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Bean
Still Hangin' At The Mailbox
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 Posted - March 31 2004 : 4:24:12 PM
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I Love you my Bro...
you will always be My MainMan...
your Main make that Pain...Bean
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Edited by - Bean on March 31 2004 4:24:56 PM
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richfed
Into the 60's
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Posted - April 01 2004 : 05:57:06 AM
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Oh, yeah ... great ...
Thanks for reminding me that I am an even older fogey than I thought. |
Rich
What a long, strange trip it's been! |
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Bean
Still Hangin' At The Mailbox
USA
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Posted - April 01 2004 : 06:45:55 AM
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 Did the walking cane I sent you ever arrive?  |
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Bean
Still Hangin' At The Mailbox
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Posted - April 01 2004 : 06:48:56 AM
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doc
Into the 60's
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Posted - March 04 2005 : 5:20:21 PM
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And once again, a belated happy birthday old man!
I still remember the neighborhood birthday parties in the 50's and early sixties.
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Bean
Still Hangin' At The Mailbox
USA
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Posted - March 05 2005 : 07:46:58 AM
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Thanks for reminding me Doc, I always think Richies birthday is in April not March. Somebody's birthday in VS was in early April, was it Ronnies?
Happy Birthday Richie, let us all know how you are doing every once in a while.
I wish we could go back to the 50's and 60's in our old neighborhood. We just sold my parents house on Sobro 2 weeks ago, was it ever weird leaving it for the last time on the day of the closing??? Now the only ties I have back to Valley Stream, are Foch still living at his parents house on Everette St. and if I go over to visit Karen and Michael.
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lucy in the sky
Still A Babe
USA
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Posted - May 18 2005 : 12:01:53 AM
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| ..it is a strange feeling...growing up in a town, years of many assorted memories and then finding your connections and ties are all gone...i just returned from the valley...drove past my parents old house on north cottage , past memorial, central (even wheelier avenue) trying to evoke memories and flashbsacks of days gone by...the club bar is still on rockaway avenue (first hangout after central), the nite cap had become harper's,the walk in became terry o's, a place called the Public house on sunrise, the Trees Lounge owned by diianne mitchells' Mother in the 60's maybe.(the one steve buscemi did a movie about), another bar up rockaway past sunrise on right hand side (coakley's?),....this is beginning to sound lke my only memeories of VS were bars! Actually i think that became my only memory of New paltz when i moved back there in 75 as well! |
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Bean
Still Hangin' At The Mailbox
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Posted - May 18 2005 : 12:35:31 AM
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I know the feeling Lucy...driving through Valley Stream now really makes me sad and I get such an empty feeling....
"We had our good time pal
but nothing lasts forever "...Ray Davies |
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lucy in the sky
Still A Babe
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Posted - May 22 2005 : 09:08:28 AM
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| ...."those were the days my friend, we thought they'd never end, we'd sing and dance forever and a day".....those words from that song just brought me back to maybe '69 and the Westwood Inn (there i go again...only bars!!!!)..remember the blizzard of '69 and the big black-out (1967)....what Was the name of that song and who sung it? How about the Action House on Long Beach Road? I remember seeing Edgar winter there and my first experience smoking angel dust .....(1970'ish). It's funny...in high school i wanted so much to fit in....pledging for sorority, getting inducted, having a steady boyfriend. blah, blah, blah.....then i graduate, go to work for the dime savings bank (i went to my first "real" job interview in a pleated skirt, penny loafers & knee socks!!! After i got hired and made some friends they all told me how they laughed at my attire and made fun of me! After high school I never wanted to fit in....the people i worked with at the bank all seemed so robotic and set in their ways. i loved ruffling everyone''s feathers on our breaks in the coffee lounge. It was a time when people really believed if you smoked a joint you were going to go home and murder & dismember your mother! If a male sported long hair, they were bad, probably drug addicts....homosexuality was the devil's work, hippies ought to be done away with, you were really judged by your clothing and length of hair. Even wearing patchouli oil meant you were "one of them".... |
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Bean
Still Hangin' At The Mailbox
USA
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Posted - May 22 2005 : 3:09:54 PM
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Mary Hopkins " Those were the days " is that the song you are talking about? Released on the Beatles Apple label.
I Loved the Action House, almost played there once. Humble Pie use to rock that place, my ears have never been the same. Mountain and The Vanilla Fudge too, later Twisted Sister.
" strange days " Jim Morisson, but I agree Lucy.
" I'd go back if I could only find a way "..Ray Davies |
" You're a misfit
Afraid of yourself so you run away and hide
You've been a misfit all your life
But why don't you join the crowd and come inside
You wander round this town
Like you've lost your way
You had your chance in your day
Yet you threw it all away
Now you're lost in the crowd
Yet, still go your own way "
--Ray Davies
" They'll move me up to Muswell Hill tomorrow,
Photographs and souvenirs are all I've got,
They're gonna try and make me change my way of living,
But they'll never make me something that I'm not.
They're putting us in little boxes,
No character just uniformity,
They're trying to build a computerised community,
But they'll never make a zombie out of me. "
--Ray Davies
" The days go by and you wish you were a different guy,
Different friends and a new set of clothes.
You make alterations and affect a new pose,
A new house, a new car, a new job, a new nose.
But it's superficial and it's only skin deep,
Because the voices in your head keep shouting in your sleep.
Get back, get back. "
--Ray Davies
" I've just had a dream that I never will forget.
And I wish I could erase.
I was standing on the street with a whole crowd of people
And no one knew my name.
And I was just another face
No one looked at me or touched me
Spoke to or acknowledged me.
I had no identity or individuality
No thoughts of my own, no mind or personality.
I was just a no one, a total nonentity "
-- Ray Davies
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lucy in the sky
Still A Babe
USA
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Posted - May 24 2005 : 06:44:24 AM
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| ....great lyrics...have to re-read when i'm more "wakey wakey"...another shot of caffein might help |
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Bean
Still Hangin' At The Mailbox
USA
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Posted - May 24 2005 : 11:57:22 PM
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Better yet Lucy...get a few kinks CD's....Muswell Hillbillies, Misfits, U.K. Jive,
God Save the KinKs !
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Happy Belated Birthday Richie ! March 2nd !!!
