadays I can't imagine half a dozen bags of shopping and a baby on public transit !
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WHERE was 'I'?
I was in the 5th grade at JV Beach elementary school in Portland, OR. I was chief operator of the school's entire visual aid department and also appeared over Portland's Radio KBPS, at Benson Polytechnic High School. I was a Sgt. on the Safety Patrol.
This was the year I first laid eyes on the love of my life who later became #1 and the mother of our 4 children.
Late at night, my mother and I would spend listening to the powerful country music station in Del Rio, Texas; and a like station in Seattle, WA.
On weekends, we'd listen to Hawaii Calls. I most likely had my Gibson lap steel with matching amp by this time. Roy Wiggens was my first steel attraction and who played a prominent steel guitar with Eddy Arnold.
This was the year I first laid eyes on the love of my life who later became #1 and the mother of our 4 children.
Late at night, my mother and I would spend listening to the powerful country music station in Del Rio, Texas; and a like station in Seattle, WA.
On weekends, we'd listen to Hawaii Calls. I most likely had my Gibson lap steel with matching amp by this time. Roy Wiggens was my first steel attraction and who played a prominent steel guitar with Eddy Arnold.
60 Years Ago
I was not even thought of yet. My parents liked 2 years getting married. I was born in January 1960 which means I was 13 years in the future. This should be an interesting topic.
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60 years ago
I was most likely in my crib or in mama's arms, in Conway, SC where I was born.
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Thanks Alan for continuing this on. I agree that its an interesting thread as it makes you think back to hopefully good memories. I was 4 years old living in Picher, Oklahoma and my Dad was working in the lead & zinc mines. Now 60 years later, they're trying to close the entire town down because of lead contamination. My older brother & sisters & I were playing on chat piles that were as big as mountains. Now the chat piles are mostly gone and nothing left but cave-ins and shafts. We were known as "chat rats" As a side note: Picher, Ok. is the home town of Joe Don Rooney of Rascal Flatts and his Dad & Mom still live there. Not my style of music but he is a good guitar player.
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After WWII and Discharge from the Army in 1945. Here is where I was 60 years ago, in Cleveland ,Ohio, playing my D8 Vega and hoping to get a pedal guitar like Alvino Rey had. and I did get one the next year..lucky me. See my picture....al.
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Where were you 60-yrs. ago?
At this time, 60-yrs. ago I was about a month from my 10th. birthday, so; I was probably watching Arthur Godfrey on TV and following his Uke~Instructions on a Sears/Roebuck Uke! Still about another year from my first Steel-Guitar, but; I did have 3½-yrs. of Piano-Instruction behind me! So, I was already well on my way to this ‘No–Man's–Land’ that I'm in today!
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60 years ago...Well, I auditioned my Hawaiian show at local radio station CKUA when I was 18 years old. The show stayed on the air (weekly) for 4 years until Elvis changed musical tastes forever. Those were the days when radio stations actually promoted live talent. I joined the AFM a few years earlier and of course, am now a Life Member.
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I was on Guam,5th service depot FMF USMC .Just got my 1st stripe.Wishin to hell I was home.Missin Mom's biscuits and home made bread.Mostly missin the girl accross the street.
Gettin drunk and playin my reso guitar{that I bought for $7.00 at a Hollywood hock shop}with my buddies.Wish I was 17 again.
Wish I would have brought that guitar home with me.Oh well, ya know the sayin,wish in one hand and.................PJ
Gettin drunk and playin my reso guitar{that I bought for $7.00 at a Hollywood hock shop}with my buddies.Wish I was 17 again.
Wish I would have brought that guitar home with me.Oh well, ya know the sayin,wish in one hand and.................PJ
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I was 14 years old, not that smart in school, being raised on a working ranch, trying to learn how to make C, F, and G chords on a beat up Stella guitar, and little realizing how lucky I was. Little did I know that the next year, 1948, would bring me in touch with one of the best Western Swing bands in Texas, Hoyle Nix and the West Texas Cowboys. Wow, what a learning curve, thanks to many folks here in this town. My beginnings in the music world.
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60 years ago
60 years ago I started taking lessons to play steel guitar using an acoustic guitar with a raised bridge and a flat slide bar. What a trip. Took lessons from the Hawaiian Conservatory of Music in Oakland, CA. After about a year of that I got me a high class Supro 6 string electric. Ah, memories.
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60 years ago , I was 12 yrs old and had my first electric steel which was a 6 string Rickenbacher and my amp was a little 2 or 3 tube Regal, i believe. I played with the Oklahoma Hillbillies and remember that a $5.00 gig was pretty good and a 10- to 15 dollar gig was Dang good!!! "Take it away, Leon" Mcauliffe with Bob Wills was my inspiration and idol. He gave me a signed record of "Faded Love" which i still have , framed, and hangin on the wall.
Wouldn't take a million for all the memmories and experiences!!!
Jack Ritter
Enid, Okla.
Wouldn't take a million for all the memmories and experiences!!!
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Wow, sixty years ago. Let me see. Probably cooling my butt in a pail of cool water after mom wailed away at me for doing something stupid again. I do know that I had my first Marine Band hormonica by then (I was 7 by then). Dad was still healing from his wounds from WWII Holland.
We still made our own butter, bread and had our own chickens.
That was a long time ago and in a completley different world..
We still made our own butter, bread and had our own chickens.
That was a long time ago and in a completley different world..
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Sixty years ago? I was in the second grade in El Centro, California and wasn't pickin' anything yet, just peddling around on my little bicycle every chance I got. Dang, I didn't realize how much of an "old dude" I was..........JH in Va.
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