After Bebop A Lula: Utica Bands 50's 60's

[jon hynes]

This was Guy Vivenzo's father's place

[jon hynes]

1979

[kim]

Sunrise Lounge in Frankfort? Oh boy. Did I spend some time there or what? Of course, the time I spent there was in the early 90's, but still, I spent way too much time there listening to a certain band. I have a lot of memories of that place. Most of them foggy. LOL!

[jon hynes]

YORKVILLE - Fire distroyed the Dolphin Inn here today, causing an estimated $75,000 - $80,000 damage.

No one was reported injured. The building at Main and Whitesboro Sts., was unoccupied, at the time.

Six men that rented second and third floor apartments in the three story wood and tile building were made homeless.

The preliminary damage estimate was givin by Frank L. Inserra, of 81 Prostpect St., Utica co-owner of the inn, which was formally Thomson's Hotel.

Volunteer firemen from Yorkville, New York Mills and Whitesboro battled the blaze. The Utica Aerial lader truck was there.

09/19/62

[wilum47]

Sept 15, 2008 19:29:30 GMT -5 jon hynes said:

Observer Dispatch Friday, Oct. 16,1987

The Sunrise Lounge, Route 5, Frankfort, presents the Country Cousins at 9:30 tonight and tomorrow night.

Beginning at 2 p.m. Sunday, the Sunrise will present a benefit jamboree for Donny Shepherdson the drummer for the Alligators.

Performing will be, The Moonlighters, Tim O'Shey and the Echos of Time. Johnny Rod, Sonny Dee and the Dominos, Gary Hunt Band, E-Z Rock, and the SS&B Co. The Country Cousins will be the host band. There will be a cover charge.

Perhaps Wilum47 can help. He was there with SS&B Co.

Dan in Reply #78 was asking about the Alligators.

I remember that particular benefit because I played with Gary Hunt for old times sake and with SSB.

I only remember the Alligators were on rotation with us at Sunrise after the Country Cousins broke up a few years later. They ended up on Friday and Saturday nights and we did Sundays (bad for Mondays eh Jon?) for a while.

[wilum47]

Sept 15, 2008 21:40:31 GMT -5 jon hynes said:

Oh Boy does that bring back foggy memories! Very Foggy memories.

Some woman tried to pick me up one time ON STAGE! and of course I'm getting all the help in the world with my three buddies encouraging her and the wife laughing her as$$ off.

[Clipper]

I remember Paul Besig's Rhythm Air Country well. The storm door on the bar room entrance was a donation from Clipper in his drinking days, after I threw a local logger through it, and then kicked his ass in the parking lot. It cost me $60 which was quite a bit of money in the early 70's for an aluminum storm door from Grossman's.

I also replaced a room divider in the old Black Dahlia once, under similar circumstances.

I am damn sure glad that age brought discretion, and recovery. I am glad that I mellowed in my old age. My temper was a result of my drinking. When I quit drinking, I became a docile and agreeable ( well a little more agreeable anyhow) individual, haha. I think that when I went into rehab, they made me surrender my "beer muscles" at the door, and they didn't give them back when I left, haha.

[wilum47]

Sept 17, 2008 10:35:54 GMT -5 Clipper said:

When I quit drinking, I became a docile and agreeable ( well a little more agreeable anyhow) individual, haha.

[Clipper]

Okay willum, you are right! Maybe docile and agreeable are a little over the top, hahahaha! How about tolerable, and not quite so volatile??

[dgriffin]

Sept 14, 2008 16:29:14 GMT -5 jon hynes said:

This was the last time I saw Jim perform. I sure was impressed with the total show. Jim doing it all.

John, what year was that? I ran into Jimmy in Booth Bay Harbor playing his one-man band thing in 1975 or 76. (I've mentioned this elsewhere, but I don't remember which thread or even if here or at JoeMezz's CNYForum.) I saw his marquee in Bath a year or so later. We shared a funny cigarette in the parking lot of the Tidewater in BBay (one of the three in my life) and he told me he lived up the road 20 miles in a town I remember but won't name, played summers on the Maine coast and went to Nashville during winters and worked as a studio musician. I lost track of him before the seventies ended. A google search turns up another musician with the same name. That was hard for me to believe, but a close reading of the guy's web pages convinced me it couldn't be him.

[dgriffin]

Sept 18, 2008 11:29:24 GMT -5 Clipper said:

Okay willum, you are right! Maybe docile and agreeable are a little over the top, hahahaha! How about tolerable, and not quite so volatile??

When I quit drinking, I got a lot smarter, and then insufferable, but eventually perfect!

Just ask my wife. When she stops laughing.

[dgriffin]

Sept 12, 2008 22:44:34 GMT -5 jon hynes said:

I expect you can tell Fulton History has been down for two or more days. It doesn't look good!. He's been hacked before and got totally wiped out. I've been using his site since he started up, for my Genealogy research.

Didn't know it till I just read this, but it seems to be working tonight, Sunday, 9/20. I would really miss that site.

[jon hynes]

Jimmy Hanna was at Livingston's Ale House in '71. The same year I bought my brand new bright and shinny red Chevy Vega Truck that rusted away and was put to rest "forever" with less than 10,000 miles on it. Kind of like a year I'll never forget, for more reasons than just this one.

[jon hynes]

Dave in case you missed it . . .

In reply to your question of where the Dolphin Inn was located in post #176. I was mistaken in my original answer and changed the reply to show it was actually in Yorkville where Thomson's had been. The fire took place when the building was the Dolphin not Thomson's which confused me. The building was across from Tripp's on the corner of Whitesboro and Main Street and where the Post Office was built after the fire. The Post Office has recently moved across the Blvd from Holland Farms.

[jon hynes]