From: IMRud@aol.com
Sent: Friday, June 01, 2001 11:20 AM
To: Clark, Wes
Subject: Re: Beatles party dad

<< Okay, so you should have:

Louis Nye
TV kids
Bing Crosby
Sears gas station
Jimmy's house
Halloween backyard
Halloween group shot
George Putnam
Mid patio
Halloween parade>>

Yup, got 'em all.  Thanks!  Back in '66, it seems to me they used to have the 
Santa Claus Lane Parade twice.  The first go round a full blown thing for TV 
and then a few days later or so, a scaled down version.  Also, back then, the 
parade terminated a block away from the apartment  house where I was living.  
I think that's where some of these photos were taken.  Another parade memory 
is jockeying with the gathered crowd on Hollywood Blvd. for a good spot on 
the sidewalk, or even better, on the street -- as long as you sat behind the 
yellow line! as parade flunkies were always cautioning people.  Blankets and 
large pieces of cardboard would be spread in an effort to stake out space and 
make the cold concrete a bit more bearable.  

Do you remember the large block-like plastic Christmas trees that were 
attached to the light poles on Hollywood Blvd. for the Holidays?  They 
actually used to rotate!  Sort of.  As years went by, they became more and 
more neglected and undependable, kind of teetering uncertainly as they 
turned.  In the final years before they were replaced with more standard but 
less hazardous decorations, they seemed to threatened to tumble down on the 
tourists and shoppers below.

As for my place, my memory is that my bedroom (which I shared with my mom) 
faced your house (as did the bathroom window) and that Kathy's room (which 
she shared with my grandmother) was on the other side of the hall from my 
room and situated more toward the back of the house.  I mentioned to Kathy 
yesterday that we'd made contact again and that you were sending a video tape 
of your birthday party that she was in.  She told me that if you'd like, you 
can drop her an e-mail at work at:  
kathy@normmarshall.com.  I think she'd get a kick out of hearing from you.

I see more photos have arrived, so I'm going to check them out.

Jim